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February 8, 2024 59 mins

Drugs don't know your social status, nationality or the color of your skin -- they don't discriminate.  

Janice Hardman was living a life she later recalls that she wouldn’t wish on her worst enemy. 

At 52, after burning every bridge in her life, Janice was desperate to once and for all get clean and stay clean. 

And on this cold Chicago day all those years ago, the warmest place to be was the Greyhound bus station.  

And that's exactly where Janice found herself, willing to give life one more chance. 

She’d been in and out of 7 different treatment centers.   

And it was there that David Beatty showed up in his green military style jacket, ready to give Janice a ride to the next treatment home.  

But it wasn’t happily every after… you see, David wouldn’t let her husband into the truck because he was clearly still under the influence. 

And with the fate of the rest of her life hanging on this moment, Janice had to make a choice. 

This stranger represented the help she needed. 

But to trust him meant to leave behind her husband whom she loved. 

But when there seems to be no hope left where do you turn? 

Can this power of human connection transform an otherwise impossible situation, into a renewed life and sense of purpose? 

Let’s find out on today’s episode of Alter Life… 

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