Karen Daskam-Canaday was a Girl Scouts leader and a Sunday school teacher and made sure her five children had good Christmases and birthday parties.

As a waitress, "they called me speedy. Little did they know," she said.

"I was what they call a functioning addict," she said. "I was good at hiding it, or at least I thought so."

"I did everything." Black beauties and Crosses (amphetamines), cocaine, PCP, marijuana, alcohol and methamphetamine, to name a few.

It started when she was about 14. Her dad was drunk and shot her mom.

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