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Drug Rehabilitation Centers – Do They Help, or Reinforce Habits?


In March of 2002, a girl by the name of Sarah Lanski was a runaway criminal. At the tender age of eighteen, Ms. Lanski committed the major crimes of grand theft auto and credit card fraud. She escaped the law and traveled to Florida from Michigan with a friend who was involved in the previous crimes. With a warrant out for her arrest, she was caught in Florida and was sent to the state prison for women. Ms. Lanski and her accomplice were held there for several weeks before being shipped up to Michigan’s Oakland County Jail. After spending five more weeks in OCJ, she was released, and ran away from home staying the night wherever she could.
The Lanski family tried repeatedly to contact their out of control daughter, but it took a childhood friend to bring her back to the comfort of her own home. From there she was taken immediately to St. John’s Hospital in Macomb. Ms. Lanski admitted herself i...