Ginny Burton’s story begins in Tacoma, Washington, in the early 1970s. She was one of seven children born into a deeply dysfunctional home. Her father was a career criminal, eventually imprisoned for armed robbery. Her mother, struggling with mental illness, began using and distributing drugs and didn’t shield her children from that life — she introduced Ginny to marijuana when she was just six years old, and by age 12, Ginny was already using methamphetamine.
That same year, her mother handed her a meth pipe and told her, “You might as well learn it from me.”
This is Ginny’s story. She is my Hero.
Ginny as a baby with her mother, who was a drug addict and drug dealer. (Photo: Ginny Burton)
She was born in Tacoma in 1972. She was one of seven children born to a mother who was a drug addict and a drug dealer who suffered from mental illness.
Her father was sent to prison when she was four for a string of armed robberies.
Her mother introduced her to marijuana at the age of six.
She got her using meth at age 12.
By 14 she was smoking crack.Continue reading…
