Meda Bush has been homeless for a little over a year, after her boyfriend was laid off and she relapsed on heroin. Drugs are everywhere in Camden, and she said it was just too hard for her to stay clean.

"I lost myself, in Camden. I just got lost," she said.

After bouncing between shelters and sleeping on cardboard in the streets for the past year, she recently arrived at Joseph's House.

It's been a nice change from the streets. "You have no idea what it's like to get up and not knowing where you're gonna sleep or shower, where you're gonna' be safe," she said. "There's been many of times where me and my boyfriend, we've been robbed -- we wake up and our stuff's missing and knives have been at us."

Bush said she used to have a "normal" life; she was happily married, had a good relationship with her two kids and owned a house. Now her youngest son doesn't want anything to do with her, and she has no idea where her parents or brothers are.

Bush says she has been clean since arriving at Joseph's a week ago, and she is determined to stay out of trouble. "I knew the life that I was leading was gonna' kill me, and I didn't want to become another statistic in Camden," she said.