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what you need to keep doing to keep it happening for you.” Green has praise for the entire drug court team, as well, which includes caseworkers and counselors to support people and help them stay on track. “Drug court is one of the best things that ever happened to me,” Green says. “I’ve been to treatment many times … and I’ve been to jail many times. In treatment, incarcerated. And … they all forced me. It was like, ‘do this or you go to jail.’ But in drug court, it’s like, they asked what they can do to help you. You make all your own choices. And say for instance, you slip up. I mean, if you’re a drug addict you’re probably going to slip eventually. You’re not going to jump and just become clean automatically. It’s going to be some slips, there’s going to be some bumps in the
road and in drug court, they don’t put you in jail for that … They made me feel like they wanted to help me more than I wanted to help myself until, until I got to the point to, I want to help myself just as much.” Green is now in a recovery program called 5 Door, and living in a sober house. He says he likes to help other people in the program out, giving them rides to appointments and meetings. He goes
to play chess at the Vernee Nycole House of Beauty barbershop on South Park Street nearly every day. And he still attends drug court sessions once a week. “Being around
something like that’s what helped me get on track,” he says. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right?”
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