She was photographed with drugs, overcame her depression and celebrated with her son

Erika Hurt was 25 when her picture became viral. I had just suffered heroin overdose in his car The police found him fainted, a syringe in his hand, with your 10-month-old baby strapped to the back seat. These days, his image is back on the networks, but with a much happier motive: he has not eaten for three years drug addicts and celebrated with an emotional photo shoot with his son.

As Hurt explained to the chain ABC I wanted to give people "a different image" of how a life can come after an overdose.

"I hope people will see how well they have come and that they are like me at that time, that they know that they can come back," said Hurt, 28 years old, on the program Hello America, about the photo shoot in which your son is holding a sign that says "I have my mom".

When they found her in the town of Hope, Indiana, rescuers managed to resuscitate her using two doses of Narcan, a cure for an opioid overdose. She was on probation and had been sentenced to six months in a closed rehabilitation program.

The police had aired their image to "attract attention and show what is a heroin overdose".

The young mother who started taking medication at the age of 15, said that it was "humiliating" become the face of a campaign against drugs. However, he now claims that this viral photo that's what prompted her to recover and stay sober for three years.

"I definitely printed the picture in my mind," he said. "I'm using it to remind me that my addiction will take me there in case of relapse."

Hurt says his big motivation is his son Parker, with whom he managed to build the link that he had not before. As he explained, he did not use drugs during his pregnancy, but relapse two months after childbirth.

"I was physically present for my son, but I was not mentally there for him and I missed all his first milestones," he lamented. The overdose and the photo "were my turning point, I decided to really want to be sober and to be in my son's life"he added.

Hurt managed to regain control of his son and works full time. Until now, I was looking at the photo of his overdose every time he celebrated a year of sobriety. But from there, he wants to look at the one he's taken with his son to motivate himself. "Now we are inseparable, he is his mother's baby," he said.