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I Started Shooting Heroin as a Teen | Overdosed & Flatlined at 18, Homeless to Sober at 19
This episode of Rise Above with Kevin Lanning is one of the most intense, raw, and powerful stories we’ve ever shared.
Jana began using painkillers at 14 years old, progressed to shooting heroin daily, and by 18 was homeless, blacklisted by drug dealers, and clinically dead after an overdose so severe she left her body.
In this interview, Jana shares:
Growing up in chaos and trauma
Dating dangerous drug dealers as a teenager
Shooting heroin, meth, and crack
A near-death experience where she watched herself turn blue
Being told she had to return to her body
Surviving homelessness, addiction…
The skinny
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