Before he kicked the habit, Robert Badea shot heroin for almost 50 years.

Drugs have always been a problem for me.

When you shoot drugs, you use drugs and you have drugs.

You don't have no problems.

A drug you use it with drugs is a happy person.

It's when you don't have it.

That the problem begins, you know?

And Robert's problem with drugs led to legal trouble.

He was in and out of jail for most of his life, starting when he was just 11 years old.

Today, Robert lives back in his hometown of Fajardo Puerto Rico.

He's a wirey 69 years old.

I don't look it and I don't act it, but I am.

A little under 10 years ago, Robert was picked up by the police and convicted for possession

of stolen articles.

The court in Puerto Rico gave him an option, go to prison for three years, or spend 18 months

in a place called Ogar Crea.

Ogar means home in Spanish, and Crea could mean create or to believe, but it's also an

acronym.

It stands for Comunidad para la Re Educación de Adictos, or in English, Community for the

Reeducation of Addicts.

It's a drug treatment program, and their representatives are all over the island of Puerto Rico, even

in the courthouse.

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