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 / Updated By Jon Schuppe 
  
 When Erika Hurt first saw the photo, it shattered her. 
  
 She was in jail, recovering from a near-fatal heroin overdose that occurred while her infant son slept in the back of her car. The evening news came on, and suddenly there it was: an image of Hurt slumped unconscious in the driver's seat with needle in her left hand, taken by an officer just before medics revived her with a shot of Narcan. 
  
 The picture, released by police trying to draw attention to heroin abuse in tiny Hope, Indiana, rocketed around the internet, turning Hurt into a symbol of America's opioid epidemic. 
  
 "They exposed me and my addiction to the whole world," Hurt, 26, recalled. "I thought it was terrible." 
  
 She has since changed her mind. 
  
 Erika Hurt sits with her baby in the back seat of the car in Hope, Indiana. Police said she appeared unresponsive from an overdose and had a syringe in her hand. Town of Hope Police Department via AP 
  
 On Sunday, Hurt celebrated a year of sobriety, a journey that began with the Oct. 22, 2016 overdose ─ and that picture. To mark her accomplishment, she posted the photo on Facebook, calling it "the absolute worst moment of my life" and a reminder of how far she has come. 
  
 “At this point in my life now, I do think it was a good thing, because I’m able to look back and see that's who I was, and that was the place it led to,” Hurt said this week. 
  
 The police official who released the photo, Hope Town Marshal Matt Tallent, said he never meant to embarrass Hurt, or shame her into changing. The point, he said, was to send a message of heroin's dangers. 
  
 Hope is in Bartholomew County, where the number of fatal drug overdoses has climbed from six in 2015 to 12 in 2016 to 23 so far this year ─ a jump that officials attribute to opioids. 
  
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 It's unclear if the photo had any impact on the local drug problem. Tallent said he believes it helped ─ and saved Hurt. 
  
 "For this girl to have her life ripped up and then come back and be sober after everything that's happened to her, that's a story of success," Tallent said. 
  
 Hurt and Parker walk back to their home. Ty Wright / for NBC News 
  
 Hurt traces her addiction to a staph infection she contracted when she was 15 and was prescribed painkillers. She got hooked, and progressed to heroin, often stealing to feed her habit. She managed to stop when she got pregnant, she said, and stayed clean through the December 2015 birth of her son, Parker. 
  
 She relapsed soon after, though, and went to rehab. She made it two weeks after returning home last October. She bought a packet of heroin but didn't get high until the next day, when she was driving around town with her son asleep in his car seat. 
  
 She pulled into the parking lot of a Dollar General Store and shot up. 
  
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 "I justified it by saying, 'He’s so young, he'll have no idea what's going on, he won't know even if he does see it,'" Hurt recalled. 
  
 The next thing she remembers is coming to in an ambulance. She later learned that heroin had been laced with morphine. 
  
 Hurt went from the hospital to Bartholomew County Jail, and the photo ended up with Tallent. He released it to the local media, as police in other small towns around the country — Ohio, Massachusetts, North Carolina — had done before. 
  
 It went viral. 
  
 Erika Hurt kisses the knee of her son after he stumbled. Ty Wright / for NBC News 
  
 "I was so hurt and embarrassed. I had no clue that the picture had even been taken," Hurt said. "But at the same time, it was kind of a really big eye opener to see myself like that." 
  
 Hurt ended up pleading guilty to neglect of a dependent and was given a two-year suspended jail sentence that required her to go to an inpatient drug rehab program at the jail. She signed temporary custody of her son over to her mother. 
  
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 When the inpatient program ended, Hurt was allowed to live at her mother's under house arrest. She was reunited with Parker, who will turn 2 in December, and found a job in a plastic molding plant. 
  
 She feared ending up a pariah in her town of 2,158 people, remembered only for her lowest moment. But other than some nasty online comments, no one treated her badly in public, she said. 
  
 "There was a lot more love than attacking," Hurt said. 
  
