3 Graduate From Drug Court Program

The problem has haunted Rebecca Harris all her life, she said. She didn’t always know that her lashing out at family and strangers was a defense mechanism, one linked to mental health issues. “I remember as a kid, being extremely lonely. I got really good at not keeping friends,” Rebecca said, speaking of her borderline personality disorder. “I just got to where I got angry when I didn’t want to talk to people. And it worked. When you act mean and crazy, people stay away from you.” But Rebecca looked nothing like that description on Thursday morning. Clad in a maroon cap and gown in a Kootenai County courtroom, the Post Falls woman was beaming, her arms welcoming her 4-year-old grandson Randsome as he scurried up her. She attributed her transformation to the Kootenai County Mental Health Drug Court, from which she was graduating after 19 taxing months/ Alecia Warren , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here. (Jerome A. Pollos Press photo: Press Rebecca Harris hugs her grandson Randsome Harris, 4, as she sits with her daughter Cathryn Harris outside a courtroom Thursday)

Question: Do you know someone whose life was transformed by the county Drug Court program?