OETA Story on Women in Recover: Eddie Warrior aired on October 14, 2011

(UPDATE: This story won an Oklahoma Society for Professional Journalists Third Place General News Award on April 21, 2012 and won Oklahoma Associated Press 3rd Enterprise "Women In Recovery" Lis Exon / Edwin Wilson) This story aired on the ONR on OETA-The Oklahoma Network. The reporter is Lis Exon; photojournalist is Edwin Wilson. For more information, go to the ONR web site www.news.oeta.tv and ONR blog http://blog.oeta.tv/onr For more about OETA-The Oklahoma Network, visit www.oeta.tv OKLAHOMA CONTINUES TO SEND MORE WOMEN TO PRISON THAN ANY OTHER STATE. 63 PERCENT OF THEM SUFFER FROM SUBSTANCE ABUSE. DESPITE TREATMENT IN PRISON, MANY OF THE WOMEN GET OUT, START USING AGAIN AND EVENTUALLY END UP BACK BEHIND BARS. NOW A RELATIVELY NEW THERAPY IS LOOKING AT ADDICTION FROM A GENDER BASED PERSPECTIVE. IT EXPLORES WOMEN'S CHILDHOOD TRAUMAS AS THE SPRINGBOARD TO THEIR CYCLE OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE.