Tears slide down his hardened face as the 41-year-old drug addict and convicted felon begins to cry about his estranged children.

"It hurts so bad," Jason Park finally says, breaking a temporary quiet outside 3rd District Judge Randall Skanchy's drug court in Salt Lake City. Now in their early 20s, "my kids are so disgusted with me, they don't want nothing to do with me."

Homeless and living at a downtown shelter, Park clings to every word that might bring a chance, possibly his last, at redemption. During a long drug-use career, "I'd done a little bit of marijuana, a little bit of coke, but meth is the grabber," he says. "That's the one that really pulls you in"

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