Addiction left Ronni Katz's personal life in a shambles, even as she achieved professional success as a musician, a counselor and Nashville's youth program coordinator.

Her apartment was a wreck, her car a clunker and she was incapable of sustaining a relationship.

She worked to convince young people that staying clean was key to a meaningful life. Eventually, she listened to her own message, joining Narcotics Anonymous in 1997.

Now Katz oversees Portland's Overdose Prevention Project, hoping to keep drug users alive so they at least have a chance to change course.

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