Carolyn Krug had never had a true relationship with her sister.

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But when her sister visited her in jail, that began to change. And that's when Carolyn, a longtime drug user who'd started as a preteen, knew she needed to change as well.

It wasn't an easy transition for Carolyn, featured earlier this week in New Jersey 101.5's ongoing look at New Jersey's drug crisis. She'd been using pot from the time she was 12. At 15, she was taking prescription painkillers and synthetic heroin. By the time she was 18, Krug said, she was a “full blown crackhead.”

And she'd been selling drugs — not just to other teens, but to their parents. She'd grown up surrounded by drugs. And she had to learn what adulthood without them meant.

Hear her story above.

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