Sixty-year-old recovering addict Jose Lager says he’s done crack, dope, pills and alcohol on and off for 40 years. This will be the first time that he has ever been clean for six months. He is one of more than 100 inmates who participated in medication-ssisted treatment, or MAT.

“I thought I was going to be an addict my whole life. I thought I was going to die an addict. A lot of people died before me,” Lager said.

The program uses prescribed medication to block the effects of drug addiction.