0:00:03 > 0:00:06In Sheffield, 12 families live together.
0:00:06 > 0:00:10This programme contains some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting.
0:00:10 > 0:00:12But these are no ordinary families.
0:00:12 > 0:00:14LAUGHTER
0:00:14 > 0:00:16And this is no ordinary house.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20This is the only family rehab in the UK.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24This is about your recovery.
0:00:24 > 0:00:26This is about your children.
0:00:27 > 0:00:29More children than ever are being taken into care
0:00:29 > 0:00:32because their parents are addicted to drugs or alcohol.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34CHILD CRIES
0:00:34 > 0:00:36This place believes in giving them a second chance.
0:00:38 > 0:00:43My mum said, before she got into rehab, failure is not an option.
0:00:43 > 0:00:44Say bye.
0:00:44 > 0:00:45Unlike any other rehab,
0:00:45 > 0:00:48it helps mums and dads give up their addiction
0:00:48 > 0:00:50while they care for their children.
0:00:50 > 0:00:54My mum told me she would do whatever she could.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56I want to get you back.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59Happy birthday, Mum. Thank you.
0:00:59 > 0:01:00Recovery will be tough.
0:01:01 > 0:01:03I'm sorry!
0:01:03 > 0:01:06But these parents know if they don't get clean,
0:01:06 > 0:01:09they'll lose their children for good.
0:01:09 > 0:01:10This is not a bail hostel.
0:01:10 > 0:01:12You don't choose to stay in bed all day.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15Following six months of treatment,
0:01:15 > 0:01:18this is the story of addicted families
0:01:18 > 0:01:21facing the hardest challenge of their lives.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24Right now, your placement with your son hangs in the balance
0:01:24 > 0:01:26over the next seven days.
0:01:26 > 0:01:30Trying to take my kid, mate. Over my dead body.
0:01:30 > 0:01:31If somebody wants to play games,
0:01:31 > 0:01:33go and play them somewhere else,
0:01:33 > 0:01:34because the stakes are too high here.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47At Phoenix Futures Family Service,
0:01:47 > 0:01:50parents and children stay in a therapeutic community,
0:01:50 > 0:01:51confronting addiction together.
0:01:53 > 0:01:57It's not easy to break the cycle of addiction.
0:01:57 > 0:01:58The parents are often motivated by the fact
0:01:58 > 0:02:01that they're here with the children.
0:02:01 > 0:02:03They're their inspiration for them to stay clean,
0:02:03 > 0:02:06to make positive changes, cos ultimately
0:02:06 > 0:02:09they don't want to risk losing their children.
0:02:09 > 0:02:13What we're offering is a chance to stay together as a family,
0:02:13 > 0:02:15children to remain with parents.
0:02:15 > 0:02:20The alternatives are, unfortunately, that children will be removed...
0:02:20 > 0:02:21Erm...
0:02:21 > 0:02:24and put into foster care or adoption.
0:02:25 > 0:02:30When mums and dads come to us, the parenting's all over the place,
0:02:30 > 0:02:34their emotions are all over the place,
0:02:34 > 0:02:35and this is the place
0:02:35 > 0:02:37they need to be in order to give them...
0:02:39 > 0:02:42the best opportunity to change their lives.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48Been a bit of a nightmare journey, has it? Yeah.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51Most parents seeking treatment at Phoenix are mothers,
0:02:51 > 0:02:53and today there's a new arrival.
0:02:54 > 0:02:58Tracie from Lancashire is a mother of eight.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01She's come with her youngest, a two-year-old boy.
0:03:01 > 0:03:02Yeah, don't, just leave it there, Tracie.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04Honestly, don't worry about it.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06We'll all get it sorted. Let's get you in here first.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09What we need to do, as well, is sample you, OK?
0:03:09 > 0:03:10So obviously, we need to make sure
0:03:10 > 0:03:12that you've got medication that you use
0:03:12 > 0:03:15in order for us to be able to prescribe you.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18Do you? Yeah. OK. So, let's get your stuff sorted.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21Come on, then. Here we go.
0:03:21 > 0:03:23Tracie's had seven other children removed from her care.
0:03:25 > 0:03:28Her current addiction is to powerful opiate-based painkillers.
0:03:31 > 0:03:32This is Tracie, Sian.
0:03:32 > 0:03:34Nice to meet you. You too, love.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36Are you all right to take her for a cigarette?
0:03:36 > 0:03:38You're going to be opposite Sian in the room,
0:03:38 > 0:03:41so we thought it would be really nice, actually. Yeah. All right.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44Brilliant. Thank you. Come this way.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47So, how old's your little lad? About three?
0:03:47 > 0:03:49No, he's just turned two.
0:03:49 > 0:03:50Quite tall, isn't he?
0:03:50 > 0:03:52He were prem. Was he?
0:03:52 > 0:03:55Yeah, they said he had Downs Syndrome all the way through.
0:03:55 > 0:03:56Right. And he didn't.
0:03:56 > 0:03:57That was good then.
0:03:57 > 0:04:01So what are you in for, if you don't mind me asking?
0:04:01 > 0:04:04Just co-codamol, basically.
0:04:04 > 0:04:05I'm addicted to co-codamol.
0:04:05 > 0:04:07Right. Well bad.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10That is the worst thing I've ever been addicted to.
0:04:10 > 0:04:11The worst thing ever.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13It's bad.
0:04:20 > 0:04:24We're just searching our new admission's belongings.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27We're an abstinence-based service, so
0:04:27 > 0:04:31we don't want anybody bringing any drugs or alcohol in,
0:04:31 > 0:04:35which is not uncommon when somebody first comes into treatment, because
0:04:35 > 0:04:37they find it difficult to let go.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39So, Tracie's telling us she's got nothing on her
0:04:39 > 0:04:42that she shouldn't have, and so far we've not found anything.
0:04:42 > 0:04:44It's bad, so it's my last chance.
0:04:44 > 0:04:46I've got to prove I can do this.
0:04:46 > 0:04:49I've come in this side and then by the time you've finished,
0:04:49 > 0:04:51you'll watch me come out a better person.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53A different person. You've caught me at the wrong time,
0:04:53 > 0:04:55with no make-up on. SHE LAUGHS
0:04:59 > 0:05:00Did you want me?
0:05:02 > 0:05:04My stomach is ripping.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06Two of them?
0:05:06 > 0:05:07Yeah.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09The programme has three stages.
0:05:10 > 0:05:14The first is to detox and overcome the physical craving for drugs.
0:05:15 > 0:05:19Tracie is given methadone, an opiate substitute.
0:05:20 > 0:05:24The dose will be gradually reduced until, after a month,
0:05:24 > 0:05:25she'll be substance-free.
0:05:27 > 0:05:28Withdrawing is tough.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31Not everyone will make it to the next stage.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33Ripping pains right through my stomach.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38Pains like I'm in slow labour.
0:05:38 > 0:05:42Pains that I've not had since giving birth.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51There are many rules to adjust to in the house.
0:05:52 > 0:05:56While parents detox, they can only go out under strict supervision.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59Mobile phones are banned
0:05:59 > 0:06:03and contact with the outside world is restricted.
0:06:03 > 0:06:05Just hang on a second. BABY CRIES
0:06:05 > 0:06:07Look, let's speak to Daddy. Ready?
0:06:07 > 0:06:09BABY CRIES
0:06:09 > 0:06:11Yeah. Oh!
0:06:12 > 0:06:16When I've done here, I'll be totally dependent on nothing.
0:06:16 > 0:06:19Well, I got my medication last night, my methadone.
0:06:19 > 0:06:20SHE SNIFFS
0:06:22 > 0:06:25I'm just scared. I don't know.
0:06:25 > 0:06:26I'm just frightened and scared.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30SHE SOBS
0:06:30 > 0:06:31Bye.
0:06:32 > 0:06:35So... I have never been as bad as this now. Yeah.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38And that is quite common.
0:06:38 > 0:06:40This is the longest I've done without them. Yeah.
0:06:40 > 0:06:42Well, you know that the co-codamol is opiate-based?
0:06:42 > 0:06:44Yeah. Similar to heroin.
0:06:44 > 0:06:45But you're in safe hands.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48You're not just being asked to stop everything,
0:06:48 > 0:06:49cos that's not the right thing to do,
0:06:49 > 0:06:53so we're going to be doing it controlled and slowly,
0:06:53 > 0:06:54and with support.
0:06:54 > 0:06:58So, as scary as it is, just take one step at a time.
0:06:58 > 0:06:59I will. OK? Yeah.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01Yeah. Lots of fluids.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04Lots of food. Keep your energy levels up.
0:07:06 > 0:07:10She's got a long history of substance misuse.
0:07:10 > 0:07:12At 16 years old,
0:07:12 > 0:07:15she says that she was introduced to drugs
0:07:15 > 0:07:17by the father of her first child.
0:07:17 > 0:07:21It's the co-codamol that she's saying is the issue for her.
0:07:21 > 0:07:25She's taking in excess of about 20 tablets per day
0:07:25 > 0:07:27and she's been doing that for about ten years.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29What?
