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Prison Addiction Program Might Be Hard to Sustain On The Outside
By nhpr.org- Emily Corwin
Published: 08/04/2015

Chris Rocket has been in prison for 19 years. His convictions are for 2nd degree murder and robbery. The crimes, he says, were the result of an alcohol addiction.

His addiction to heroin and prescription drugs?

He got hooked on those while incarcerated at the state prison in Berlin.

“Somebody would just offer it to me and I would mostly say yes,” Rocket says in a phone interview from the prison. “It's so prevalent on a daily basis you can find it. It’s always around no matter where you are.”

Rocket just graduated from a substance abuse treatment unit at the Berlin prison, where his treatment consisted of group therapy several days a week.

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