"One Fact, One Act" is a weekly newsletter that highlights something everyone needs to know, and an action anyone can take to prevent or change unhealthy alcohol or other substance use.
Here's to all the moms out there … those who have had the storybook Motherhood experience and those of us who have not, and the millions of us who fall anywhere on the continuum.
Before long, she was drinking bottles of cough syrup a day. She gained more than 50 pounds. She began to lose her hair. And it spiraled down from there.