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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.

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 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 four video, nine segment training program is a must for all psychiatric and alcohol/drug treatment staff.

Earn Continuing Education Units on courses authored by Dr. Nuckols at WWW.CEUMATRIX.COM.

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.