FACING RECOVERY Opioid overdoses in Frederick County down in 2019, but struggles continue

Meghan King has been sober for almost four months.

The 32-year-old Baltimore native lives in a sober home in Frederick. She has a sponsor to help guide her through the journey. It is not the first time she has had a sponsor, stayed in a sober home, started on the path of recovery. Nor is it the second time.

She described her journey with opioids as a cycle. She detoxes, stays sober for months, relapses. But this time, she said she hopes that she found a path that will keep her sober.

Maybe this time she is ready to be in recovery for the right reasons. She wants this for herself and for her two sons.

“They say you can’t get clean for somebody else, and you can’t,” King said. “You can’t. You have to want it. And it’s true, because I’ve tried. I have tried over and over and over to get clean and stay clean for somebody else. But the hurt that I have caused them, the pain that I’ve caused them, do I really want to continue to do that? The hurt that I’ve caused myself?”

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