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Jack was released from prison in January 2009 after serving 18 months of a 3 year sentence. This was Jack’s first prison sentence, he went in to prison on a methadone programme but was still using heroin occasionally.Jack engaged with the prison CARAT teams to help him with his addiction and left prison clean from all substances including methadone.

Jack was released in to Bed and Breakfast accommodation where he found it difficult to maintain his abstinence from heroin, eventually he lapsed back in to use and shortly after was referred to The Wallich Gorwelion project, which is a new project for ex-offenders who wish to abstain from using substances.

Since Jack has lived at the core house he has maintained his abstinence from heroin and other drugs, he is currently reducing on his methadone programme and has not re-offended since. Jack has shown great progress and has been keen to get involved with activities at project and also engagement with outside agencies; he attends NA meetings and says that the support he has received at Gorwelion has played a major part in his continued recovery from substance misuse.