LAS VEGAS ( FOX5 ) — It may be hard to imagine a 12-year-old girl drinking alcohol and then abusing meth.

“I started using when I was 12. Alcohol came first. And then quite quickly I found meth and acid and ecstasy,” said Jamie Hatfield.

Jamie Hatfield says she later got into opiates and heroin. And about a decade ago, while homeless in the Fresno, California area, she overdosed.

“I remember I went to get high. And I remember being shaken awake. CPR was being done on me. The guy said we just hit you with Narcan. We’ve got to get you to the hospital,” said Hatfield.

Narcan, also called Naloxone, can reverse an opioid overdose.

Hatfield says her experience eventually led her to getting clean and sober and she reconnected with her mother.

“I lost my kid because of my addiction. I’ve g

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