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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 it's all about paying for your school. >> after a shoulder injury and with her skol skal lscholarship on the line, she started to self-medicate. >> i started taking ibuprofen and that tur...

I was arrested at age 21 for a second degree murder. and i've been incarcerated ever since. i was so young, i just felt like my life is over. i've got a life sentence. it's 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 it's 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. that's what...

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 by a bomb technician does the dangerous work humans can't spraying water on the control box in the ...

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. we're 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 medicate, because right now in the current healthcare system, it is often cheaper to get heroin than...

I was so young, i just felt like my life is over. i've got a life sentence. it's 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 it's 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. that's what i did. >> in his struggle to conquer addiction, rusty discovered a passion for counseling o...