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What do people do when they dont have access? they self medicate. the drug rate rises. peoples addiction to violence that we speak about is exacerbated. but here is the interesting point. we would rather talk about somebody rapping about, singing about, portraying in a film violence than the actual violence itself. while we demonize and stigmatize those people who replicate patterns in pop culture we do nothing about the ready access to guns. its the ready access to guns that led to this devasta...

Dont have access? they self medicate. the drug rate rises. peoples addiction to violence that we speak about is exacerbated. but here is the interesting point. we would rather talk about somebody rapping about, singing about, portraying in a film violence than the actual violence itself. while we demonize and stigmatize those people who replicate patterns in pop culture we do nothing about the ready access to guns. its the ready access to guns that led to this devastation. until we get the guns ...

Dont have access? they self medicate. the drug rate rises. peoples addiction to violence that we speak about is exacerbated. but here is the interesting point. we would rather talk about somebody rapping about, singing about, portraying in a film violence than the actual violence itself. while we demonize and stigmatize those people who replicate patterns in pop culture we do nothing about the ready access to guns. its the ready access to guns that led to this devastation. until we get the guns ...

Was in the street. all the pain, everything that came up for me that was my solution, to self-medicate. thats what i did. >> in his struggle to conquer addiction, rusty discovered a passion for counseling others. >> ive been. 12 step programs for, oh, geez, probably about 1 years now, 19 years, but the current program im in, its called arc. its addiction recovery counseling. >> its a four-month program which is a state-of-the-art addiction treatment program. its the first one ever in the world a...

Where do you easily go for help? thats the question. >> national lines on mental illness put out a report last year that said in part states have cut more than $1.6 billion in their state budgets for mental held services since fiscal year of 09. these cuts translated to loss of vital services such as housing, access to medication and crisis services. >> look, heres the thing. what do people do when they dont have access? they self medicate. the drug rate rises. peoples addiction to violence that...

Tournaments and just different training sessions, weig weight lifting, running, everything. it just kind of consumes your life. >> big 10 school and duke came calling offering dana full athletic scholarships but she started to rebell and chose to stay close to home. >> by the time i got close to college, i just wanted to hang out with my friends and the fun was gone and it was so serious because at that point its all about paying for your school. >> after a shoulder injury and with her skol skal...

I was arrested at age 21 for a second degree murder. and ive been incarcerated ever since. i was so young, i just felt like my life is over. ive got a life sentence. its over. i came to prison and started into the same behavior. i was like for the first nine years, i was using whatever i could, drugs, prison alcohol. just trying to do anything that i could to escape the reality of my situation and what i had done. you know and that, and its just self-medicating the same way i was in the street. ...

defuse or detonate explosives the suspect set inside. through the window of his third floor apartment, they can see a web of trip wires, and a living room full of about 30 homemade ieds strung together with firecracker shells. there are also jars of black powder and liquid accelerant, cans of gasoline, too. at 10:33 a.m. progress. >> we have been successful in defeating the first threat, which includes defeating the trip wire and the first incendiary device. >> reporter: a robot driven...

And the numbers that you most often cite are more than two-thirds of women inside have experienced sexual or physical abuse. in doing this work inside this place and reading narratives and interviewing approximately 30 women around the country, that number is far too low. were looking at something that looks like 80 to 90% of women inside prison appear to have experienced childhood sexual and or physical abuse, and then receive little to no therapy for that experience, which leads them to self m...

I was so young, i just felt like my life is over. ive got a life sentence. its over. i came to prison and started into the same behavior. i was like for the first nine years, i was using whatever i could, drugs, prison alcohol. just trying to do anything that i could to escape the reality of my situation and what i had done. you know and that, and its just self-medicating the same way i was in the street. all the pain, everything that came up for me that was my solution, to self-medicate. thats ...