it s not good. i want to get this to work this time. i don t want to have to do this again. to accommodate his request, the judge gave him a longer sentence than he normally would have, 180 days. but sofield is eligible for early release upon successfully completing the program. what have you learned in here about addiction? the main thing i ve learned is that i can t do it by myself. my thinking has changed since i ve been in here. i totally don t think the same way i did when i first came in here. aaron has a better chance than most of the guys we have in here. we has a very supportive large family. he s bright, he s got college, he has a driver s license, a place to live, a car. that s more than many of the people who leave here have. getting better is making a decision. it doesn t just happen. it s saying, you know, i m not going to pick up a drink or a drug, i m going to get the help i need. yes, sir. all right, good luck. and we ll see you. we ll see you during the we
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 token. this coin is really a token of your ability to cope. it has no intrinsic value itself, but coping and completing this program in 90 days is a very difficult task. so the ability to get through it without getting written up and kicked out is important. i wish you all the best on your journey, and i hope that you put the same effort into discovery house that you did here. okay? thank you. thanks. you feel good to see somebody come in on day one and see the change in them. if we get too good at this, i ll be put out of a job, but that s okay. i ll find something else to do. prior to his release, he must complete one more task provide an orientation to the inmate who will take his spot in the drc, aaron sofield. grab two sets of blues and
we connect on a different level. i m not going to lie. a tear came to my eye. i kind of got choked up a little bit. because she figured out the same way i figured it was me. we re on the same wavelength. i don t know who would have picked up on that kind of thing, but we did. coming up you ll see that most heroin users are really close to their moms. an insight into a unique aspect of bergen county s heroin problem. that s why i call it a mama s boy drug. one inmate in the rehab center thrives while another is forced to drop out. he s a guy i can t have back here. to me, what he did was that serious. unfortunately he blew his shot. earlier fresher harder and yeah, even on sundays. if that s not what you think of when you think of the united states postal service, watch us deliver. who knows, one of these kids just might be the one. to clean the oceans,
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 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
users are really close to their moms. so that s why i call it mama s boy drug. they ll actually give the money to the son and you ll hear the comment, i d much rather give him the money to buy heroin so he don t have to go on the streets and steal and rob for it. sometimes i ve heard cases in here where the mother actually drives them to the spot where they pick up their heroin. that s why it s a mama s boy drug for me. at 22 years old michael still have boyish looks but said he his mother didn t pay for his heroin and said she didn t realize he was shooting. hit the same spot about a hundred times. even my mom was my mom never knew i was doing heroin because i never left track marks. he said he started using heroin at age 15. he was well on his way to completing the center s rehab program but recently he signed himself out in order to avoid being kicked out and is back in