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Drug Addict Overcomes Past to Become Nursing School Graduate

Drug Addict Overcomes Past to Become Nursing School Graduate
After years of smoking crack with her mother, shooting heroin and living on the streets, a 29-year-old woman completed an incredible journey this week graduating with honors from a nursing degree program.

After years of smoking crack with her mother, shooting heroin and living on the streets, Skyla Nieves completed an incredible journey this week graduating with honors from a nursing degree program.

The odds were against her, but the 29 year-old woman turned her life around and on May 3 graduated from Catawba Valley Community College in North Carolina.

She hopes to practice in the same rehab center where she was once a patient.

(READ the story, w/ photo, from the Charlotte Observer)

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