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Im going out there to relapse in a few days and be back here within a few months. its the unknown, you know what i mean? the probability of me going and returning to society doing the same thing ive always done is high, you know what i mean? the chips are definitely stacked against me. i want to change. i want to do something different. sometimes its just tough. you know? >> a few hours later bubanas would have his chance for a fresh start. his charges were dismissed in court and he was set free...

I carry this around, i have one of these in my house and i have one in my car. i have a fear that my husbands going to relapse and im going to find him dead. you just put this in here and squirt it up their nose. >> now in most cases, as i understand it, theyre right out of it. >> theyre right out of it and theyre instantly sick. >> they dont wake up happy. but they wake up. >> but they wake up. >> somebodys blue there. >> on the floor. >> are you saving that life? >> yep, saving that life. abso...

Wasnt there. the example im trying to set is plain as day. i dont know what tomorrow holds but definitely my plan is to not fail. thats the plan, not to fail. >> thank you, father god. we magnify you. as we sit down and eat -- >> sam and mark are determined to stay clean, but heroin relapse is all too common and nearly 80% of drug offenders are eventually reincarcerated. no matter who you are, black or white, selling or using, once heroin takes hold, its hard to break free. and chicago is strugg...

The years that they needed me the most, i wasnt there. the example im trying to set is plain and day. i cant say what tomorrow holds because i dont know, but definitely my plan is to not fail. thats the plan, to not fail. >> sam and mark are determined to stay clean, but heroin relapse is all too common and nearly 80% of drug offenders are eventually reincarcerated. no matter who you are, black or white, selling or using, once heroin takes hold, its hard to break free. and chicago is struggling ...

The example im trying to set is plain as day. i dont say what tomorrow holds because, i dont know, but definitely my plan is to not fail. thats the plan. not to fail. thank you, father god, as we sit down and eat -- >> sam and mark are determined to stay clean, but heroin relapse is all too common. and nearly 80% of drug offenders are eventually reincarcerated. no matter who you are, black or white, selling or using, once heroin takes hold, its hard to break free. and chicago is struggling in th...

Out a different way to do his time in prison. and so he talked with me when he was up on the segregation unit and he said, you know, i really want a chance at the rtu unit, i want to start making changes in my life. you know, were pretty particular about who we take in. the bottom line on this unit is that there can be no violence. >> i think this unit is the vehicle that ive been waiting for. i think that im ready for it because now that my system is beginning to settle, this will be the best t...

You never know what youre going towards. im going out there to relapse in a few days and be back here within a few months. its the unknown, you know what i mean? the probability of me going and returning to society doing the same thing ive always done is high, you know what i mean? the chips are definitely stacked against me. i want to change. i want to do something different. sometimes its just tough. you know? >> a few hours later bubanas would have his chance for a fresh start. his charges we...

New york times" had sent me to rehab. i was so grateful, still am. and it was there that a therapist suggested i go back to something i was passionate about, which was gymnastics. in my eyes, i was a failure in j gymnastics. to go to that sport was to walk into humiliation. i went back to it in rehab i started doing handstands and pushups to gain a sense of what that would look like and this fire inside of me -- i should say a spark -- kind of ignited. >> reporter: no surprise, it felt pretty go...

This is heroin. they both virtually have the same effect on the brain. the most typical course, someone starts with pills like this, they get cut off, they turn to heroin, which is an illegal drug, but it works fast, gets you high, and it is very, very cheap. we now know that 80% of heroin users started off with pills like these. >> the question always arises, i think, with these sorts of programs, does it enable people to keep doing heroin? because, look, im not going to be criminalized, i got ...

That the possibility of a relapse was always waiting there for him in the wings. >> i managed to stay clean for a year and a half. and i was on -- amazing my life changed. i was performing on broadway. couldnt believe it, you know. heroin addict and here i am performing on broadway. >> reporter: but it was another visit to the dentist, another prescription, this time for vicoden. and then -- >> i took it as prescribed. within four hours i was shooting hero heroin. >> four hours. >> yeah. on broa...