Her mother, Diane Leland, confronted her several times, but with no results. Finally, early in the morning of June 16 th of her junior year, after a graduation party she attended with some friends, Ann was rushed to the hospital, overdosing on heroin. She recovered, and spent a month in a clinic going through withdrawal. In therapy at the clinic, the truth came out she had been abusing hard drugs since late in her sophomore year. Police and drug abuse experts are beginning to suspect a factor which, until now, has been completely overlooked in the war against drugs food.
Food contains hundreds of different chemicals.
Some of them are known toxins, such as the arsenic found in potatoes. Other foods, such as apples, contain alcohol. Sugar, found in many foods, is capable of piercing the biological barrier keeping most substances from entering the brain. Thus, food can have a direct affect on mental states. The effect on the body of many of the other chemicals found in food is still unknown.