Florida woman finds hope in recovery from prescription pill abuse

By McClatchy Newspapers

MANATEE, Fla. — It began with sips of alcohol and hits of marijuana at 10.

When she turned 12, she was popping pills.

And by 14, Paige O'Brock was injecting herself with prescription drugs.

She was hooked.

“We started with snorting pills and I was doing a lot of Xanax,” said O'Brock, now 20. “I would black out a lot and would have no idea what I was doing. I remember