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I was so young, i just felt like you know what, 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 just self-medicating, again, the same way i was on the street. all the pain, everything that came up for me, that was my solution, to self-medicate. and that s what i did. in his struggle to conquer addiction, rusty discovered a passion for counseling others. i ve been in 12-step programs for, oh, geez probably about 18 years now, 19 years. but the current program i m in, it s called a.r.c. ....
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 you know what, 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 just self-medicating, again, the same way i was on the street. all the pain, everything that came up for me, that was my solution, to self-medicate. and that s what i did. in his struggle to conquer addiction, rusty discovered a passion for counseling others. i ve been in 12-step programs ....
And i ve been incarcerated ever since. i was so young, i just felt like you know what, 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 just self-medicating, again, the same way i was on the street. all the pain, everything that came up for me, that was my solution, to self-medicate. and that s what i did. in his struggle to conquer addiction, rusty discovered a passion for counseling others. i ve been in 12-step programs for, oh, geez probably about 18 years now, 19 years. but the current program i m in, ....
Been incarcerated ever since. i was so young i just felt, you know what, my life is over. i got a life sentence. it s over and i came to prison and i started in 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 it s just self-medicating, the same i was on the street. all the pain and everything that came up for me, that was my solution, to self-medicate and that s what i did. he discovered a passion for counseling others. i ve been in 12-step programs for, oh, gees, probably about 18 years now, 19 years. but the current program i m in, ....
I was so young, i just felt like you know what, 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 just self-medicating, again, the same way i was on the street. all the pain, everything that came up for me, that was my solution, to self-medicate. and that s what i did. in his struggle to conquer addiction, rusty discovered a passion for counseling others. i ve been in 12-step programs for, oh, geez probably about 18 years now, 19 years. but the current program i m in, it s called a.r.c. it s addiction recovery counseling. it s a four-month program which is a state-of-the-art addiction treatment program. it s the first one ever in the ....