Ronald, 11, sits watching TV as his mother sleeps out a drunken bout. Ronald started using drugs when he was nine years old, prompting Christina and her girlfriend to stop using themselves. “We want to do it for the children,” they say, although Christina admits she still drinks. “I need it,” she says.

 
 

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