The problem, she says, is that when they return to their home, nothing has changed there. It s like dropping back to earth from another planet. The answer, she says, is to place residential treatment programs in the neighborhoods where people have their homes. That way, drug users change their habits while they remain in the community, in contact with their family and other support systems and in proximity to their old haunts. The return home, then, is not a momentous crisis fraught with temptations.
Families don t figure into that.
Yet families are a drug user s best chance to keep off drugs. Families can be a resource in a system that has been focused on the individuals that are arrested. I did stick-ups and robberies and sold things out of my house. I got arrested and put in jail. They say jail is rehabilitation.