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Whether it's about sports or business or learning the arts, we know it takes practice. We need to understand that relationships are no different.

Hosted by Earnie Larsen

This 38-minute program focuses on dealing with relationships when the client is in early recovery (and beyond). It teaches the viewer to anticipate and prepare for the challenging high-risk situations that come up with families, partners and children. Topics include:

* Coping with an unsupportive or dysfunctional family

* Avoiding the trap of rescuing others

* Avoiding new romantic involvements for the first year

* Men's ans women's issues in early recovery

* Dealing with the triggers involved in sex

* Issues related to safe and sober sex

* Dealing with guilt over past parenting mistakes

* Coping with the stress of parenting in recovery

This 38-minute introductory program teaches the viewer to turn former street skills into "street smarts" for staying clean and sober. Seven recovering addicts from urban neighborhoods who are now doing well describe the real situations they face every day-- and how they deal with them so that they don't pick up. They stress 8 essential skills:

* Accepting disappointments without resorting to drug use

* Coping with chronic stress

* Resisting the lure of "easy money"

* Avoiding going back to the old spot

* Resisting the pull of the street life

* Planning to handle offers

* Maintaining complete abstinence

* Using a support system.

A 3 part series by Earnie Larsen covering Building Self-Confidence, Overcoming Fear, and Dealing with Discouragement.

Directed to everyone in treatment, this film identifies the common relapse precipitants and dramatically illustrates how specific " high risk" factors can be managed.

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Smoking: Truth or Dare is a powerful program that graphically demonstrates the risks of tobacco to teens and others who use tobacco.