When Joe Gladding arrived at his mom’s house after more than a decade of active drug use, he wasn’t sure what he wanted to do or where to go.

He was just exhausted from the weight of everything.

“I wasn’t trying to get clean at that point. Everything had just ground down. I was just exhausted physically, emotionally, mentally,” Gladding said.

“It was just that I was done, but I didn’t know what that really meant. I wasn’t looking to get clean, I just didn’t know what to do. I was out of any ability to do anything different.”

Gladding returned home in the spring of 2013 after an ex-girlfriend, whose house he had spent the previous few days, called his mom telling her she needed to come get her son and that he needed help.

While previous interactions with his mom had ended with him scre

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