Nevada Monroe, left, and her mother, Brenda Guymon, say that the Teen Challenge program saved Monroe's life. Before she entered the yearlong, faith-based treatment program, Monroe, now 20, was addicted to the prescription painkiller OxyContin. "You come in that program broken. You hate yourself. You hate the world," Monroe said during an interview. "Now I have hopes and dreams. I know I have a future." The pair was photographed at the PB&J Christian B…
January 26, 2009
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