PAWN OF METH - ADDICT WANTS TO GET CONSIGNED GOODS BACK

Vicki Deden says she's been clean from meth for more than a month,
and now she wants to buy back the figurines she consigned last
December to pay for food and drugs.

The problem is the items were sold from the consignment shop just
days before she asked to get them back.

Deden pawned 13 Princess House crystal characters of various animals
at ABG Buyers in Corvallis. If whoever has them is willing to give
them up, Deden said she will work at getting the money to buy them.

Deden moved to Albany from Nevada with her husband, Greg, and two
children in August 2005.

With no job and lots of free time, she said, she started using
methamphetamine after six weeks of being clean.

She says she and her husband started consigning items last fall to
pay for food and bills, but then she started consigning items to pay for meth.

Deden, 36, says her meth habit started when she was 15. She's gone on
and off the drug over the years, but this time her 34 days of being
drug free are different, she says.

Deden says she doesn't crave the drug and she's done with meth. "I've
crossed over," she says.

Her husband just recently got a job, but they're not caught up with
payments yet. Vicki Deden is looking for work but says with a
misdemeanor drug conviction and a warrant for an unpaid court fine in
Wyoming it's hard to pass a background check.

She says just because she and her husband are done with drugs, that
doesn't mean the problems are gone.

"Now we're pawning, but it's just for milk in the fridge and gas in
the car," she says.

The figurines were special to Deden and if the person who has them is
willing to sell them back, contact her by e-mail at dedenhouse@msn.com.