Real-life inmates talk about their recovery struggles and setbacks, and offer suggestions for staying clean and sober in prison or out.

Sharing their experiences, inmates make it clear that relapse is a real and menacing threat, particularly for the newly sober and newly released. Among their ideas for preventing relapse:

• Avoid high-risk situations and people
  
• Get a good sponsor
  
• Go to Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, or other support groups regularly
  
• Before acting, ask yourself, is it illegal? immoral? irresponsible?

Taped in Minnesota correctional facilities, this program is part of a series (see the link below) that portrays actual inmates telling the real story about recovering from a life of addiction and crime. The result is a powerful, direct, and liberating message about finding a life of recovery and freedom.

Viewing time: 27 minutes. Closed-captioned. 2002.

See also: A New Direction for Ex-Offenders: Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Videos. This is a comprehensive cognitive-behavioral therapy curriculum for addicted offenders.

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