Fund My Sister's Addiction Recovery

This gofundme is to raise money to help my sister, Lauren Dixon, finally beat her drug addiction. We will use it to pay for her rehab and give her starting money to get her in a live-in home away from Fishers where she is drug tested daily and will be held accountable. Places like these are expensive and my family doesn't have the money to pay the first month of rent and other expenses up front. I'll explain more about what we will do with this money later.Around age 15 my sister Lauren started drinking and using drugs. Peer pressure and other factors kept her drinking and using. Then, in 2010, my mom was diagnosed with lung cancer. This was extremely hard on the family.
My sister kept using drugs throughout this, and eventually dropped out of high school. My parents had her in and out of rehab and each time Lauren would come back home and meet up with her friends who would offer her drugs and alcohol. Being around these people, as well as the nature of addiction, has kept her on drugs. 
In 2013 our mom died unexpectedly. Everyone in the family was heartbroken. Lauren kept using. Later that year my sister finally got out of Fishers. She moved to Florida and met her boyfriend, eventually moving in with him. She stayed off of drugs and finally got a healthier lifestyle. This was the happiest I'd seen her since we were kids. 
The next year when she and her boyfriend broke up, she moved back home. I thought that everything would be different now, and she did too. Eventually she started using again. Alcohol, narcotics, opiates. Anything she could get ahold of. Since the summer of 2014 she has been in and out of rehab three times. And every time she comes out, she gives in and uses drugs sooner than the last time. 
Since our mom died she has battled depression. She has no high school diploma. She can hardly hold a job since her life has been so unstable lately. Since she moved back to Fishers, virtually all of the money she has earned has gone to either drugs or to her friend, who lent her money to buy a car. She wants to get her GED and move away, but with an addiction problem and no money, it has always seemed impossible. 

All of this culminated into a terrible car accident in early July. My sister blacked out and swerved into the other lane of traffic, hitting a truck head on. She was driving to go buy heroin. She wanted to mix Xanax and heroin, killing herself. I'm glad she got into the car crash, because if she hadn't, she would have killed herself.  She was taken to the hospital and was extremely lucky. She had a few stitches in her mouth and was a little cut up, but the rest of her is fine. Her car was totaled in the accident. After her release from the hopsital, I drove her to drug rehab, where she has been since. This time, more than any other time, she is serious. She is serious about changing her life, getting away from Fishers, turning her life around. She knows that she should have died that Thursday, and the only thing that stopped her was the car accident.
We are trying to raise money to pay for the first few weeks of a live-in program where Lauren will live with three other girls who are also battling addiction. They attend programs from 9-4 every day, going to AA, NA, and other meetings frequently. With the rest of their time, they can get jobs. Our plan is to use the money we raise here to pay the initial cost of living at this housing. Lauren will continue to recover for the first week or so, going to extensive recovery classes, and then get a job so she can continue to pay rent and other fees and continue living there. Every time she has gotten out of rehab she has relapsed. And every time she relapses she has gotten closer and closer to overdosing. I am afraid that if she comes home again, it will be the end. She simply can not come home again and be with her friends and her connections who she buys from. I'm looking to raise $1000 to help her recover from her addiction once and for all and to finally get her life back on track. Any donation will help. If you don't have anything to donate, please share this story. Thanks for reading.

-Vince Dixon