Although Marco describes his childhood with foster parents as happy, he says questions about his birth family were "always on my mind".
Image caption Marco Hauenstein`s search drew mass media attentionWhen Marco was born in 1997, he was already addicted, and had to spend the first months of his life in hospital withdrawing and recovering.
Gina Hauenstein, who came from a small village in northern Switzerland, had been listed as officially missing since 2000.
Image caption Marco Hauenstein as a baby with his birth motherA man who launched an online search for his missing birth mother discovered she died years ago in Germany - but bureaucratic errors led to the family never being informed.
Police told him that despite a search both within Switzerland and across Europe, no trace of her had ever been found.
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