Lost
She had become an addict so quickly that Jocelynn didn’t even realize any of the red flags but now with her prescription finished, she started to panic! She needed her fix and needed it quick!
The life of crime followed. She went off the rails and became involved in petty crimes. She remembers those dark days, saying “I was just living a really bad life, doing a lot of really bad things that I shouldn’t have had no business doing, and I was just a really lost person.”
Alone And Abandoned
Her friends and family abandoned her due to her addiction. Jocelynn was committing break-ins, receiving stolen property, and was caught in possession of stolen credit cards. Between 2007 and 2012, she said, “I lost my car, lost my job, my license, my self-respect.”
By the late 2000s, Jocelynn James had already been arrested more than 15 times in the five years after she had her last surgery and became addicted to opiates. Her life was tumbling and spiralling in the wrong direction.