Betty Guadagno

Like we would steal our groceries and my dad, instead of having weekend business trips, he would have weekend trips to jail.

Doesn't everybody's dad do that?

And I, you know, my mom, she was like just a kleptomaniac and we never had any money.

We were really impoverished.

We moved once or twice a year.

We were always getting evicted.

Just a really chaotic upbringing.

But I started, my parents were coping with addiction.

So like every time, you know, a bill would come that they couldn't pay, they would just eat a pill.

And then all of a sudden it didn't matter that they couldn't pay their bill.

Or if we had to move suddenly, they would smoke something.

And like all of a sudden it didn't matter that we, our life was completely uprooted.

So I watched my parents' addiction really progress over the course of their life.

And the OxyContin epidemic specifically out here in Las Vegas was really crazy.

And my parents were doctor shopping and they were both prescribed over a thousand pills each every month and they were still running out.

Every month.

It was crazy.

Yeah.

Yes.

Like fistfuls of pills all the time.