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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. all the pain, everything that came up for me that was...

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 what i did. >> in his struggle to conquer addictio...

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...

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. ...

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 ...

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 as far as we know thats completely run and has counselors who are inmates, who are trained inmates. >> its one thing to sit across the desk from somebody...

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 as far as we know thats completely run and has counselors who are inmates, wh...

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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. all the pain, everything that came up for me that was my solution, to self-medicate....