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ST. GEORGE — Once in a dark cycle of depression and addiction, one man turned his life completely around. And he wants others to know it's possible.
"I went from a drug dealer to a book dealer," Justin Judkins said. "It's so miraculous and black and white. It's day and night to just become someone entirely different. It's crazy."
It may have been 16 years ago that Judkins decided to detox on a friend's couch and leave the world of drug use and drug dealing behind, but he remembers the dark place he was in like it was yesterday.
Growing up, Judkins said he experienced an extremely abusive home life. To help him escape, he began smoking marijuana and drinking alcohol around the age of 14. It wasn't until he found himself going through a difficult divorce later in life that he tried hard drugs for the first time.
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