LYNN – Jeffrey Wallace choked up as he admitted to the court Wednesday that he had been smoking “tons of cocaine.”But Wallace did not receive a jail sentence. The judge, attorneys, and the courtroom audience stood up and clapped, and Wallace received a diploma from Lynn Drug Court.”I thought I was always smarter than them,” Wallace said, describing how he rejected people in the court system, his family and his friends who all told him he needed to get help for his addictions. Then he came to drug court and got sober. “There were no more angles for me to play in drug court.”The Lynn Drug Court is one of several drug court sessions throughout the Commonwealth that combines intensive substance-abuse treatment with court supervision. Since its inception in 1999, the Lynn session has served more than 550 people, according to information provided at the graduation.On Wednesday, Wallace joined nine other men and one woman as members of the Lynn Drug Court Class of 2013. All of the participants have been sober for at least a year. All of the participants were also very familiar with the court system.Lynn Drug Court Justice James LaMothe has described the program as “intensely supervised probation” for defendants who have been found, or plead, guilty to drug charges and admit that their addiction is so strong that the courts must direct treatment.LaMothe described Wednesday at graduation how that treatment is a team effort.Drug Court takes over Courtroom 2 every Wednesday afternoon as participants – who must appear before a judge at least once a week – report their progress.The session requires the help of many in the courthouse. Each participant is paired with a probation officer and an attorney. Court officers transport participants to and from the session and, sometimes, treatment centers or jail. An assistant district attorney oversees cases involving drug-court participants.Outside the courthouse, health providers help the participants achieve and maintain sobriety. Social-service providers supervise participants in sober homes and help participants with employment.And family members, friends and other participants in the program offer emotional support.As participants demonstrate success in maintaining sobriety and regaining a normal life, they gain increasing independence.Yet, relapses happen. And LaMothe said that not every person who completes the probation will graduate. LaMothe and other officials must approve a sobriety plan for each graduate and must be convinced that the graduate has not only achieved but can maintain sobriety.Graduate Kristen Martinez’s experience highlights the difficulty in graduating from the program.Martinez recalled she started Drug Court last September with four other women.”I went to two wakes this year and another woman I started with is in Framingham,” Martinez said. The fourth is presumably on the run, she said.”Without drug court, I would be dead,” Martinez said.Anthony Mansi, who graduated from the court in 2006 and was invited to speak to this year’s graduates, echoed Martinez about drug court saving his life.Mansi told the courtroom that eight hours after a judge gave him his “last chance,” and did not throw Mansi out of drug court, Mansi was overdosing and crashing into a house with his car.He was 18 and had been to Middleton jail 23 times, Mansi recalled. A judge offered him six years in jail or serving a two-year sentence and rejoining drug court.”That was the greatest thing that ever happened to me,” he said, of choosing the latter. “I owe everything that I have today to Lynn Drug Court,” Mansi told graduates and participants in the program attending the ceremony. “Just give yourself one honest shot. Even if you don’t want it, your life will get better.”And as participants Michael Calcagno, Antonio Horta, Matthew Kennard, Martinez, Josh McGeoghgan, John Murphy, Mark O’Keefe, Zlatko Sedic, Louis Theodore, Wallace, and Gerald Libby received diplomas, their friends and family cheered and w