0:07:29 > 0:07:30Do this.
0:07:32 > 0:07:37Social Services became involved when Tracie was found overdosed,
0:07:37 > 0:07:40accidentally, and she was in charge of her son at the time
0:07:40 > 0:07:42and she was unresponsive.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44What they don't want to do this minute in time
0:07:44 > 0:07:46is remove the baby from her care.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48However, you know, it's one of the things that might happen
0:07:48 > 0:07:50if she doesn't make some changes.
0:07:55 > 0:07:56Want a strawberry.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00An important part of living as a community
0:08:00 > 0:08:04is learning from parents at a more advanced stage of treatment.
0:08:04 > 0:08:07Tracie shares a kitchen with Sian, who will be her mentor.
0:08:09 > 0:08:11Yeah, I'm coming now.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14You love peas, don't you?
0:08:14 > 0:08:16I always give him a choice. SHE LAUGHS
0:08:16 > 0:08:17Good boy.
0:08:19 > 0:08:20I took the amphetamine to help cope
0:08:20 > 0:08:22with seven kids and cleaning the house...
0:08:22 > 0:08:24TAP RUNS
0:08:24 > 0:08:26..because I knew they'd be knocking on my door.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29But before that, I must admit, I was only ex...
0:08:29 > 0:08:30PIECE OF CUTLERY DROPS
0:08:30 > 0:08:33Sugar. 17 or 18 when I started it with Lee and Peter's dad
0:08:33 > 0:08:35and Leelee was only a baby.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37And the first time I had it, I liked it, so I were like...
0:08:37 > 0:08:40I did heroin. I loved the feeling it gave me. What's it like?
0:08:40 > 0:08:43You know when you have a drink of whisky when you're younger?
0:08:43 > 0:08:45I don't like whisky. Well, you know when you've had shorts
0:08:45 > 0:08:47when you were younger and it warms your inside?
0:08:47 > 0:08:49You can feel the warming sensation
0:08:49 > 0:08:51coming from your tummy all the way up your neck.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54Your face goes red-hot and everything, and then you're sick,
0:08:54 > 0:08:57well, some people are, but not a horrible sick.
0:08:57 > 0:09:01And it's good? But, then when you're on one, you can do anything.
0:09:01 > 0:09:04Do you know what I mean? Like, when you've had a certain amount of gear,
0:09:04 > 0:09:07you can get up, you can clean your house, you can do everything.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09It's when you're rattling, you need it,
0:09:09 > 0:09:12you can't even get up to make yourself a cup of tea.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15So, what does the crack do? Crack? I've often wondered this.
0:09:15 > 0:09:18It's a stimulant. It gets your heart beating faster.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20So why do people, like, take it?
0:09:20 > 0:09:22Why? Because it's a balance.
0:09:22 > 0:09:25One minute, you're down, like, you're, like, smacked-up.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27The next minute you're up there.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29Some people mix it together and inject it.
0:09:29 > 0:09:32I always wanted to know that. Right. I'm going.
0:09:32 > 0:09:34See you laters.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36Oh! Good, big mouth.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38That's nice. Clever.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41BABY CRIES
0:09:41 > 0:09:42Yeah. You like your bath, don't you?
0:09:44 > 0:09:47Sian, a mother of three, is here with her baby, Kayden.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51She's recovering from a 15-year addiction.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53I was 22 when I got into heroin.
0:09:54 > 0:09:58Coming from a little village, you're not very, er,
0:09:58 > 0:10:01wise to the world.
0:10:01 > 0:10:03I'd never even heard of heroin before.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06It took me three weeks to become addicted.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10At the time, all that I lived for was drugs.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14I'd get the kids up,
0:10:14 > 0:10:15get them ready for school...
0:10:17 > 0:10:19..leave the house at ten past eight to drop Nicole off
0:10:19 > 0:10:21at secondary school
0:10:21 > 0:10:24and then make my way to the dealer's,
0:10:24 > 0:10:26and I'd break my neck to get there.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29All my focus was on getting to that flat before
0:10:29 > 0:10:31anybody else got there.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36And come hell or high water, that's what I was going to do.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39I'd just get it and go home, erm...
0:10:41 > 0:10:44..and switch myself off from the world.
0:10:44 > 0:10:46Right. Pick your toys up.
0:10:46 > 0:10:50Having detoxed and being substance-free,
0:10:50 > 0:10:52Sian's earned an authorised visit.
0:10:54 > 0:10:56First year clean in 15 years, so...
0:10:58 > 0:10:59..it's quite something.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01Look! Who's that?
0:11:01 > 0:11:03Happy birthday, Mum!
0:11:03 > 0:11:05Thank you. Give me a kiss.
0:11:05 > 0:11:09Sian's daughters, 17-year-old Nicole and eight-year-old Ellie,
0:11:09 > 0:11:12are being cared for by family while she's in rehab.
0:11:13 > 0:11:15Nicole was just two when Sian started using heroin.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19We hope you like your cake.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22We put "Happy Birthday" in the middle.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25And then we put all the candles.
0:11:25 > 0:11:27You're 40, aren't you? LAUGHTER
0:11:29 > 0:11:31When she was using drugs, we was all in denial.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34Obviously, like, we didn't think she looked like a drug addict
0:11:34 > 0:11:36because we was used to seeing her like that.
0:11:36 > 0:11:39But then, looking back at her progress from when she
0:11:39 > 0:11:43first started rehab to now, what she looks like is a dramatic change.
0:11:43 > 0:11:46Like, I've got a photo on my phone and all of her cheekbones
0:11:46 > 0:11:49are standing out, her eyes are sunken into her head.
0:11:49 > 0:11:52She just looks poorly. She looks older than what she was.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56You're too young to play with that.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59I didn't give a shit if I looked a mess, if I stank of BO,
0:11:59 > 0:12:01if I didn't do my hair.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04As long as I could get in my car, get money and go out and score...
0:12:06 > 0:12:08..that's what I lived for.
0:12:08 > 0:12:12You said, "Will we ever see an end to this problem before we die?"
0:12:14 > 0:12:16You know, and then you start thinking
0:12:16 > 0:12:20about the children, what would their lives be? That's right.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24The main gain, I think, I've got out from my mum's drug use
0:12:24 > 0:12:29is not to take drugs, because I've seen what it's done to her life,
0:12:29 > 0:12:32I've seen what it's done to her so-called friends' lives...
0:12:33 > 0:12:36..so I know not to go down that path.
0:12:36 > 0:12:40If there's no end to this, I'm afraid we've got to finish
0:12:40 > 0:12:41it ourselves, ain't we?
0:12:41 > 0:12:44Cos you can't keep on going indefinitely like this forever
0:12:44 > 0:12:45and ever and ever. No, because it's taken over.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48That's right, because, I mean...
0:12:48 > 0:12:50It has been a big part of our life,
0:12:50 > 0:12:54that in some ways it's ruined it, hasn't it?
0:12:54 > 0:12:57I was fortunate in the respect that because my mum lived
0:12:57 > 0:13:01in the next street to me, this was before Kayden was born,
0:13:01 > 0:13:05that I'd go and drop Ellie and Nicole off there most days,
0:13:05 > 0:13:07say that I was going to the chemist or just nipping
0:13:07 > 0:13:09off to the shop, and...
0:13:10 > 0:13:11..I could go out for hours.
0:13:13 > 0:13:14My mum would be ringing my phone,
0:13:14 > 0:13:16wanting to know where I was and I wouldn't answer it
0:13:16 > 0:13:19because I didn't want it to spoil my buzz.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22And I became selfish.
0:13:24 > 0:13:28For a while, it was my mum that was more like a mum to my kids.
0:13:29 > 0:13:30Erm...
0:13:32 > 0:13:34I find that difficult to accept now.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39But I was quite a selfish person.
0:13:39 > 0:13:43No, you can't get down, can you, because you'll be dirty.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45Come here. Mum's got to go in a minute.
0:13:45 > 0:13:47Come on.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49My mum said, quite a few times before she got into rehab,
0:13:49 > 0:13:54"Failure is not an option," and she's stuck to that
0:13:54 > 0:13:56and that's why I'm proud of her, because I don't think my mum
0:13:56 > 0:13:59has really stuck to anything in her life before.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03You're not coming. SIAN LAUGHS
0:14:03 > 0:14:04I love you.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08Yeah? Have you enjoyed yourself, then?
0:14:08 > 0:14:09Are you glad you came?
0:14:14 > 0:14:18It costs around ?50,000 for a family to go through treatment -
0:14:18 > 0:14:20a bill usually met by their local authority.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24Key workers are responsible for reporting back
0:14:24 > 0:14:25to the social services.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29You will have a key session with me every week. Yeah.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33What I've done this morning, I've started looking through your
0:14:33 > 0:14:36placement contract, which you will have got a copy of.
0:14:36 > 0:14:37I haven't.
0:14:37 > 0:14:41Well, you can have a copy... All I got was that thing through the post.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43Yeah, well, that'll be this, placement plan.
0:14:44 > 0:14:46I got one of them, but I won't even... I didn't even open it.
