She knows ‘success’ in recovery is a lifelong process

She knows ‘success’ in recovery is a lifelong process

For 20 years, Mia Stanley was painfully aware that people dreaded to see her coming. That’s because they knew she was high, and they had no doubt she was going to beg them for money. But her awareness of their feelings never stopped her from doing exactly what they expected because all she really cared about was chasing that next high. She spent two decades addicted to the powerful opioid painkiller oxycodone, and she admits she cared about litt…