[Mothers] ultimately sought treatment because of their own desire to stop using drugs and for reasons related to personal well-being. Those were the only factors we tested; however, there are undoubtedly other reasons, too.

We have such a cultural expectation that children are going to be an intrinsic source of motivation for mothers. What we found was that what was going on internally with the women was more important than what was going on externally.

They were just sick of their day-to-day lives. They had just had enough. They were feeling down and anxious.

The drug seemed to be effective even in patients who had failed treatment from other immunosuppressive drugs.

I thought over and over about what I was going to do when Carly overdosed and died. How would we go on? And then I knew: I wouldn’t go on. And then I realized that it was just going to be too painful to actually have to watch her die. Right in front of me. My daughter was dying. That’s when I snapped.

The decision-making part of the brain of an individual who has been using crystal meth is very interesting. When Carly and Andy were in their apartment, they ran out of drugs. They sold every single thing they had except two things: a couch and a blow torch. They had to make a decision because something had to be sold to buy more drugs. A normal person would automatically think, Sell the blow torch. But Andy and Carly sat on the couch, looking at the couch and looking at the blow torch, and the choice brought intense confusion. The couch? The blow torch? I mean, we may not need the blow torch today, but what about tomorrow? If we sell the couch, we can still sit wherever we want. But the blow torch? A blow torch is a very specific item. If you’re doing a project and you need a blow torch, you can’t substitute something else for it. You would have to have a blow torch, right? In the end, they sold the couch.