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At 15, Neela Bear was a high school freshman on the Lame Deer Reservation in Montana who ran track and was diligently moving toward the honor society. But she was also looking for comfort. Her father had been gravely ill and nearly died, sending the teenager to her peers and to drug use. It was then that she first tried methamphetamine.
"I told myself I would never touch alcohol because I had seen since I was little how it affected people on the reservation," says Neela, who felt then that marijuana seemed a little safer because she was able to maintain a certain level of consciousness even with heavy use. Smoking pot with friends was common until a new drug ...
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