reporter: mayor rolen paulino hands out chocolates and chats with the trainee craftsmen.e wants to turn the jobs-for-addicts scheme into a cooperative that builds and sells furniture. mayor paulino: i said, do it properly and change yourselves, otherwise the coffin you are making might be your own. reporter: elsewhere, recovering drug users are encouraged to exercise and eat well. joan: we see zumba as a priority. the participants can detox their bodies, and they can make new friends. and then they are more likely to cooperate in our program and to get healthier. reporter: that's the theory. but it will be difficult to improve the addicts' long-term behavior if they have no livelihood and no motivation to change their habits. julie: lifestyle -- if you want to be poor, you always want to be poor. you just want to ask something from those who have already. if you don't have any notions, visions in life, to elevate your conditions in life, that's the problem. reporter: those who are here apparently do want to change, and help is available to them. pickled milkfish is a big