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My mind is dope. >> chad is living at the salvation army in downtown tampa and says he's looking for work. >> part of my motivation and my strength is my wife that's locked up doing time for something that i probably influenced her under it. and i regret every single minute of that and either i can sit and wall low in it and go back to her, because that's all wallowing and [ bleep ], it makes you go back to doing drugs when you're a heroin addict or say, okay, i'm going to make sure this is better, make sure this doesn't happen again and if it doesn't happen again i have nowhere else to go but...

Is often difficult. >> we've been to counselors, we've been to mediation, we've been to hospitals, we've been to all kinds of drug rehabs and this and that. just nothing ever worked. >> katie ellis' mother, janice, has come to visit her for the first time since katie's arrest for burglary and possession of drug paraphernalia. >> i still have mixed emotions, but i'm happy for her that she's in a clean environment, clean being off drugs. and hope she can make some positive turn in her life from here. >> janice lives in maine for most of the year and has been communicating with katie through lett...

Like, i don't know. i just don't know. >> the only reason i haven't visited my wife which would have been my number one priority is because i done have identification. i can't go visit her without an i.d. card. if i had an i.d., i would have been there an hour early and hoping to god that i got in and got to see her for the exact 40 minutes. >> chad was released on probation but couldn't find his i.d. when his personal property was returned to him upon his release. since the jail requires visitors to show one, he was unable to visit katie. >> broke my heart and it did make me down in the dumps...

Come home -- >> we're being proactive, searching for them and hopefully be a big deterrent. >> she did very well. this is the first time i had an opportunity to watch her work. that was great. >> while deputy bickerstaff and bencha are happy to work in the jail, chad white is happy to be out of it. he rumeturned to see his wife, katie ellis. during a visit, chad informed her he contracted hepatitis and she's likely to have it as well and should be tested as soon as possible. but katie has shown considerably less concern than chad. >> i'm not totally freaked out or scared or anything. just some...

Hepatitis "b" and "c" and she needs to go to the clinic in jail. >> because they shot heroin together, there's a good chance katie could have hepatitis as well. in fact, she could have given the decide to chad. >> when you were using, did you ever share needles? >> with my husband, yes. i've slipped up a couple other times. in pittsburgh it was really hard to get needles. so i remember there was one needle between four of us. yeah. pretty gross. luckily i don't have anything. i got tested here in jail. i was pretty worried. >> what did they test you for? >> hiv. i should probably, you know, ge...