Although the birth of her son initially helps her center her life around a new goal, eventually Tess is back to using, straining her relationship with her family and starting a downward spiral. She is caught attempting to rob a hardware store and gets sent to jail where she learns that she is in the second trimester of pregnancy. Like many young addicts, her good health helps disguise her addiction for a while, but eventually it becomes impossible to hide, particularly after she turns to theft to help pay for her addiction. The daughter of a local surgeon and nurse, as well as a star high school athlete, she eventually develops a $200-a-day heroin addiction in college after a routine visit to urgent care ends with her getting an opioid prescription. Tess first begins telling her life story to Beth Macy in 2015. Tess Henry is a young mother from the Hidden Valley region of Virginia and the daughter of Patricia Mehrmann.
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