Graduating in Solano County to a drug-free life

A long journey filled with drug and alcohol use, arrests, homelessness and hospitalization has turned into recovery and a hope for the future for a graduate from the Solano County Dependency Drug Court.

Angel Moyer, 32, a wife and mother of three, openly shared Wednes-day about her methamphetamine and alcohol addiction and how it nearly destroyed her family.

It wasn't until the third time Fairfield police Officer Steve Trojanowski arrested her for driving with her children in the car after drinking alcohol that she realized things needed to be different.

"I was less than a mile away from home, and he was just doing his job," she said. "It was probably the best thing that could have happened."

After being removed from her home and entering rehab, Moyer came under the wing of the Dependency Drug Court.

The program provides intensive judicial monitoring to Solano County parents who have a dependency case and who are addicted to drugs and/or alcohol.

"They had faith in me," she said. "They adjusted the program around my mental health needs."

Moyer explained that suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, attributed to severe childhood trauma before she was a teenager, and bipolar disorder were the basis for her drug and alcohol use.

She now has a new foundation.

"My faith in God has been the foundation for emotional healing and my mental health," she said.

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Graduating in Solano County to a drug-free life