0:14:46 > 0:14:47I got one of them, but I won't even... I didn't even open it.
0:14:47 > 0:14:48I do not open them letters.
0:14:48 > 0:14:51OK. Social services letters, I will not open.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53You need to be aware of what's going on.
0:14:53 > 0:14:58This is a plan which involves social services, us,
0:14:58 > 0:15:01you and your son.
0:15:01 > 0:15:04Erm, if you were to walk out...
0:15:04 > 0:15:07I couldn't survive. ..you wouldn't be able to leave with your son.
0:15:07 > 0:15:08Are you aware of that?
0:15:08 > 0:15:12Yeah. Yeah. But that means there's a lot of pressure on you as well.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15I didn't know I'd end up with all this, social services.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17If I'd have known that, I would've kept the implant in.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20I don't regret him, but if I'd have known that
0:15:20 > 0:15:22I wouldn't have got pregnant.
0:15:22 > 0:15:25And we'll leave it there, because I think you've done really well.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27Absolutely. Right, good for you. Sleep while you can,
0:15:27 > 0:15:29while your son's asleep. Thank you.
0:15:29 > 0:15:34I would imagine people would not understand why people repeatedly go
0:15:34 > 0:15:38on to have children when they've not looked after the first, the second,
0:15:38 > 0:15:40the third, the fourth.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43But whatever has happened, she will, no doubt,
0:15:43 > 0:15:46be carrying a lot of guilt and lots of issues about that.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49So, whilst she's focusing on her child,
0:15:49 > 0:15:53that's great, but we'll need to go back and maybe unpick some of her
0:15:53 > 0:15:58history and work through, sort of, that process of, you know,
0:15:58 > 0:16:02from child one to child eight, what went wrong.
0:16:02 > 0:16:06Why can't I be the mother to the rest of them children
0:16:06 > 0:16:08the way I'm mothering the baby?
0:16:09 > 0:16:13Surely they're going to resent me for that. I would if it was my mum.
0:16:13 > 0:16:18I'd be like, "You've dropped all of us here and you've still got one."
0:16:18 > 0:16:21I'd be angry, I'd be mad. I'd be like... I wouldn't speak to her.
0:16:23 > 0:16:27But some of the kids are like, "It's fine, Mum."
0:16:27 > 0:16:31Billy always says, when I say, "I'm sorry, I've been a bad mum."
0:16:31 > 0:16:32"You were never a bad mum."
0:16:35 > 0:16:39Tracie's other children are now aged between ten and 20.
0:16:39 > 0:16:4218-year-old Billy was at home with his mum and siblings
0:16:42 > 0:16:43until he was six.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47She'd drink at night. Weekends were worse,
0:16:47 > 0:16:51where she'd go to a pub and we'd get dragged along with her.
0:16:51 > 0:16:53And then she'd stay behind and then she'd go somewhere else,
0:16:53 > 0:16:57to her mate's party, and then she'd finally come home.
0:16:57 > 0:16:59So when they came stumbling in, it was just a case of,
0:16:59 > 0:17:02"Right, what can we do to terrorise them?"
0:17:02 > 0:17:04Get them out, quick as possible.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08It wasn't a bad place to live, it wasn't a bad family.
0:17:11 > 0:17:14Just too many children,
0:17:14 > 0:17:15not enough parenting.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20Billy was separated from his brothers and sisters
0:17:20 > 0:17:23when they were taken into care.
0:17:23 > 0:17:25Just wish she was there at times.
0:17:27 > 0:17:28But she couldn't have been, so...
0:17:30 > 0:17:32I think about 13, 14, I realised...
0:17:35 > 0:17:38..she weren't going to be there for a while and I weren't going to be
0:17:38 > 0:17:41with her until I was 18, until I was out of care.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45Are you going to hold these shoes?
0:17:48 > 0:17:51She always said to me that my brother is not going to go anywhere.
0:17:51 > 0:17:54And I believe her in that, I don't think he is.
0:17:54 > 0:17:55Thank the Lord.
0:18:06 > 0:18:07One...
0:18:08 > 0:18:10A new resident has arrived from London.
0:18:12 > 0:18:16Natalie has an 18-year addiction to heroin and crack cocaine.
0:18:17 > 0:18:21Her dad Keith has brought her to rehab after social services
0:18:21 > 0:18:25issued an ultimatum - get clean or risk losing your children.
0:18:25 > 0:18:30I managed to juggle my addiction and being a mum,
0:18:30 > 0:18:31but now it's caught up with me.
0:18:31 > 0:18:33Did you count all the beads, Anya?
0:18:33 > 0:18:35It's become more of a struggle...
0:18:37 > 0:18:40..emotionally, physically, mentally.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43Three, four, five, six!
0:18:43 > 0:18:46Natalie will go through treatment with her daughters Madison,
0:18:46 > 0:18:49aged three, and Anya, who's two.
0:18:50 > 0:18:54It doesn't mean to say that I've picked drugs over my children,
0:18:54 > 0:18:58it just means that I've struggled to face all my demons.
0:19:00 > 0:19:03For so long I've been controlled by either drugs
0:19:03 > 0:19:05or within a violent relationship,
0:19:05 > 0:19:09so I know to overcome drugs, I've got to overcome them.
0:19:10 > 0:19:12And I've been running away from them for years
0:19:12 > 0:19:16and I've always had an excuse not to face them.
0:19:16 > 0:19:18Because drugs is just easier.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21Nat is ashamed of herself.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23She's ashamed of the situation she's in.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26Um...
0:19:26 > 0:19:27She's ashamed to...
0:19:28 > 0:19:31..be honest and straight with me, in the past.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36I believe she's spoken more to her mother.
0:19:36 > 0:19:37But then her mother...
0:19:38 > 0:19:43..as mothers I believe do, protect their children more.
0:19:44 > 0:19:48She started to take drugs when she was 13 years of age,
0:19:48 > 0:19:51which spiralled into an addiction to heroin at the age of 18,
0:19:51 > 0:19:53and crack cocaine.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56She'd been using more frequently than the local authority knew about,
0:19:56 > 0:19:59so she was saying that she'd got a period of abstinence,
0:19:59 > 0:20:02so she was sticking just to her prescription.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04Quite interestingly, it's been revealed that she'd been
0:20:04 > 0:20:05using pretty much every day.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08So it was a little bit touch-and-go whether the local authority
0:20:08 > 0:20:11were going to pull the plug really, in terms of supporting her,
0:20:11 > 0:20:15and just go into proceedings and remove the children.
0:20:15 > 0:20:16I'm sorry!
0:20:19 > 0:20:22She was a manager at a children's nursery and she managed
0:20:22 > 0:20:25to hold that down quite well, until it was discovered that she'd
0:20:25 > 0:20:26got a heroin addiction.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29So obviously that became problematic, so she lost her job.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34Come on, then, shall we go and say goodbye to Grandad? Bye, Grandad.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39Natalie won't be allowed the distraction of any visitors
0:20:39 > 0:20:41until she's finished her month-long detox.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47Yeah, Mummy's putting the little light on, look.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50There we go. OK, so you've got the little light on.
0:20:50 > 0:20:52Right, lay down then.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55'You never give praise to an addict.
0:20:55 > 0:21:00'You'd always tell them that they're shit, they're scum, dirty, rotten,
0:21:00 > 0:21:02'bad parents.
0:21:02 > 0:21:04'But just because we're addicts doesn't mean to say
0:21:04 > 0:21:08'we have any different feelings or emotions than you do.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13'Sometimes you have to be at rock-bottom,
0:21:13 > 0:21:17'or life gets so bad and awful that you can turn things around
0:21:17 > 0:21:19'and reflect.'
0:21:26 > 0:21:29Take you in nursery? Nursery.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31Nursery. Nursery.
0:21:31 > 0:21:35The youngest children are looked after in the on-site nursery.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37Thank you, bye-bye. Love you.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40Excuse me, see you soon. Have a nice morning.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43And now their parents can concentrate on their recovery
0:21:43 > 0:21:46and the start of the second stage of treatment.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49They must attend daily group therapy sessions
0:21:49 > 0:21:52that openly discuss their past as addicts.
0:21:52 > 0:21:57What I'd like you to do, and write on the back of this sheet of paper,
0:21:57 > 0:22:01is to think back to a specific day where you were using heavily.
0:22:01 > 0:22:05To look at how much substances, kind of,
0:22:05 > 0:22:06were a priority in your life.
0:22:08 > 0:22:11Between about half seven and nine in the morning,
0:22:11 > 0:22:14I'd just be chilling on the sofa whilst the girls are
0:22:14 > 0:22:16watching CBeebies...
0:22:16 > 0:22:18and waiting for the dealer to come on again.
0:22:20 > 0:22:23Once the girls were at nursery, I'd probably be scoring all day,
0:22:23 > 0:22:26maybe up to five, six times a day.
0:22:26 > 0:22:27At times, I become paranoid,
0:22:27 > 0:22:31I started hallucinating and thinking things were crawling over me.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35Just cos I'd been smoking, honestly, nonstop.
