I tried tough love, too. I took her home with me to Tennessee and she stayed 3 1/2 weeks, and we thought she was going to be all right.

They had a drug party, instead. Anna broke her promise. She let drugs separate us forever.

We didn’t grow up in the same house, but we became very close as adults. We often said nothing or nobody was going to keep us apart. We were sisters.

I tell them that drugs can kill, and they do kill. If I save just one person, it’s worth it.

She got pregnant with Christopher and went cold turkey without drugs for more than 20 years.

It was all over Anna telling him to get off drugs or she was leaving him.