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were all gone, because alcohol could trigger a craving for drugs. "It was either let her do what she was doing, let her die or save her," said Romero on ABCNEWS' Good Morning America.
Her mother fed Danner vitamins, herbs, fresh fruits and vegetables, watching as she chewed and swallowed. She had read that detox took 7 days, but she decided to keep watch over her daughter for 21 days " and really get it out of her system," Romero said.
Sweating it Out
That intervention was what it took for Danner to finally get control of herself. She then went to Narconon, a rehab facility in Newkirk, Okla., for 100 days. There she shook off the addiction, sweated out the drug toxins in a sauna, exercised, and attended classes on addiction.
Danner is part of an upward trend of powder cocaine use among young people. A University of Michigan study shows that powder cocaine use by those between the ages of 19 and 28 jumped 33 percent between 1993 and 1999. Americans spend $39 billion per year on cocaine, with 5.2 million users of cocaine and its derivatives, and 3.3 million addicts, the President's Office of National Drug Control Policy estimates.
By the time her parents intervened, Danner had lost 30 pounds, much of her hair had fallen out from malnutrition, and powder coke had eaten a hole in the cartilage of her sinus cavity.
Her addiction caused Danner to lose her job as the top sales executive at a country music station in Houston.
There, she considered...
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