Editor’s note: This story is the first in a series on the opioid epidemic in America The teenager told her mother she had the flu. The 16-year-old locked herself in her New Rochelle, New York, bedroom and spent days vomiting, shaking and sweating. These were flu-like symptoms, but the health condition was a lie to … Continue reading ‘Heroin Was Home to Me’: One Woman’s Journey from Addict to ‘Champion of Recovery’