A program in Arkansas is looking to help those stuck in a vicious cycle of addiction, like how one Searcy father once was.
Some people are trapped in a life they just can’t get out of, just ask Mike Belmarez. For 25 years, he went from petty crime to gangs to drug dealing before becoming addicted to the same drugs he sold others.
“I remember a time being homeless and I used my own spit to shoot up with,” he said.
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In hopes of breaking that cycle, he finally reached out to Arkansas’s Restore Hope, a community-driven program to help people like Mike change their lives, through rehabilitation, housing, education and a way out of the justice system. Jamie Matlock was assigned his case…