He says he's been fired by the same employer three times and has squandered every penny he's earned on drugs. Moving to a different neighborhood, surrounding oneself with friends and family who avoid drugs and alcohol and recommitting oneself to recovery every single day. But staying clean is a daily battle. Robert reaches into the group of celebrating residents after it was announced that several members of their class were promoted to the next level at Walden House. If you use drugs, you're dead already.
People get addicted to relieving themselves.
Giving up on life is drug addiction. Talon quit treatment less than three weeks later. Angelique, the mother of 10, stayed at Walden House for five months before graduating to a halfway house where she was supposed to be reunited with her kids. She disappeared two days later.