Editor’s note: The name of the heroin addict described in the following story has been changed.
Shirley, a 56-year-old woman living in Haines, is broken.
When she was 21, her husband fired a bullet into her gut. He also threw her down a flight of stairs, breaking nearly every bone on the left side of her body. He kicked her teeth out.
Shirley’s mind also is broken. Besides the pain associated with spending three decades…