We can do one of two things,
because I want you to understand
I spent a fair amount of time talking to them,
and they love you enough
to allow you to have whatever consequences come
with whatever behaviors you choose.
You're under arrest now;
they bailed you out so you could come here.
Um, and you can go back, and they can revoke that bail,
and you can go right back to jail,
and they have agreed to not get you a lawyer,
to not bail you out,
to let you get your sentence for a third DUI
and sit in jail if it's two years, three years, whatever,
that they're not going to intercede
and keep you from suffering consequences.
Or, you can do what I want you to do.
I'd rather do what you want.
Well, you don't even know what it is yet, Lisa.
(audience laughs)
What is it?
She doesn't even know what it is yet.
(audience laughs and cheers)
What I want you to do,
because I'm the incurable optimist,
and I think, I don't ever give up on people,
and I'm not giving up on you.
I think you can get, I think you can beat this.
I think you can get back to being happy.
I think you can get back to being a grandma
where those kids are climbing up in your lap
and putting their arms around your neck.
And I think they are prepared to forgive you forevermore
when you stop doing what you're doing,
and this man right here, TJ Howard, raise your hand.
Say hello to TJ Howard right here.
(audience claps)
Hello to you too.
TJ Howard is the Corporate Director of Operations
for the Origins Behavioral HealthCare.
Now, let me tell you, they're not a rehab center.
They're a dual diagnosis treatment center,
and what that means is they treat the entire individual.
Alcohol abuse, drug abuse, seldom happens in a vacuum.
It usually happens in parallel
with psychological issues at the same time.
They treat those problems and the addiction problems
at the same time.
TJ, we've talked about this.
You believe you can help this woman, true?
Yeah, absolutely.
I think the struggles with alcohol and the opiates
from years and years ago have definitely changed your brain,
and that's what we do.
We work to help develop new pathways,
new ways to, you know, go at life.
But I know you've gone before,
and you've gotten out and gone right back to drinking,
and when I get involved-
Have you ever watched this show before?
All the time.
I really like you a lot.
(audience laughs)
Yeah, well good.
I think you're great. (audience claps)
Did you know that when I get involved, I get involved.
I know you do.
I'm going to ask you to agree to a behavioral contract.
I, Lisa, agree that in accepting rehabilitative services
offered by Origins Behavioral Recovery Center,
will fully comply with their curriculum
and remain in the program until such time
as they deem it appropriate for me to be released.
Upon release, I agree I will immediately
wear a monitoring ankle bracelet
24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
And what it does: it monitors alcohol content
in your body by a transdermal sensor.
And if you drink,
it transmits that alcohol level to that bracelet,
records that data, and that data is going to be transmitted
to your family and to Origins,
and they're going to take that data and send it straight to
your probation or your parole officer.
I've got a parole officer?
You will.
(audience laughs)
'Cause you've just had a third DUI.
Wow.
(audience laughs)
Thank you.
So, is that your choice?
Yes sir.
(audience claps)
This, um, this requires,
this requires that you sign this,
which means you're agreeing that you're gonna turn her in
if she violates this.
Will you sign your copy right there?
You need to sign it right there.
And I'll let you sign it right there.
It's time to be accountable.
Deal?
Yes.
(audience claps)