officer lopez is one of the supervisors of the drc. let s not get lax. the gentlemen here wake up at 6:00 in the morning. should there be no radios, right, in group? and a lot of people who are not used to the structure think that it s military. we don t run it like that, but i say things one time, and i expect it to be done. for them that s military, for anybody else, that s normal behavior. and we have a lot of people come in here thinking this program is one way and after 90 days they re totally different people. william says he can testify to that. it s a good feeling to have my spirit come back to life because i was dead coming in here. serving four months for theft and robbery, he s about to complete the 90-day program. in a few days he ll be released from jail and continue his recovery in a residential drug treatment program. today drug abuse counselor sam watson will honor his achievement with a special
would have never thought that my life would have come to this. you know, i lived a pretty good life growing up. family loved me and people cared about me. had a lot of friends. i had a girlfriend for the past four years. we broke up about eight months ago because of my using. i was engaged to her. and just, i chose the drugs. i chose the drugs over her. aaron sofield continues to do time in the bergen county jail s drug rehabilitation center while awaiting sentencing on charges for theft and forgery. chow up, last call. it s a tightly run program with a strict daily regimen that inmates must adhere to for 90 days or they re dropped. we have 50% rules in our
thankful for him. he put that structure back in my life. being in jail has got me clean now for 2 1/2 months, and i don t think i ve ever been that clean in over four years. my body is kicking back to, you know, a normal cycle, which is a good thing because for a while i thought i wasn t going to be able to have children. alyssa schlossberg has also had a heroin addiction. she s currently charged with distribution of cocaine and hopes to take part in the state s court drug program. schlossberg would need to plead guilty, but then instead of jail or prison time, she d be sent to an inpatient facility and follow protocol for drug testing for as many years as the court deem necessary. i went into the kitchen and tomorrow them that you didn t receive a tray today. i didn t know that. you knew what you were doing.
facility. it s kind of funny. but if they don t have their keys on them or their locks on their lockers or if they leave the books out or chairs down, we want them focused, we want them thinking. we don t want them too comfortable. we want them always working on themselves. sofield, however, faces an additional challenge. i m 6 3 and my feet hit this thing when i try to sleep. you wake up every time you try to turn. it s freezing. i fall asleep and have drug dreams. that s just natural. if you re not having drug dreams, then you re not using drugs. sofield has battled addiction to heroin over the past several years and believes if he doesn t get clean this time, he ll lose the support of his family and everything else he values. mr. lopez, the co in charge of the program, i give him a lot of respect. he s put up with a lot of [ bleep ] nonsense in this place. people coming to him complaining about this, complaining about that. but i m thankful, really
change is on the horizon. it is not going to be any different than the recent past has been. unfortunately. that s just i m just being honest. i see me getting out of here, getting high, unfortunately. and if she s around me, whether she wants to or not, she ll probably go back to it too. i know he s going to complete this program for me, because he knows that i don t want to be away from him ever again after this. it doesn t matter if he wants to get high, he s not going to. coming up the prosecutor and the judge told me i could leave, and the time served, you know. basically, it s get out. aaron sofield asked to stay in jail, while thomas costa and alyssa schlossberg make important decisions about their futures as well. i wanted more from my copd medicine that s why i ve got the power of 1 2 3 medicines with trelegy. the only fda-approved 3-in-1 copd treatment.