 Hurt and her son play ball outside their home. Ty Wright / for NBC News 
  
 She still attends court-mandated rehab and self-help meetings, and plans to petition for custody of her son when she feels stable enough. 
  
 She holds no grudge against the police. Over the summer, a Hope officer pulled her over for speeding, looked at her license and told her he was proud of her. He let her go without a ticket, she said. 
  
 Hurt wrote a note to the police department, thanking them. 
  
 Tallent says Hurt's story is an inspiration. 
  
 "Young people make mistakes," he said. "People are allowed to make mistakes as long as they recognize it and come back stronger. That’s what this is about." |||||  
  
 Erika Hurt was found unconscious last fall in her car. (Hope, Ind., Police Department) 
  
 Erika Hurt had become the face of drug addiction. 
  
 The young mother was captured in a photograph by police, passed out in the driver's seat of her car outside a Dollar General store in Hope, Ind. — an empty syringe still resting between the 25-year-old addict's fingers. The snapshot captured yet another horrifying moment in the worsening U.S. opioid epidemic. 
  
 What was not seen that Saturday afternoon last October was her 10-month-old son, buckled into his car seat in the back. 
  
 When Hurt first saw the photo, she was embarrassed. 
  
 “I was angry and I wanted to blame the police for putting my business out there and showing the world my private addiction and everything like that,” she told NBC News, a year after the image went viral. 
  
 But the photo, she said, eventually had a sobering effect. 
  
 “I’m thankful now that the cop did take the picture,” she told NBC News. “The fact that I’m able to look back on that picture and see where the addiction had taken me, and I’m able to use that picture now to show others that addicts can recover.” 
  
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 Hurt reposted the picture over on Facebook to celebrate one year of sobriety. 
  
 “I've decided to repost the picture simply because it displays exactly what heroin addiction is,” she wrote. “Also because I do not want to ever forget where the road of addiction has taken me. 
  
 “Little did I know that day, my life was about to change, drastically. Today, I am able to focus on the good that came from that picture. Today, I am a mother to my son, again. Today, I am able to be grateful to actually have solid proof where addiction will only lead you, and today I am able to say that I am ONE YEAR SOBER!” 
  
 Hurt said in a phone interview Friday afternoon with The Washington Post that the photo certainly helped her to stay sober because, until the moment she saw it, “I was never able to see myself in active addiction.” 
  
 But, she said, she was also shaken by being ripped away from her son for the months while she was behind bars, missing memories she wanted to have — his first Thanksgiving turkey, his first Christmas morning, his first birthday celebration. “That was very painful,” she said. “After that, I told myself I wasn’t going to miss any more of his life.” 
  
 ONE YEAR SOBER!!!I've seriously debated for the past month, on whether I should repost such a painful picture... Posted by Erika Hurt on Saturday, October 21, 2017 
  
 On Thursday, President Trump declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency, calling it the “worst drug crisis in American history” and vowing to focus the nation's attention on resolving it. 
  
 “As Americans, we cannot allow this to continue,” he said. “It is time to liberate our communities from the scourge of drug addiction. We can be the generation that ends the opioid epidemic. We can do it.” 
  
 Despite Trump’s call to action, critics questioned the merits of his pronouncement, given that it did not include an immediate request to Congress for emergency funding. 
  
 “America is hemorrhaging lives by the day because of the opioid epidemic, but President Trump offered the country a Band-Aid when we need a tourniquet,” said Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.). Markey called the announcement “nothing more than a dog-and-pony show in an attempt to demonstrate the Trump administration is not ignoring this crisis.” 
  
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 Since 2014, more than 28,000 people in the United States have overdosed on opioids and died, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Specifically, heroin overdose deaths have quadrupled since 2010, accounting for nearly 13,000 deaths in 2015, according to the data. 
  
 Behind the grim statistics are haunting scenes of overdosed victims — and the children affected by their parents' addictions. 
  
