Recovering addict speaks up for drug court program
By Mary Schenk
Thursday July 31, 2008
Robin Scholz
Veronica Horstead of Urbana, whose drug use put her in a coma in April 2007, says she is now in recovery thanks to taxpayer-supported drug treatment programs.
URBANA – Veronica Horstead hit bottom on April 12, 2007.
That's the day the then 39-year-old Urbana woman went into a coma, not long after her last hit of heroin almost suffocated her. Fortunately for Horstead, she was able to surprise the judge and all the medical professionals who said she wouldn't live to see 40.
Now in her seventh month of Champaign County's drug court program and planning her fall school schedule for Parkland College, Horstead is a living testament to the success of tax-supported drug treatment programs such as the one she's engaged in at Prairie Center in Urbana.
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