Working with clients to break up a lifetime’s relationship with substances can never be easy – but it’s hard to imagine many more difficult circumstances to undergo detox than in prison.![ddn 130605](https://i0.wp.com/www.drinkanddrugsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/13062005.png?resize=205%2C270&ssl=1)
There’s everything to play for in giving up, but the conditions are made harsher by the absence of family support and the usual optional distractions of modern life. On the 12-step RAPt programme, inmates are brought face to face with the most painful acknowledgment that they have put family and friends in second place – see our feature on page 6.