0:22:37 > 0:22:40I wouldn't eat and sleep for days.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42I'd be vomiting.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45But that's the thing that got me to the doctors,
0:22:45 > 0:22:46cos I kept on passing out.
0:22:46 > 0:22:50Right. So how do you feel looking at you today?
0:22:52 > 0:22:53Shit.
0:22:53 > 0:22:54Sorry.
0:22:56 > 0:22:57Cos I love my kids.
0:23:01 > 0:23:04It's not trying to make them feel bad or anything, but ultimately,
0:23:04 > 0:23:07they need to realise what they were doing
0:23:07 > 0:23:11before coming in and why it's not OK.
0:23:11 > 0:23:13Tell me, what's going on?
0:23:13 > 0:23:15Why are we being silly today?
0:23:15 > 0:23:19Cos people might try and glorify it a bit and justify it a bit,
0:23:19 > 0:23:21but actually you can't do that.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24You need to strip it back and really see it for what it was,
0:23:24 > 0:23:26cos it's not glamorous at all.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29Please go play outside, darling, She's having time-out.
0:23:30 > 0:23:34Parenting in itself is the hardest thing in the world,
0:23:34 > 0:23:40so when somebody is distracted by substances, relationships,
0:23:40 > 0:23:41other things going on,
0:23:41 > 0:23:45the children don't get the emotional attention
0:23:45 > 0:23:47and availability of parents,
0:23:47 > 0:23:50and that is very often the hidden harm, I guess,
0:23:50 > 0:23:52because that's what you can't see.
0:23:54 > 0:23:56Darling, I'm not going to fight with you about the chair.
0:23:56 > 0:23:59You need to let it go. SHE CRIES
0:23:59 > 0:24:03Natalie often went out
0:24:03 > 0:24:07and left the children in the house alone,
0:24:07 > 0:24:09for hours on end.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13Upon arrival, Natalie had quite a battle with the elder child
0:24:13 > 0:24:18because she quite rightly, had assumed herself the boss.
0:24:18 > 0:24:22Because, you know, on occasion, she had been the boss.
0:24:22 > 0:24:26So obviously, when they came to the family service
0:24:26 > 0:24:28and Mum suddenly became the boss,
0:24:28 > 0:24:31she had several dirty protests,
0:24:31 > 0:24:34such as pooing on the carpet,
0:24:34 > 0:24:39pooing on the kitchen table, to stamp her authority.
0:24:39 > 0:24:40Can I have a cuddle?
0:24:42 > 0:24:45Thank you, because I really don't want to have to make you
0:24:45 > 0:24:46sit on the chair again, OK?
0:24:49 > 0:24:52Hello. See, I told you I wouldn't be long, didn't I?
0:24:54 > 0:24:56If Natalie is to keep her kids,
0:24:56 > 0:25:00she must conquer her addiction and prove she can give them the care
0:25:00 > 0:25:02and stability they need.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06People will ask why you couldn't stop.
0:25:06 > 0:25:08You know, "You nearly lost your children."
0:25:08 > 0:25:09Um...
0:25:09 > 0:25:13I put myself, my family, my children at danger.
0:25:13 > 0:25:15I was unable to provide.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19I put myself in risky situations, my children.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26And I experienced violence, intimidation...
0:25:28 > 0:25:30..and abuse.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32And I just couldn't do it no more.
0:25:32 > 0:25:36I was physically, emotionally, mentally tired.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39INTERVIEWER: What might have happened had you carried on?
0:25:39 > 0:25:41I think I would be six foot under.
0:25:42 > 0:25:45Done, right. That's it, whisk it round gently.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47Let me do it.
0:25:47 > 0:25:50Got to get all those lumps out, darling.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53Darling? Mine! You do that after.
0:25:55 > 0:25:58Are we going? Mummy's got a headache, hasn't she?
0:25:58 > 0:26:00Are you going to John? Thanks.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02How are you doing?
0:26:02 > 0:26:05Tracie is nearing the end of her detox.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08But she's finding the month-long withdrawal tough.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11Because I have to go and drink this crap, Methadone.
0:26:11 > 0:26:14Because I've never been on it and I've always known it to be
0:26:14 > 0:26:17for heroin users and stuff.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19I've never touched heroin, why am I on this crap?
0:26:21 > 0:26:22Put the bike back, good boy.
0:26:26 > 0:26:27It makes me feel dirty.
0:26:29 > 0:26:33Once the Methadone has finished and that detox potentially has ended,
0:26:33 > 0:26:36that's often where people really sort of dip,
0:26:36 > 0:26:40in terms of their wellbeing, especially emotionally,
0:26:40 > 0:26:42and that's when they're at their most vulnerable
0:26:42 > 0:26:45and we're at risk of losing them at that point.
0:26:45 > 0:26:47In prison we've got a snooker table,
0:26:47 > 0:26:49we can eat in our room, we can have a fag, do whatever.
0:26:49 > 0:26:50Here, I'm missing the bars, Jess.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53But this isn't prison, this is treatment.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56Treatment? It doesn't feel like it, it feels like being punished.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59This is... I know it is, but I stay.
0:26:59 > 0:27:00It is.
0:27:02 > 0:27:03This is what?
0:27:03 > 0:27:05This is my last day, Jess. I know it is.
0:27:07 > 0:27:10And there is no stopping me. I will ring them social services.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13No, I can't do it.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17Yeah, taking my boy it's going to hurt me.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19For how long?
0:27:19 > 0:27:22I'll get over it, I'll drink, I'll do something.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24I can't do this, Jess, it's worse than a prison.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27Where is the support here? There's no support, Jess.
0:27:31 > 0:27:33So you don't want to be here?
0:27:33 > 0:27:36I'm going to go and get smashed out of my head and drink.
0:27:36 > 0:27:40OK. If you would normally turn to alcohol or drugs,
0:27:40 > 0:27:44for comfort or to block the pain... Block the pain.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46..or hide the fear or whatever,
0:27:46 > 0:27:51it's natural that you're going to feel like you want to do that.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54And that may be something that happens more than once,
0:27:54 > 0:27:56it may be something that happens in the future.
0:27:56 > 0:28:00What you're here to do, is look at how you cope and manage with
0:28:00 > 0:28:03those kind of situations. Yeah.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06And a lot of that is done through the groups, your key sessions,
0:28:06 > 0:28:08your life story work.
0:28:09 > 0:28:13Because beating yourself up continually, because of the guilt,
0:28:13 > 0:28:17will do what to you? Because it's that painful. It's like, Tracie,
0:28:17 > 0:28:20just give me... I don't know that it'll always go, or that it'll go
0:28:20 > 0:28:23completely. It won't go completely. What it will do,
0:28:23 > 0:28:26is you'll learn how to accept... To cope with it. Yeah.
0:28:26 > 0:28:29..that, you know, that is gone,
0:28:29 > 0:28:32and that you can't go back and make those changes in the past.
0:28:32 > 0:28:35What you can do now is shape your future,
0:28:35 > 0:28:37with all your kids, your relationships.
0:28:40 > 0:28:45She's just sad and she's just guilty about her eldest children and...
0:28:47 > 0:28:50..she just needs to be able to share that and work through it.
0:28:52 > 0:28:56Tracie's oldest child, Leelee, helped to raise her siblings
0:28:56 > 0:28:58when Tracie was incapable.
0:28:58 > 0:29:00Leelee basically mothered my kids.
0:29:01 > 0:29:04Being a mum at the age of eight, that's not nice.
0:29:05 > 0:29:08It's not nice. So Leelee's had it hard.
0:29:08 > 0:29:10I've never known a child to have it so hard like that.
0:29:10 > 0:29:12Bring six kids up, but you're eight years old?
0:29:12 > 0:29:14Wow!
0:29:14 > 0:29:16Stay off school cos your mum can't cope.
0:29:16 > 0:29:18"I'll pay you to stay off school, Leelee."
0:29:18 > 0:29:20Cos I used to miss her going to school.
0:29:20 > 0:29:24"I'll give you 20 quid, come on, let's go down town."
0:29:24 > 0:29:25Mums don't do that.
0:29:32 > 0:29:33Last one!
0:29:35 > 0:29:37Natalie has successfully detoxed.
0:29:37 > 0:29:39No, there's no more!
0:29:39 > 0:29:41It's all gone!
0:29:41 > 0:29:44Yeah. Yay! There you go. Thank you. You're welcome.
0:29:44 > 0:29:46You've laid the first layer for Natalie,
0:29:46 > 0:29:48she's got a lot of work to do.
0:29:48 > 0:29:50No more medicines!
0:29:51 > 0:29:54Her years of addiction have suddenly caught up with her
0:29:54 > 0:29:57and it's all kind of overwhelming.
0:29:57 > 0:30:00But Natalie has very little self-belief and a lot of issues.
0:30:01 > 0:30:05Not just substance misuse issues, relationship issues,
0:30:05 > 0:30:08emotional ill-health issues, all sorts of things
0:30:08 > 0:30:11that she will have to continue working on.
