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Jenkins's Addiction

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Throughout his addiction Jenkins overdosed six different times and is still alive to tell the story.

The first time he overdosed, he waited in the car for his friends to come out of a gas station after just shooting up. A nurse from a nearby hospital, Weirton Medical Center, found him unconscious hanging partially out of the car. They revived him in the parking lot but he faded out again in the ambulance. It was not until he arrived at the hospital that he woke up again.

“I was woken up on the scene and then faded out and did not wake up again until I was taken to Weirton Medical Center, when I woke up I realized that the hospital never checked me when they brought me in because I still had heroin in my pocket” shared Jenkins. Once

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