A former drug addict has taken pictures showing her stark and startling transformation since becoming clean.
Dejah Hall, 26, was meth and heroin dependant as well as being addicted to pain medication by the age of 17. She had overdosed and only began to stop after a conversation with her dying grandpa.
The lady, from Arizona, has now been clean for four years and uploaded her before and after pictures on social media.
Before
After
She said: "The top left is me in full blown addiction, I was a terrible iv user and like most, progressively got worse."
Speaking to the Daily Mail, she elaborated: "I was partying with a friend and I took a pill for the first time and due to stress and issues at home it just went downhill from there.
"I was taking up to six prescription pills at a time every single day before I reached a point at 20 years old where I wanted to get off them."
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Escalating with her drug use, she was initially attending a methadone clinic but missed a few days after the death of a friend's mother, which meant she was thrown out and failed when trying to go cold turkey.
By the end of 2012, she was on meth and heroin, but it was visiting her dying grandfather that gave her the proverbial kick up the backside.
"He sat there in his wheelchair and he told me that I was hurting him", she said.
"I was just disgusted with the person I was and I broke down. I prayed and told God 'look I don't know if you're real but I really need you to save me right now'."
He passed away two weeks later and from thereon she vowed to stave off the drugs, even doing it cold turkey, and has even began a family.
She is now on her way to becoming a minister and says she is in a great place in her life.
"I don't crave those drugs anymore. I don't hang with those people anymore - people on those drugs don't care. You don't care who you hurt."
Good on you, Dejah.
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