{"id":7675,"date":"2024-06-12T14:01:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T14:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=7675"},"modified":"2024-06-12T14:26:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T14:26:15","slug":"the-rage-secrecy-and-pain-of-a-family-torn-apart-by-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=7675","title":{"rendered":"The Rage, Secrecy and Pain of a Family Torn Apart by Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kim Jones lives in a neat house on a road lined with cattails and lilies near the Delaware River with three dogs, four cats, her new husband, her 19-year-old daughter, Hannah, and her father, Curt. Kim has planted blueberries in the backyard and plans to start keeping bees. A wooden sign in the window of her garage conveys her hope for the future: \u201cHoney For Sale.\u201d<\/p>\n

But she dwells on the years when her drug addiction erased her from her own life. While she was using \u2014 mostly crack cocaine and heroin \u2014 and for the 25 months she spent incarcerated, her parents and sister were raising her two kids, Hannah Moumen and her older brother Curtis Jones. Kim\u2019s aunt Julie stepped in from time to time, and neighbors, friends, colleagues and the parents of her kids\u2019 friends were worrying and picking up slack.<\/p>\n

Sitting on the back porch at the house in Middletown, Del., Curt, who is 77, talked about the retirement travel that he and his wife, Roberta, had been planning when Kim disappeared in 2011. They had their eye on a smallish motor home with a Mercedes cab, dreaming of touring the West and pursuing one of Curt\u2019s passions, competitive trap shooting.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were this close to buying it,\u201d Curt said, holding up his thumb and forefinger in a pinch.<\/p>\n

But in the end, there wasn\u2019t a choice. Curt served 20 years as a state trooper in Delaware. The police have a saying, \u201cThere\u2019s no such thing as an old addict,\u201d he explained. \u201cI told Roberta, prepare \u2014 you know \u2014 prepare the casket. It\u2019s done. If this continues on, you\u2019re going to bury her. So the main thing is, let\u2019s get these kids squared away.\u201d Curt and Roberta let the motor home fantasy go, and Roberta, a nurse, took early retirement so she could care for Curtis and Hannah, who were 8 and 6.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In Delaware, it seems everyone knows everyone \u2014 \u201cIt\u2019s two degrees of separation,\u201d Curt said. So the trial of President Biden\u2019s son Hunter on charges of lying about his addiction to purchase a gun felt to some of the state\u2019s residents like a reality show cast with their neighbors and friends. Curt attended the University of Delaware with Jill Biden\u2019s first husband, Bill Stevenson, and as a state trooper assisted at the scene of the car accident that killed Joe Biden\u2019s first wife, Neilia, their baby daughter, Naomi, and injured both Hunter and his brother, Beau.<\/p>\n

The Hunter Biden trial, which ended Tuesday with his conviction on all three counts, was a national spectacle, a prurient display of betrayal, excess, indulgence and lies: a pistol in the trash, a crack pipe on the porch, a cadre of girlfriends and wives orbiting Biden offering him their love, fear and vigilance \u2014 and sometimes more drugs.<\/p>\n

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Kim Jones lives in a neat house on a road lined with cattails and lilies near the Delaware River with three dogs, four cats, her new husband, her 19-year-old daughter, Hannah, and her father, Curt. Kim has planted blueberries in the backyard and plans to start keeping bees. A wooden sign in the window of her garage conveys her hope for the future: \u201cHoney For Sale.\u201dBut she dwells on the years when her drug addiction erased her from her own life. While she was using \u2014 mostly crack cocaine and heroin \u2014 and for the 25 months she spent incarcerated, her parents and sister were raising her two kids, Hannah Moumen and her older brother Curtis Jones. Kim\u2019s aunt Julie stepped in from time to time, and neighbors, friends, colleagues and the parents of her kids\u2019 friends were worrying and picking up slack.Sitting on the back porch at the house in Middletown, Del., Curt, who is 77, talked about the retirement travel that he and his wife, Roberta, had been planning when Kim disappeared in 2011. They had their eye on a smallish motor home with a Mercedes cab, dreaming of touring the West and pursuing one of Curt\u2019s passions, competitive trap shooting.\u201cWe were this close to buying it,\u201d Curt said, holding up his thumb and forefinger in a pinch.But in the end, there wasn\u2019t a choice. Curt served 20 years as a state trooper in Delaware. The police have a saying, \u201cThere\u2019s no such thing as an old addict,\u201d he explained. \u201cI told Roberta, prepare \u2014 you know \u2014 prepare the casket. It\u2019s done. If this continues on, you\u2019re going to bury her. So the main thing is, let\u2019s get these kids squared away.\u201d Curt and Roberta let the motor home fantasy go, and Roberta, a nurse, took early retirement so she could care for Curtis and Hannah, who were 8 and 6.In Delaware, it seems everyone knows everyone \u2014 \u201cIt\u2019s two degrees of separation,\u201d Curt said. So the trial of President Biden\u2019s son Hunter on charges of lying about his addiction to purchase a gun felt to some of the state\u2019s residents like a reality show cast with their neighbors and friends. Curt attended the University of Delaware with Jill Biden\u2019s first husband, Bill Stevenson, and as a state trooper assisted at the scene of the car accident that killed Joe Biden\u2019s first wife, Neilia, their baby daughter, Naomi, and injured both Hunter and his brother, Beau.The Hunter Biden trial, which ended Tuesday with his conviction on all three counts, was a national spectacle, a prurient display of betrayal, excess, indulgence and lies: a pistol in the trash, a crack pipe on the porch, a cadre of girlfriends and wives orbiting Biden offering him their love, fear and vigilance \u2014 and sometimes more drugs.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7677,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7678,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675\/revisions\/7678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}