It took me five or six months to start thinking about that. You can do a lot of rehabilitating by yourself in jail. Talon, whose clear skin, chiseled features and stylishly baggy jeans belie his troubled background, says his father is an alcoholic and his mother a recovering drug addict. He first smoked pot at 11, sold drugs at 15 and was hooked on heroin by 18. You're always being looked at, you're always being judged.
Life is hard.
There's a lot of things to throw you off. When you use drugs you feel on top of the world. I've thrown my life away and I refuse to do it anymore. He says he has been clean for a year. Paula, a 15-year crack smoker, is about a month into her second stay at Walden House.