An article in El Popular covers the work of a recovered meth and heroin addict turned drug prevention crusader. Jerry Ortega discovered the Foundation for a Drug-Free World online and he and his entire family have now adopted the program to bring the truth about drugs to kids in Kern County, California, where addiction to meth and heroin is an immense problem. Ortega wants to get to the kids. He shares his own personal experience with them along with the Drug-Free World booklets and videos to give them enough information with enough impact that they can resist the lies of dealers and pressure of their friends.
As the article states, “I turned into someone who has little regard for anyone or anything,” says Ortega, who spent more than a decade hooked on the hardest drugs known to man. “It consumes you. Before it was over, I had allowed my ex-wife to begin selling herself as a prostitute. We did whatever we had to to get heroin.”
Ortega calls Drug Free World “a godsend.” Not just because it can save lives, but because he considers, on a daily basis, it is actually saving his.
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