0:30:13 > 0:30:16Natalie's dad is visiting,
0:30:16 > 0:30:18as she's confronting emotions that have come to the surface
0:30:18 > 0:30:21now she's drug-free.
0:30:21 > 0:30:24Of what you're writing down, your feelings, I'd like to know more.
0:30:24 > 0:30:27I just don't want to hurt you, Dad.
0:30:27 > 0:30:30That's...
0:30:30 > 0:30:32That's something that I've got to cope with.
0:30:32 > 0:30:37The thing is, I want to share your feelings...with me.
0:30:37 > 0:30:39Yeah?
0:30:39 > 0:30:43And that way I can understand you more and realise what the whole
0:30:43 > 0:30:45situation has been about, yeah?
0:30:45 > 0:30:48After you left, I was not taught...
0:30:48 > 0:30:52You mean when we got divorced? Me and your mum, yeah.
0:30:52 > 0:30:56Yeah, when you guys left, it was OK to drink, it was OK to do drugs.
0:30:58 > 0:31:01Um...I know, because you came with me, didn't you?
0:31:01 > 0:31:04No, no, when I went with Mum... Right. ..that's what I'm saying,
0:31:04 > 0:31:08I was coming home drunk and she'd laugh. I was going in pissed,
0:31:08 > 0:31:11drunk to school, she'd laugh.
0:31:11 > 0:31:13You know, she had me rolling joints.
0:31:13 > 0:31:16You know, and to me it was OK. Yeah.
0:31:16 > 0:31:17She was going out,
0:31:17 > 0:31:21she was going through that party stage and so I thought,
0:31:21 > 0:31:24"Well, the only thing to cope with all this, and all this and all that,
0:31:24 > 0:31:26"is just to block it out."
0:31:26 > 0:31:29Yeah. Because I couldn't find a way out.
0:31:29 > 0:31:32People go through things, you know, and they have to cope with them.
0:31:32 > 0:31:35They have to get themselves back together, so...
0:31:37 > 0:31:39In my mind initially, one would say,
0:31:39 > 0:31:42"Well, why can't you cope with things?" Yeah?
0:31:42 > 0:31:45All I knew was my head was messed up.
0:31:45 > 0:31:49You know, from a young age, I'd just...I was put on antidepressants
0:31:49 > 0:31:51from...I was in my early 20s when
0:31:51 > 0:31:54they started putting me on antidepressants.
0:31:54 > 0:31:56You know, and...
0:31:56 > 0:32:01Now, because I've even just wrote that out, I can kind of,
0:32:01 > 0:32:04not let go of it, I know I still need to deal with it,
0:32:04 > 0:32:07but it's these things that... that's what I'm here to do.
0:32:15 > 0:32:18There's another Natalie with a troubled past who's seeking help to
0:32:18 > 0:32:20keep her family together.
0:32:21 > 0:32:24She sought refuge in drugs after
0:32:24 > 0:32:27being sexually abused as a child, by her uncle.
0:32:27 > 0:32:31I was a baby when abuse first started.
0:32:31 > 0:32:33A real, small baby. You know?
0:32:33 > 0:32:36And it went all the way up until I was a teenager.
0:32:38 > 0:32:41It was more than one person that had abused me, not just my uncle,
0:32:41 > 0:32:43but other people.
0:32:43 > 0:32:46And I said something once, but they didn't believe me.
0:32:49 > 0:32:54I was angry and I was sad, alone, I felt isolated.
0:32:54 > 0:32:58It built up to a point where I needed a release, and when I took
0:32:58 > 0:33:00drugs, I couldn't feel nothing.
0:33:00 > 0:33:02I didn't think about what happened.
0:33:05 > 0:33:09And the first time I ever took heroin, the feeling of oblivion,
0:33:09 > 0:33:12it was a really good feeling.
0:33:12 > 0:33:14Not feeling nothing.
0:33:16 > 0:33:22The hatred and the loathing I had of myself was so intense that,
0:33:22 > 0:33:26you know, I couldn't cope with that any more.
0:33:26 > 0:33:31So taking heroin, and that going-into-space feeling, was...
0:33:31 > 0:33:33it was amazing, at the time.
0:33:37 > 0:33:39Natalie has two sons -
0:33:39 > 0:33:41three-year-old Sunny and 14-year-old Jay.
0:33:41 > 0:33:44Let's do it!
0:33:44 > 0:33:46She wouldn't eat for say, two weeks, three weeks.
0:33:46 > 0:33:49I knew that one day, like,
0:33:49 > 0:33:52she isn't going to wake up, kind of thing.
0:33:52 > 0:33:54And I thought,
0:33:54 > 0:33:58"If she carries on the way she is, then it's going to be soon."
0:33:58 > 0:34:01But I didn't want to just wake up one day and then, like,
0:34:01 > 0:34:05the police would be standing at the door and they'd just be taking me
0:34:05 > 0:34:08and Sunny away from my mum. It was...it was very scary.
0:34:08 > 0:34:11It was sad as well. It was very sad.
0:34:14 > 0:34:18I looked after Sunny a lot of the time, because she wasn't well, and
0:34:18 > 0:34:21I would think, like, she would, like, forget that she's even with
0:34:21 > 0:34:24Sunny and leave him in the park and stuff like that.
0:34:25 > 0:34:29I didn't want anything bad happening to Sunny, or my family.
0:34:31 > 0:34:36I know that she ain't going to go back to drugs because of our family.
0:34:36 > 0:34:41We love her and she knows that, and she loves us.
0:34:41 > 0:34:43So I reckon that
0:34:43 > 0:34:45she wouldn't go back to it because of that reason.
0:34:45 > 0:34:48She wouldn't want our family broke apart again for drugs.
0:34:55 > 0:34:58Natalie A, as she's known in the house, has been in rehab with Sunny
0:34:58 > 0:35:03for two months while Jay stays behind with his dad.
0:35:03 > 0:35:06She volunteered to come here and got funding for a three-month course
0:35:06 > 0:35:08through her drug counsellor.
0:35:08 > 0:35:12But looking back at the experiences that led to her addiction is hard.
0:35:13 > 0:35:17One of the things that we do ask, is have a look at certain events
0:35:17 > 0:35:20that have taken place in their lives.
0:35:20 > 0:35:22Some of that looks like sexual abuse,
0:35:22 > 0:35:26it might be that their parents were substance misusers and they kind of
0:35:26 > 0:35:28experience maybe domestic abuse.
0:35:28 > 0:35:31They might be children themselves that have been in care.
0:35:31 > 0:35:35They could have felt abandonment, you know, the fact that they didn't
0:35:35 > 0:35:37have a sense of identity or belonging.
0:35:37 > 0:35:40The link between trauma and substance misuse,
0:35:40 > 0:35:43we can't ignore that actually, you know, it is a high factor.
0:35:44 > 0:35:47You weren't to blame for what your uncle did to you.
0:35:47 > 0:35:50And nobody can take that pain away from you, unfortunately,
0:35:50 > 0:35:52we can't take it away.
0:35:52 > 0:35:54But what we can do is help you to sort of work through.
0:35:56 > 0:35:58So how old were you when all of this stopped?
0:35:58 > 0:36:0015. OK.
0:36:00 > 0:36:03So it stopped at 15?
0:36:03 > 0:36:05When did you have your first relationship, then?
0:36:05 > 0:36:07I was 13. Right, OK.
0:36:07 > 0:36:12So nobody's ever been held to account for what they've done
0:36:12 > 0:36:14to you, and does that make you feel angry as well?
0:36:15 > 0:36:19To a certain extent, yeah, of course it does. Who are you angry at?
0:36:19 > 0:36:22The people who done it, people that didn't protect me.
0:36:22 > 0:36:25My mum, the police, you know?
0:36:26 > 0:36:30Myself, because I wasn't strong enough to stop it.
0:36:30 > 0:36:32Why do you think you're at fault,
0:36:32 > 0:36:35why do you think you could have done anything about that?
0:36:37 > 0:36:39I don't know... You were a child.
0:36:40 > 0:36:44And adults are supposed to be there to look after you, to care for you,
0:36:44 > 0:36:46to protect you, not to abuse you.
0:36:48 > 0:36:51Are you going to allow what's happened in the past to destroy
0:36:51 > 0:36:54your life? I can't, because anything that destroys mine,
0:36:54 > 0:36:57it destroys Jay's and Sunny's, too.
0:36:57 > 0:37:00It's making some sense of it all now and just working through.
0:37:00 > 0:37:03How do you start to move on with your life?
0:37:05 > 0:37:07So you'll get there in the end. Well done.
0:37:07 > 0:37:10Thank you. Go and get some air. Thank you, Alison.
0:37:10 > 0:37:14Speak to you later. Yeah.
0:37:15 > 0:37:18PLAYFUL YELLING
0:37:18 > 0:37:22Parents free of drugs for the first time in years must learn to resist
0:37:22 > 0:37:26temptation. At first, they're only trusted to be out while supervised.
0:37:27 > 0:37:31But Phoenix hope that experiencing the first taste of simple family
0:37:31 > 0:37:33pleasures will speed their recovery.
