This study was aimed at the life situation and transformation of a successfully-rehabilitated entrepreneur before and after his being incarcerated. It adopted purposive sampling recruiting a 20-year heroin user who had successfully-rehabilitated as the research participant. While data collection was mainly through depth-interviews, reports about the participant in newspapers, magazines and internet news were also collected as auxiliary sources. The data were analyzed in the light of Leiblich’s “holistic-content” narrative method. The findings are as follows. 1. The drug use was attributed to the wrong value formed in the early years, and he had never had the right view of cause-effect until he met the prison advisor. 2. He encountered the Buddhist belief and internalized it as the critical force of his life transformation. 3. Social rehabilitation involved not only personal persistence but also the support of family feeling and social group. 4. The death incident of a family member and personal near-death experience exerted impact onto his perspective of life, making him devoted to the Bodhisattva way for repentance. One of the limitations of this study had to do with the ethical concern that part of the interview content had to keep secret due to personal privacy. It was suggested that future studies could interview more participants for a deeper understanding of the connection between the Buddhist belief and drug-detoxing behavior.
