Addiction Hurts the Individual and the Family
Drug addictions rarely impact only the user. Instead, addicts tend to drag family and friends into the downward spiral of pills or alcohol they consume without regard for the damage being committed.
In an article in Behavioral Health Central, convicted murderer Kara Garvin was transferred to the Ohio Reformatory for Women at Marysville where she will likely spend the remaining years of her life. In March, she was sentenced to life without mercy in the shooting deaths of Ed and Juanita Mollett and their daughter, Christina.
Addiction was at the center of this crime. Reportedly, both Garvin and the Molletts had spent years buying and selling drugs from each other.
In March Garvin was sentenced to life without mercy in the shooting deaths of Ed and Juanita Mollett and their daughter, Christina. At the heart of the crime was addiction. Both Garvin and the Molletts had allegedly spent years buying and selling drugs from each other.
Garvin left behind two parents, a sister, a daughter and a host of aunts and uncles, all of whom showed up every day for the three weeks of Garvin’s trial. Many of them got up before the judge and jury to talk about Garvin’s overwhelming addiction.
"I saw the effect. I saw how it was affecting her," Andrea Webb, Garvin’s sister, told the court, reflecting on the escalation of the problem during Garvin’s relationship with her last boyfriend. "The drug use was worse than I had ever seen it. It was out of control. I wanted to take her out of the relationship. I saw what it was doing to her. She wasn’t the same person."
Kara Garvin is easily considered a poster child for how drugs and alcohol ravage the addict and the family.