0:37:35 > 0:37:39A lot of them, they will never have done anything like this, because
0:37:39 > 0:37:42they would've been very tied to the home and where they are,
0:37:42 > 0:37:47because they'll need, you know, what they need.
0:37:47 > 0:37:51So it's about getting them out and showing what you can do, really.
0:37:51 > 0:37:53And, you know, people really genuinely enjoy it.
0:37:55 > 0:37:59I want them to see that there's life beyond substances.
0:37:59 > 0:38:02You know, using heroin day in, day out,
0:38:02 > 0:38:05is really a horrible way to live.
0:38:05 > 0:38:07Isolating, miserable.
0:38:07 > 0:38:09I just want them to understand that
0:38:09 > 0:38:11you don't have to live like that any more.
0:38:11 > 0:38:14LAUGHTER
0:38:14 > 0:38:17Being normal, it's exciting, it's ace.
0:38:17 > 0:38:21I always thought I'd never be able to have a life like this.
0:38:21 > 0:38:24But just watching, he's enjoying it.
0:38:25 > 0:38:29But, yeah, without medication, best life ever.
0:38:31 > 0:38:33This way. This way.
0:38:33 > 0:38:35Look.
0:38:35 > 0:38:39This way, babe. Let's go and get some pennies.
0:38:40 > 0:38:44Leaving the house without the staff is the next stage of trust.
0:38:46 > 0:38:48Random drug tests are carried out in the house.
0:38:50 > 0:38:53One reveals that Natalie A and another resident have used
0:38:53 > 0:38:56crack cocaine and heroin while out unaccompanied.
0:38:58 > 0:39:03I was at Tesco, and I see a man...
0:39:03 > 0:39:06I just went up to him and said to him, "Can you get me anything?"
0:39:06 > 0:39:09And it was literally an impulse that literally went through my brain,
0:39:09 > 0:39:11like that.
0:39:11 > 0:39:16And then I went up to a park up the road and done what I done.
0:39:19 > 0:39:21They went off to use the public toilet,
0:39:21 > 0:39:23and they took the kids with them,
0:39:23 > 0:39:27and they shared care of the children while they were using the drugs.
0:39:27 > 0:39:31Which is really sad for Sunny to be back in a situation where he's
0:39:31 > 0:39:33exposed to that and, you know,
0:39:33 > 0:39:36he's kind of seeing the emotion and the aftermath really, from Mum.
0:39:38 > 0:39:42All I wanted to do was escape from everything.
0:39:42 > 0:39:45From responsibility, from the whole programme,
0:39:45 > 0:39:48from all the thoughts in my head, cos my head sometimes gets
0:39:48 > 0:39:52really loud and then all the noise around me is just,
0:39:52 > 0:39:55it's overwhelming and I can't take it sometimes.
0:39:55 > 0:39:58And I just wanted everything to go quiet for a little bit.
0:39:58 > 0:40:02Dinger Mouse! It's not Dinger Mouse, it's Danger Mouse.
0:40:02 > 0:40:04When an addict in rehab lapses,
0:40:04 > 0:40:08it's thought to jeopardise the recovery of everyone else.
0:40:08 > 0:40:10Natalie must now face the group.
0:40:10 > 0:40:14Because of the events that happened at the end of last week, concerning
0:40:14 > 0:40:18Natalie, we can't just pretend it hasn't happened,
0:40:18 > 0:40:21because it's like an elephant in the room, isn't it?
0:40:21 > 0:40:22And personally,
0:40:22 > 0:40:25I want to try and help you with that, and I would hope that the rest
0:40:25 > 0:40:29of the community feel the same. Yeah. Yeah, definitely.
0:40:29 > 0:40:32You know, a craving is really strong, especially if you see it
0:40:32 > 0:40:35in front of you. But you still have the power of thought.
0:40:35 > 0:40:38You were still at that point where you could've turned your back and
0:40:38 > 0:40:41walked away. You're in recovery and lapses happen through recovery.
0:40:41 > 0:40:44How can a load of addicts that live together not understand that?
0:40:44 > 0:40:47That's what I don't... You seem quite angry, Nat. No...
0:40:47 > 0:40:49Why are you angry?
0:40:49 > 0:40:53I'm not angry. I just feel unsupported, for all of last week,
0:40:53 > 0:40:55and then that happened on Friday and then certain people are judging us
0:40:55 > 0:40:58on Friday night. I were disappointed in you.
0:40:58 > 0:40:59I hold my hands up, yeah, I were.
0:40:59 > 0:41:01I wasn't angry, I was disappointed in you, Natalie.
0:41:01 > 0:41:03But you don't have the right to be disappointed in me.
0:41:03 > 0:41:05What right do you have to be...?
0:41:05 > 0:41:07Well, I were disappointed. But what right do you have?
0:41:07 > 0:41:09Why has she got no right to be disappointed? Why?
0:41:09 > 0:41:12Because she doesn't have the right to be disappointed in me.
0:41:12 > 0:41:13I'm disappointed in me.
0:41:13 > 0:41:15My kids have the right to be disappointed in me.
0:41:15 > 0:41:17No-one else has the right to be disappointed in me.
0:41:17 > 0:41:19No-one else has the right to expect anything from me.
0:41:19 > 0:41:21No-one. OK. I felt disappointed.
0:41:21 > 0:41:24Why? I did feel disappointed. No-one else has the right to feel
0:41:24 > 0:41:27disappointed in me. It always... You know, I've been here a long
0:41:27 > 0:41:29time, and it always makes me feel upset.
0:41:29 > 0:41:31I'm already punishing myself enough.
0:41:31 > 0:41:35My own 14-year-old son understood the whole situation.
0:41:35 > 0:41:37He weren't angry. He wasn't disappointed.
0:41:37 > 0:41:40He was like, "It's OK, Mum. It happens. You're in recovery."
0:41:40 > 0:41:43How can a 14-year-old understand that and not one other person
0:41:43 > 0:41:46that's living in this house, doing the same thing as me,
0:41:46 > 0:41:48not understand that? How?
0:41:50 > 0:41:52I'm not sure where Natalie comes from, really,
0:41:52 > 0:41:56saying, "You've got no right to either be angry,
0:41:56 > 0:41:58"disappointed or upset with me."
0:41:58 > 0:42:02They have got every right to be angry and disappointed and upset,
0:42:02 > 0:42:03and they do feel that.
0:42:05 > 0:42:07Because she's used,
0:42:07 > 0:42:11Natalie's told she'll have to leave the house in a week unless her
0:42:11 > 0:42:14funders are persuaded she deserves a second chance.
0:42:15 > 0:42:19I have written a letter of appeal, which I wrote today...
0:42:20 > 0:42:24..and fingers crossed they choose to keep me in the service,
0:42:24 > 0:42:28because if they don't, then I don't know where things will end up.
0:42:29 > 0:42:32I'll probably end up back at square one, because it means going back to
0:42:32 > 0:42:35London, going back to that flat.
0:42:35 > 0:42:38You know, the same surroundings and that,
0:42:38 > 0:42:42and the boys being removed from my care.
0:42:43 > 0:42:45I wasn't angry with her.
0:42:45 > 0:42:49I was more glad that she had told me that she had relapsed than her
0:42:49 > 0:42:52keeping it to herself, cos then,
0:42:52 > 0:42:55if she wouldn't have told me, I wouldn't have been there to tell her
0:42:55 > 0:42:57that mistakes happen.
0:42:57 > 0:43:02She just needs to carry on going and just stay positive, and try her best
0:43:02 > 0:43:04not to relapse again.
0:43:11 > 0:43:13Before the week is up,
0:43:13 > 0:43:17both Natalie's drug worker and the Phoenix management come to a
0:43:17 > 0:43:20decision about whether she can stay on the programme.
0:43:21 > 0:43:23Take a seat.
0:43:23 > 0:43:28So, I wanted to obviously have a conversation with you, and it's
0:43:28 > 0:43:33important, of course, that we get this kind of decision to you, rather
0:43:33 > 0:43:37than leaving you waiting. So, based on what we think as a service,
0:43:37 > 0:43:41we are prepared to keep you here and continue to work with you.
0:43:41 > 0:43:45OK? Thank you. So, what that means for us is that we're going to be
0:43:45 > 0:43:47very clear with you about expectations. I agree.
0:43:47 > 0:43:51I'm really sorry for what I've done, and I know I made a big mistake.
0:43:51 > 0:43:54I messed up all of the hard work that I've done,
0:43:54 > 0:43:56but I promise you I will make it better.
0:43:56 > 0:43:59I will fix it. OK. SHE SOBS
0:43:59 > 0:44:01Thank you. OK.
0:44:01 > 0:44:04And let's get back on track. This is so important to me.
0:44:04 > 0:44:06Not just me, but to my boys as well,
0:44:06 > 0:44:09and over the weekend, I've really punished myself on this.
0:44:09 > 0:44:12I know what I done, and I will fix it and make it right.
0:44:12 > 0:44:15It's very serious, isn't it, you know, in the sense of, for you,
0:44:15 > 0:44:18the stakes are very high.
