Mary Beth O'Connor - From Junkie to Judge

MARY BETH O'CONNOR is a director, secretary, and founding investor for She Recovers Foundation and a director for LifeRing Secular Recovery. A graduate of Berkeley Law School, in 2014 she was appointed a federal administrative law judge and retired in 2020. Prior to all this she was a meth addict and a victim of verbal, physical and sexual abuse. Mary Beth shares her memoir with Papamutes.
She has been sober since 1994.
photos; courtesy m.o'connor

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Chapters

• 7:24 Shooting Meth the first time.
• 13:29 Numb me out.
• 15:36 30 years of Sobriety
• 19:57 Berkley Law School
• 23:47 Needle exchange
• 25:00 She Recovers Foundation
• 29:28 The First Step
• 32:50 Mental Health Treatment
• 38:02 Writing a Memoir
• 41:16 This or That