KY: A Family's Meth Addiction

BOWLING GREEN, KY - DECEMBER 2005: Teri celebrates at the bar of the Ramada Inn hotel on December 2005, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Sandy turned 41 years old on this evening and several of the sisters and Ricky went out to celebrate her birthday. Sandy and Teri participated in a dance contest. They both won a cash prize for their dancing. Teri, the youngest sister is also a Meth user. She lives now with her mother and Ricky. She has two young sons Ivan (4) in the picture, and Ethan (1). The father of the children is in jail serving a very long sentence relating to Meth drugs charges, and Teri does not want to have any contact with him ever again. Her children call Ricky uncle dad as he is a father figure for them in the house. Ivan and Ethan are naturally exposed to this vicious cycle of drugs the family is in, resulting in them being neglected and ignored. As a result of the entire family abusing drugs, they are also not fed much and forgotten. (Photo by Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images)