By Dave O'BrienOriginal Source: record-courier.comBy her own account, Nicole Walmsley spent 2,556 days of her life “married” to heroin.That’s more than seven lost years spent abusing both legal and illegal drugs.Her addiction consumed her life from the ages of 21 to 28. During that time, she spent exactly 496 days behind bars, she recalled.“I’ve had a lot of time to count, sitting in jail,” the 32-year-old said.She accrued that time during 18 separate trips to county jails in Northeastern Ohio on charges of receiving stolen property, forgery and theft in 2009; possession of needles and drug paraphernalia in 2010; and eventually for heroin trafficking.And while she looks back with some anger on her travels through the justice system, Walmsley has turned some of that into action.These days, she spends her time traveling throughout Ohio, telling her story of addiction and recovery and trying to give addicts like herself the hope she took years to find.How it beganBorn to a mother who was battling her own addictions, and adopted by a Christian family in Rootstown, Walmsley started smoking marijuana “and drinking Boone’s Farm” at age 16. She briefly...click here to continue reading