Deborah Becker

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Up First from NPR · RFK Jr lauds Italy's addiction treatment. Can it work here? · 29 Mar 2026 podcast

Well, pasta, no surprise, with a pesto-type sauce the day I visited.

And there was prosciutto, cheese, roasted vegetables, chicken.

Wine used to be allowed at the meals.

But now it's only one glass a month to celebrate residents who have birthdays that month.

Yeah.

Well, I asked that.

They told me that if someone wants to relapse, they usually leave.

So then I asked, do you let them back?

And they said they would let them back.

But if it happens a lot, that person is not ready and they would leave.

The San Patrignano officials I spoke with say if someone's not motivated, they don't want their program to be added to what is likely a list of failures.

So they will work with people who are having trouble to a point.

There are enormous resources to help people get jobs and remain drug-free afterward.

A woman working in the laundry, Loretta Landon, she's 38 years old, dual citizen who grew up in Scotland and Texas.

And she told me she came to San Patrignano for treatment and for something more.

And really I had burned everything.

I'd burned everything.

I really was here alone in Italy with nothing and I needed help.

And so I thought, okay, this is a way to get help and to help myself.

So the follow-up is a big part of the program.

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