Hope for recovery from opioid addiction: For Caeli, methadone was missing component

• Keira McGuire
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  Keira McGuire is a health reporter and multimedia producer for WITF. She hosts and produces Transforming Health television programs as well as other shows and documentaries for WITF’s Original Productions. McGuire produced the Emmy Award winning series HealthSmart for the last ten years. Keira previously worked at WBFF in Baltimore and WMDT in Salisbury as a reporter and anchor. She’s a graduate of Towson University.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 116 people died every day in 2016 from opioid-related drug overdoses. Another 170,000 used heroin for the first time.

Caeli Donaldson is in long-term recovery from heroin addiction. She went through about 15 rehab facilities, recovery houses and detox programs before beginning a methadone maintenance program. She continues that today. She says methadone, although controversial, is her path to a healthy life.

She hopes others will find strength from her story.