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As the Founders Saw It SERIES
Hosted by Earnie Larsen,
nationally recognized author & lecturer

Counselors can easily use any of the six video topics to enhance concepts covered in an existing treatment curriculum or can use the video topics alone to conduct dynamic discussion sessions on core recovery topics.

A Twilight Zone-like thriller that asks "why do people with addictive disorders continue to return to the very substance or behavior that is destroying their lives?"

The second film in the Trilogy of Recovery Series offers counselors, facilitators and therapists the powerful medium of entertainment education, a leading-edge tool to help clients and patients address the chemical dependency disorders that negatively impact their lives..

Use Family Recovery Basics to begin a family program or complement an existing one. It is ideal for use in a variety of settings, including health care, addiction treatment, mental health treatment, correctional facilities, community groups, and educational settings.

A Better Way is a video presentation hosted by the powerful Danny Trejo.

Part 1: Responsibility: Guides inmates to understand they are responsible for where they are.

This 38-minute program focuses on long-term recovery goals related to work, money, school and recreation. It shows how building a satisfying, well-rounded life is the best relapse prevention. Also illustrated are the relapse traps clients run into when dealing with work, money, school and recreation--and how to overcome them. The main teaching points include:

* The importance of getting and keeping work

 * Strategies for coping with relapse traps on job

 * Dealing with financial stress and money management

 * Furthering education (examples from acquiring literacy to going to college)

* Service: Giving back to the community

* Having fun clean and sober

* Reclaiming long-term dreams

This 39-minute program focuses specifically on early recovery, teaching the viewers to prepare for the challenging high-risk situations they will inevitably encounter in their first weeks and months back in the community. Specifically, it covers these essential teaching points:

* Make a housing plan before leaving prison or rehab

* Arrange to live in a safe and sober housing situation

* Avoid living with any active drug or alcohol abusers

* Get rid of any drug supplies or paraphernalia you still have

* Prepare to handle the inevitable triggers and cravings

* Plan ahead to handle running into "get-high buddies" and dealers

* Put together a support system--and use it