“We left dad in Kiev”: The heartbreaking testimony of a Ukrainian boy who escaped from the capital
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It is in this context that her daughter, currently 8 years old, was born, for whom she began to look for a change that would allow him to give her the best he could: “I felt miserable”, he said, especially since his addiction led him to lose custody of the minor.
“It seemed like I was close to death. I was destroying my daughter’s heart. I want people to know that there is always hope, even if it seems like there is not,” said the young man from Greenfield, Ohio, United States.
As indicated to the media, Austin began to consume alcohol and marijuana at the age of 11, however, shortly after, he switched to harsher substances such as heroin and other chemicals.
The addiction even led him to be diagnosed with illnesses such as hepatitis B and C, and an infection in your spine that did not allow him to walk for almost six months.
Their daughter was born in September 2013: “The idea of my daughter losing me forever is what really consumed me inside,” he explained.
In 2020, he began treatment to quit drugs, in a detoxification program.
After almost half a year, the young man left the compound and can see his daughter almost every day of the week.
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