0:44:18 > 0:44:22You know, and I guess it's just happened at a time when you're in a
0:44:22 > 0:44:24supportive environment and we're able to support you and help you
0:44:24 > 0:44:27through that. And there's a lot more work I think that we need to do with
0:44:27 > 0:44:30you, Natalie. Yeah. But if it does happen again, then we will
0:44:30 > 0:44:33be in a position of asking you to leave almost immediately.
0:44:33 > 0:44:36Yeah, obviously. OK. I know. Thank you. All right.
0:44:38 > 0:44:40Yeah, that feels...
0:44:40 > 0:44:43That was overwhelming, because I don't believe a lot in myself,
0:44:43 > 0:44:45so because I don't have a lot of belief in myself,
0:44:45 > 0:44:48when someone's telling me that or saying to me that,
0:44:48 > 0:44:50"We'll give you another chance because we believe
0:44:50 > 0:44:51"that you can do this,"
0:44:51 > 0:44:54it's very overwhelming, very overwhelming.
0:44:55 > 0:44:59How do you know when somebody's going to do well or not?
0:44:59 > 0:45:02You don't. You can have somebody that's done really,
0:45:02 > 0:45:05really well in their treatment
0:45:05 > 0:45:09and is determined to change their life, and sustain those changes,
0:45:09 > 0:45:11leave and go back to
0:45:11 > 0:45:15their old habits, within hours and days of leaving.
0:45:15 > 0:45:16The six months is just a dress rehearsal.
0:45:16 > 0:45:19The hard work begins out in the community.
0:45:22 > 0:45:25Sian is at the end of her treatment, and is braced
0:45:25 > 0:45:28to return to her village. There she will face the temptation
0:45:28 > 0:45:32of drugs being easily available.
0:45:32 > 0:45:35The concerns that I have, um...
0:45:37 > 0:45:41..are just people...
0:45:41 > 0:45:43not respecting that I've been through rehab.
0:45:43 > 0:45:45As long as they get what they need,
0:45:45 > 0:45:47they're not bothered who they take down,
0:45:47 > 0:45:50and I was like that once as well.
0:45:50 > 0:45:53So the best thing I can do to give myself the best possible start is to
0:45:53 > 0:45:57not...not put myself in a vulnerable situation.
0:45:58 > 0:46:00The area that she grew up in,
0:46:00 > 0:46:02and it's the area where she got her drugs in,
0:46:02 > 0:46:06so she knows every location where to go and get her heroin from,
0:46:06 > 0:46:09but I do believe that she won't do it.
0:46:09 > 0:46:13Because quite a few of my mum's friends have had their kids
0:46:13 > 0:46:14taken off them.
0:46:18 > 0:46:21Sian will stay with her parents until she gets a place of her own.
0:46:21 > 0:46:23That's you done. Don't cry.
0:46:24 > 0:46:27She aims to stay clean
0:46:27 > 0:46:29and hopes to live with all her children again soon.
0:46:29 > 0:46:31Bye! Good luck!
0:46:35 > 0:46:39As families move through the programme, and some successfully
0:46:39 > 0:46:41leave with their children,
0:46:41 > 0:46:44those left behind take on fresh responsibilities.
0:46:44 > 0:46:47Right, come on, then. Let's do cleaning check.
0:46:48 > 0:46:51One important job is to make sure everyone's cleaning properly.
0:46:53 > 0:46:56Check the bin. All nice and clean.
0:46:56 > 0:46:58Can you write on this one? Tick!
0:46:58 > 0:47:00Tick! Tick! That's it.
0:47:00 > 0:47:02Clever girl.
0:47:02 > 0:47:06Anya, out the washing machine, please.
0:47:06 > 0:47:08Natalie's new-found self discipline
0:47:08 > 0:47:12has had a calming effect on the girls.
0:47:12 > 0:47:14Come and stand over here.
0:47:14 > 0:47:16I'm focused and determined.
0:47:17 > 0:47:21I think about my routine, what needs to be done by certain times.
0:47:21 > 0:47:24I follow that each and every day.
0:47:27 > 0:47:30But the final stage of treatment for Natalie
0:47:30 > 0:47:32will be her toughest task yet.
0:47:32 > 0:47:36She must write an honest and revealing account of her life to
0:47:36 > 0:47:38learn from past mistakes
0:47:38 > 0:47:41and so avoid resorting to drugs when troubled.
0:47:41 > 0:47:47It's just about letting go, letting go of shame, guilt, and moving
0:47:47 > 0:47:51forward, leaving the past where it is and being able to accept the
0:47:51 > 0:47:54decisions and bad situations you've been in.
0:47:57 > 0:48:01"I'm unable to remember a lot of fond memories from my early
0:48:01 > 0:48:04"childhood. There was domestic violence between Mum and Dad,
0:48:04 > 0:48:06"which I often witnessed.
0:48:06 > 0:48:10"It was very scary, especially as I was around five years old.
0:48:10 > 0:48:12"At the age of seven,
0:48:12 > 0:48:16"the violence got to a point where me and my mum and my brother went to
0:48:16 > 0:48:19"stay at my Uncle John's for a few nights.
0:48:19 > 0:48:23"It wasn't long after this when my mum and dad finally divorced.
0:48:23 > 0:48:26"From age 13, I started dating an older guy.
0:48:26 > 0:48:29"Seeing as he was five years older than me, I felt protected,
0:48:29 > 0:48:31"loved and safe, but looking back on it now,
0:48:31 > 0:48:33"I was just a child dating an adult.
0:48:33 > 0:48:35"I was searching for security and love.
0:48:37 > 0:48:40"I discovered drinking, tablets, shoplifting,
0:48:40 > 0:48:43"ecstasy, and often went to school drunk,
0:48:43 > 0:48:45"following a...swallowing a mouthful of pills.
0:48:45 > 0:48:48"During the club scene, I soon started on cocaine,
0:48:48 > 0:48:50"speed and poppers, and nonstop drinking.
0:48:52 > 0:48:56"One Saturday night, me and my friends went out clubbing.
0:48:56 > 0:49:02"That night I was...dragged into a flat by a man in his 30s,
0:49:02 > 0:49:05"and raped for the entire evening until the morning.
0:49:07 > 0:49:10"It finished when he threw me out with my ripped clothes, and told me
0:49:10 > 0:49:12"to get out once he opened the door.
0:49:15 > 0:49:16"Every...every day,
0:49:16 > 0:49:18"I felt resentment towards my mum." SHE SOBS
0:49:18 > 0:49:21"It took me six years to tell her about that night.
0:49:21 > 0:49:25"Her response didn't surprise me,
0:49:25 > 0:49:28"and began telling me that I probably deserved it."
0:49:33 > 0:49:34Congratulations.
0:49:34 > 0:49:37THE OTHERS APPLAUD
0:49:38 > 0:49:44It's all part of relapse prevention, and without the knowledge
0:49:44 > 0:49:49of triggers and cravings and how to cope without substances,
0:49:49 > 0:49:51there is more likelihood that somebody's going to relapse,
0:49:51 > 0:49:53and their life story,
0:49:53 > 0:49:57there are lots of things held within somebody's life story that are going
0:49:57 > 0:49:59to be triggers to them using.
0:49:59 > 0:50:03The variety and range of emotions that somebody's going to feel when
0:50:03 > 0:50:07they're writing that are enormous.
0:50:07 > 0:50:11It easier just to pick up a drink and swallow a handful of pills than
0:50:11 > 0:50:15what it is to deal with all these negative thoughts within your head.
0:50:15 > 0:50:19You know, and I'm trying to understand my own addictions,
0:50:19 > 0:50:23my own fears, anxieties, plus my own mental health.
0:50:23 > 0:50:25I'm trying to understand that,
0:50:25 > 0:50:29and some things are becoming clearer now, of how I couldn't manage that,
0:50:29 > 0:50:30and what led me to addiction.
0:50:33 > 0:50:37Oh, careful! Aah!
0:50:37 > 0:50:39Yeah, you be a good boy for your mum, yeah?
0:50:39 > 0:50:43Natalie A has decided she's got all she wants from rehab.
0:50:43 > 0:50:46Oh, careful! Careful!
0:50:46 > 0:50:49Despite recently succumbing to the temptation of drugs,
0:50:49 > 0:50:52she plans to leave immediately with Sunny.
0:50:52 > 0:50:55I'm ready for this. I need... I'm done here.
0:50:55 > 0:50:58I don't even... But you only had a relapse the other week.
0:50:58 > 0:51:00Hm? You only did that thing the other week.
0:51:00 > 0:51:04I think I needed that lapse to make me realise that I know that I'm
0:51:04 > 0:51:06strong enough to be without this.
0:51:06 > 0:51:08I done that and I knew it was the biggest mistake of my life,
0:51:08 > 0:51:10and I'm not going to make that mistake again.
0:51:10 > 0:51:11I've got way too much to lose.
0:51:11 > 0:51:13Well, you've got your head screwed on, haven't you?
0:51:13 > 0:51:14I'm not going to lie. I'm scared.
0:51:14 > 0:51:16Of course I am. I'm nervous.
