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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.

This new 2-part program consists of the following segments:

Part A The New Face of Courage
Part B Making Relationships Work Now

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

Correcting errors in thinking is basic. The other half is the BEHAVIOR that results from these thoughts.

You can earn 4 hours of Continuing Education Units based on Dr. Samenow's series Commitment to Change Tactics: Habits that Block Change at www.ceumatrix.com.

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.

Volume III The Power of Consequences is a 3-part series, and is the last of 3 volumes in the entire Commitment to Change Series.

You can earn 4 hours of Continuing Education Units based on Dr. Samenow's series Commitment to Change the Power of Consequences at www.ceumatrix.com.

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