Sweet Melissa Ignorance is not Bliss

At 18, I left the love and security of my family for a nightmare of drug addiction and crime.  Homeless, alone and on the streets of Los Angeles, I realized that what I had been searching for was what I had left behind. Strung out on heroin and too ashamed to go back home to my parents, I continued to spiral downwards and I landed head first into a lifestyle that I never knew existed.