Renee Graves says she was a different person about a year and a half ago, when she was in the grips of an opioid addiction that left her with several heart infections and a lengthy criminal record, and put her on the streets of Thunder Bay, Ont.
Her story is one of resilience and recovery, but also of how she, like dozens of others in northwestern Ontario, felt travelling several provinces west for treatment was their best option.
Graves, 32, now lives in Victoria but grew up just outside Kakabeka Falls, north of Thunder Bay. Like many of her friends, she said, she started drinking and using drugs in high school.
“There [were] a few of us that
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