Regional Addiction Prevention (RAP), Inc., is a non-profit,
community-based human services organization with its
principle program management offices located at its Calvin
W. Rolark Treatment Center, 1949 4th Street, N.E.,
Washington, D.C. 20002, Telephone: 202-462-7500. RAP
operates several satellite substance abuse residential
treatment centers located in Laurel, Maryland and
Washington, DC.

RAP has been in existence for over 30 years, providing
services to substances abusers living with HIV/AIDS, and
others who want to learn alternative drug-free lifestyles.
Target populations include adults who are homeless, single
parents, substance abusers living with HIV/AIDS.

Based on the concept of social learning, we believe that an
individual cannot be viewed in isolation from his/her family
or community. Therefore, a positive lifestyle change for the
substance abuser occurs in a social context. Simply
stated, negative patterns, attitudes, and roles are not
acquired in isolation; therefore, they cannot be altered in
isolation. Further, newly acquired coping skills are
threatened by isolation and its potential for relapse.
Recovery, then, depends upon what has been learned and
how and where learning occurs. Based on this theory, the
total RAP therapeutic environment serves as teacher.
Since learning is an active process - doing and participation
- a socially responsible role is acquired by acting that role.
With peer and staff support, what is learned can be
identified by the residents involved in the learning process.
Additionally, in our perception of the individual substance
abuser as a product of a faulty socialization process - a
process which creates the ingredients for low self-esteem
promoted by negative behavioral patterns - a purposeful
perspective on self, society, and life, must be affirmed by a
network of others. For the increase of self-esteem, RAP
also encourages the development of self-understanding
(know thyself), self-discipline, self-determination, and
self-reliance.