Looking to drugs and gangs for love led Ricky down the wrong path. Born to a mother who suffered from drug addiction and alcoholism and a father who was incarcerated, Ricky P spent his childhood being raised by his grandparents. His mother eventually ended up in jail and he would spend his weekends going to church and then visiting his mother behind bars.
When Ricky finally gets out of juvenile hall, his mother gets released from jail and he moves in with her. Within a very short period of time his mother offers to get high with him. Wanting nothing more than to get approval from his mother, Ricky accepts the offer and starts getting high with his mother.
He thought that he was just going to smoke weed and relax. Eventually, he started smoking meth and that’s when this addiction started. He then started breaking into houses and cars to get the money for the drugs that he wanted so badly. He started with snorting meth and smoking weed on a regular basis. Eventually, he was no longer able to control the addiction that he had and looked at his friends as the source of everything that kept him stable in the world. He eventually felt like he was trapped in a box. Filled with resentment and regret, he ended up robbing someone and using the money to buy more drugs and full his addiction.
After being relieved from jail, Ricky violated the guidelines of his probation and ended up going to court high. He was hallucinating while he was in the courtroom which led to him going to a competency hearing. The court determined that he needed professional help and he was sent to Paton State Hospital which is a mental hospital. After two years in the hospital, Ricky was deemed to be competent and he ended up going back to jail for a short period of time.
Ricky got busted by his probation officer drinking a beer because he wasn’t drinking responsibly. His probation officer tells him he has to go to Crossroads to get the help that he needs. He got busted with drugs at Crossroads, but they don’t give up on him. Ricky felt like God told him to get the help that he needed, and he could have recovery from alcohol and drug addiction. He listened and went to Maverick House Sober Living where he started listening and learning about how he could rebuild his life. He worked the steps, graduated from the program and went to the sober house where he was able to better his life. He eventually became a sponsor for others who were battling an addiction like he once was. He has his family and life back and is now living the life he was always supposed to live. Finally the seeds that had been planted in Ricky’s life began to produce fruit.
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