By Mary Ellen Klas
TALLAHASSEE -- Susan Nyamora pushes her baby in a stroller into the day care center at the Susan B. Anthony drug treatment center in Pembroke Pines and wonders how different her life would be if Florida's budget crisis had hit the center two years ago instead of now.
''It saved my life,'' said Nyamora, 40. Instead of five years in jail, she was sentenced to treatment for cocaine addiction. Instead of giving birth to her baby in jail, she had the baby at the center, spent 18 months in treatment as an alternative to jail, took parenting classes, kept her five children together, and completed her associate's degree in social work.
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