When you hit &quot;the bottom&quot; you know, and jail is the last place you want to end up in that situation --to say nothing about having to then maintain a criminal record afterwards. Addicts are <i>addicted</i>, and like anyone who has ever suffered through such a plight the unconscious puts up a fight like none other in order to keep the body wired into the drug. You think you still want to use, but that is merely a projection of the condition, until you <i>know</i> you cannot use, but meanwhile cannot stop. At this point treatment can hopefully become available to the person outside of the criminal justice system.