 Disturbing photographs and videos depicting scenes such as the one in which Hurt was found unconscious have become common as the epidemic rages. 
  
 In September 2016, a chilling photograph distributed by authorities captured the innocence lost on a 4-year-old’s face in East Liverpool, Ohio, where a man and woman were seen slumped over after overdosing in a vehicle, the boy still strapped into his car seat in the back. 
  
 A week later and 600 miles away, at a Family Dollar store in Lawrence, Mass., a hysterical toddler was captured on a cellphone video as she tried to wake her mother after an apparent drug overdose. 
  
 Hope Town Marshal Matt Tallent, who originally released the photo of Hurt, could not immediately be reached for comment. 
  
 But he told NBC News he never intended to embarrass Hurt; he simply wanted to bring awareness to the public-health crisis. 
  
 “For this girl to have her life ripped up and then come back and be sober after everything that's happened to her, that's a story of success,” Tallent told NBC. 
  
 Hurt had tried to get sober before — she said she went through rehab only two weeks before her overdose photo spread across the Internet and then relapsed. 
  
 In October 2016, she recalled, she was “miserable.” 
  
 She said she had bought some heroin on a Friday and had been trying to convince herself not to use it. But she failed. She knew she needed to reach out for help but decided she did not want to be talked out of using it, she said, so while driving with her sleeping son in the back seat, she pulled over in the first safe place she could find — a Dollar General parking lot. 
  
 She said she thought she could get high in secrecy, and no one would ever know. 
  
 Her son was asleep, she remembered thinking, and if he woke up, he wouldn't understand what she was doing anyway. 
  
 She said she does not remember the moment she overdosed; she only remembers paramedics putting her in an ambulance. 
  
 As The Washington Post's Kristine Phillips reported, police believed Hurt had overdosed on heroin, and she was given two doses of Narcan, which reverses opioid overdoses in emergency situations. 
  
 Hurt said she was arrested later that day and was in jail when she first saw the photo, splashed across a TV screen. 
  
 “I didn’t even know the picture had been taken,” she told The Post. “I just remember being extremely shocked. I was at a loss for words. I was humiliated, and I was hurt, and I was very angry at the police.” 
  
 Hurt said she had been battling addiction since she was 15, when she was prescribed painkillers for a staph infection. By 19, she had started using heroin, she said, and by 21, she had moved to the needle. 
  
 She got sober in 2013 when she spent eight months in county jail, she said, and she maintained her sobriety through her pregnancy. 
  
 But she soon relapsed. 
  
 Being able to see what her addiction looked like — and understand how it would affect her son — enabled her to overcome it, she said. 
  
 “There's been multiple times I've tried to get sober and failed because I didn't have the true desire to get sober,” she said. 
  
 Now, she said, she does. 
  
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 How the government can fight the opioid epidemic under a public health emergency 
  
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When police found 25-year-old Erika Hurt passed out in her car in the parking lot of an Indiana Dollar General Store, needle in her hand, with her 10-month-old son in the backseat, they snapped a photo that went viral as the face of the opioid crisis in America. One year after the photo was taken, Hurt tells NBC News that despite being "so hurt and embarrassed" police would make the photo public, "it was kind of a really big eye opener to see myself like that." Hurt celebrated a year of sobriety last Sunday, posting the photo of "the absolute worst moment of my life" on Facebook to show "exactly what heroin addiction is" and to never "forget where the road of addiction has taken me." Hurt first saw the photo on the news while she was in jail. At the time, she thought "it was terrible" that police would expose her like that. "Now, I do think it was a good thing, because I’m able to look back and see that's who I was, and that was the place it led to." The Washington Post reports Hurt has struggled with addiction since she was prescribed painkillers for a staph infection at 15. While locked up following her overdose, she missed her son's first Thanksgiving, Christmas, and birthday. "I told myself I wasn't going to miss any more of his life," she says. She says her son—and the photo—have given her "the true desire" to stay sober.