0:51:16 > 0:51:18But I'm ready for the next challenge.
0:51:18 > 0:51:21I'm not sure she's fully thought that through.
0:51:21 > 0:51:22I will talk to her about it,
0:51:22 > 0:51:25but the way I see it at the moment is that she's completely made up her
0:51:25 > 0:51:28mind that this is her decision. She wants to leave.
0:51:29 > 0:51:33That's why I think it's important we can sit down and discuss the pros
0:51:33 > 0:51:35and cons, and the impact on Sunny,
0:51:35 > 0:51:37as well, which we have to take into account.
0:51:37 > 0:51:40Hello. Mm-hmm.
0:51:40 > 0:51:41Natalie's drug worker,
0:51:41 > 0:51:44who supported her reprieve and provided funding for
0:51:44 > 0:51:47three more months, is alarmed to hear of her decision.
0:51:47 > 0:51:49I have got my head in, still, in the right space.
0:51:49 > 0:51:52I'm not thinking about going out and using.
0:51:52 > 0:51:55You can't just bring up concerns cos I've said I'm going to leave.
0:51:55 > 0:51:58It doesn't matter, because no-one can just take Sunny from me.
0:51:58 > 0:52:01You can't just come and take him unless there's a real concern that
0:52:01 > 0:52:03I'm going to hurt him, that I'm putting him in an unsafe
0:52:03 > 0:52:04environment, that I'm using.
0:52:04 > 0:52:06I'm not.
0:52:06 > 0:52:08Ugh...
0:52:08 > 0:52:10Cherie, it doesn't matter what you say.
0:52:10 > 0:52:12I'm going. End of.
0:52:14 > 0:52:15Where's Sunny?
0:52:18 > 0:52:20How do you feel? Where are we going to live?
0:52:20 > 0:52:22We'll find a new home.
0:52:22 > 0:52:26Look at me. You're going to go to a new school, yeah?
0:52:26 > 0:52:29Are you excited? No. No?
0:52:29 > 0:52:30You're not excited?
0:52:30 > 0:52:33But you know that it doesn't matter where we are,
0:52:33 > 0:52:36it's always going to be me and you and JJ,
0:52:36 > 0:52:37cos we're a family, aren't we?
0:52:37 > 0:52:39We'll have lots of fun, yeah?
0:52:39 > 0:52:41Start a new life.
0:52:41 > 0:52:44Me, you and your brother.
0:52:44 > 0:52:46Love you.
0:52:46 > 0:52:47OK?
0:52:49 > 0:52:53She's very firm in saying she's going to continue in her recovery,
0:52:53 > 0:52:57and she doesn't want to use, and she wants the best for Sunny.
0:52:57 > 0:53:00Given the incident that happened, what, two weeks ago?
0:53:00 > 0:53:02It does cause concern, yeah.
0:53:04 > 0:53:06It's pretty worrying, with Natalie.
0:53:07 > 0:53:10Staff have no power to keep Natalie in rehab.
0:53:11 > 0:53:14And social services don't consider the risk to her children great
0:53:14 > 0:53:16enough to seek protection of them through the court.
0:53:18 > 0:53:21Natalie and Sunny can leave unchallenged.
0:53:27 > 0:53:30I can't say forever that I'm going to be clean - no addict can.
0:53:32 > 0:53:36At the moment, I'm happy being clean and I want to do well.
0:53:36 > 0:53:39Like, on my estate, there was a lot of addicts,
0:53:39 > 0:53:41there was a lot of drug dealers.
0:53:41 > 0:53:45I feel scared about my sons living around somewhere like this,
0:53:45 > 0:53:47because of...
0:53:47 > 0:53:53..what they can get themselves into, but also I hope that my sons will be
0:53:53 > 0:53:54stronger than I was and that...
0:53:56 > 0:53:59..through what I've been through and what they've seen me go through,
0:53:59 > 0:54:03hopefully, that they will take a different path,
0:54:03 > 0:54:04you know?
0:54:07 > 0:54:11Come on, then. Yes, yes! Freedom! Go on, then, out we go.
0:54:11 > 0:54:14Today, we're going to pack our suitcases.
0:54:14 > 0:54:16What might we need in a new house?
0:54:16 > 0:54:18Some toothpaste?
0:54:18 > 0:54:25Today is about introducing the concept of moving from here to their
0:54:25 > 0:54:27new family home.
0:54:27 > 0:54:30It may be difficult to understand the concept that home, to a child,
0:54:30 > 0:54:34may not necessarily be something that is a positive thing.
0:54:34 > 0:54:38Hopefully, new house, new environment, new start,
0:54:38 > 0:54:42will give a little bit of confidence that it's not going to be the same
0:54:42 > 0:54:45as previously, because it'll be a different setting.
0:54:46 > 0:54:49And that's the best we can hope for, really.
0:54:53 > 0:54:55Right, is this your case? Come on, then.
0:54:55 > 0:54:58Yeah, we're leaving it here for...ready to pack up.
0:54:58 > 0:55:01I've seen a massive development in her confidence.
0:55:01 > 0:55:05When she initially come to us, Natalie, you know, she was quite
0:55:05 > 0:55:07quiet, a little bit subdued, and
0:55:07 > 0:55:10quite uncertain in terms of her relationships.
0:55:10 > 0:55:12However, as she's moved through the programme,
0:55:12 > 0:55:16we've really seen her developing confidence and really blossom to the
0:55:16 > 0:55:20point where she's leaving us now, ready to go back into the community,
0:55:20 > 0:55:22she's got the children with her, you know,
0:55:22 > 0:55:26and the changes that she's made have just been marvellous.
0:55:26 > 0:55:28It's a very special and important day for you,
0:55:28 > 0:55:32so let's not fill it full of stresses and stuff.
0:55:32 > 0:55:36And what else do we need? Oh, it doesn't fit in my case!
0:55:36 > 0:55:38There's lots of anxieties when somebody's leaving us,
0:55:38 > 0:55:41and lots of mixed emotions, as you can imagine.
0:55:41 > 0:55:44You know, there's quite a bit of fear, I suppose, about the unknown
0:55:44 > 0:55:47and the future, mixed with the fact that they're leaving somewhere
0:55:47 > 0:55:50really stable, with people that they're familiar with,
0:55:50 > 0:55:51with lots of support.
0:55:51 > 0:55:54There's a massive amount at stake for people, you know,
0:55:54 > 0:55:56if they get it wrong.
0:55:56 > 0:55:59Natalie and the girls are starting a new life as a family
0:55:59 > 0:56:00on the Kent coast.
0:56:00 > 0:56:03Bounce! That's your pillow!
0:56:03 > 0:56:06It's been really busy, moving
0:56:06 > 0:56:08and packing, cleaning,
0:56:08 > 0:56:10settling the girls.
0:56:11 > 0:56:14GARGLING
0:56:14 > 0:56:15Again.
0:56:15 > 0:56:17I was actually sitting here last night,
0:56:17 > 0:56:21and I was thinking, it's been a long while that I haven't had to wake up
0:56:21 > 0:56:24and think that I had to score in the morning.
0:56:26 > 0:56:28And I don't feel vulnerable any more.
0:56:28 > 0:56:30I know I mustn't be complacent with that.
0:56:30 > 0:56:33I know I've got to avoid the risky situations,
0:56:33 > 0:56:34but now I can notice them more.
0:56:36 > 0:56:40Ooh, give me a kiss and a cuddle. Mm-mm-mm-mm-mwah!
0:56:40 > 0:56:42I've got confidence in myself,
0:56:42 > 0:56:44self-esteem and self-belief.
0:56:45 > 0:56:49You know, I feel strong, I don't feel weak and vulnerable and...
0:56:50 > 0:56:55you know, need to have crazy people in my life, basically.
0:56:55 > 0:56:57Mum, sit on my bed.
0:56:57 > 0:56:59Lay down, then.
0:57:01 > 0:57:03Given the right environment and given the right support,
0:57:03 > 0:57:06anybody could change.
0:57:06 > 0:57:08If families don't come here,
0:57:08 > 0:57:12keeping them in the system can cost hundreds of thousands of pounds.
0:57:12 > 0:57:16The cost of keeping children in local authority care,
0:57:16 > 0:57:20the cost in terms of being in prison, the cost to the NHS -
0:57:20 > 0:57:22it's endless.
0:57:24 > 0:57:27More than three quarters of the parents who come here complete the
0:57:27 > 0:57:30programme and leave for a new future with their children.
0:57:30 > 0:57:32You'd better take care of Junior. You too.
0:57:32 > 0:57:34It's Tracie's time to go home with her son.
0:57:36 > 0:57:38We're going home!
0:57:38 > 0:57:44I see people having to face their past, substance-free.
0:57:44 > 0:57:47And we see some amazing changes with
0:57:47 > 0:57:50our families whilst they're here with us.
0:57:50 > 0:57:53And they leave with the real hope that they can keep themselves
0:57:53 > 0:57:57drug-free, safe and well, and also their children the same.
0:58:00 > 0:58:02Bye, guys! Thank you, everyone!
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