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.
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.