SUD Training Videos for Corrections Officers | Madison County, NY
This resource is a set of six short videos that Madison County, New York uses to train corrections officers on substance use and addiction. The videos explain how addiction affects the brain, why opioid addiction is hard to overcome, and how personal experience shapes the way people understand it. Together they give officers a shared foundation for understanding addiction as a health condition. Each one is short enough to fit into a training session or briefing.
HOW TO USE IT
Use these videos in officer onboarding, in-service training, or roll-call briefings. Because each one is short, an agency can assign a single video ahead of a discussion or play a few in sequence. Pair them with your own policies and local resources so officers can connect what they learn to their everyday duties.
WHO MIGHT USE IT
Jail and prison administrators, training coordinators, and corrections officers looking for short, accessible material on substance use. The videos also work for sheriffs' offices, reentry staff, and other agencies that want a ready-made set of training clips rather than building their own from scratch.
THE STIGMA OF ADDICTION
A TEDx talk in which former BMX pro Tony Hoffman shares how early drug use led to addiction, homelessness, and prison, and how he rebuilt his life afterward, along with the judgment people carry toward those who have overcome addiction.
nuggets: an animated short on addiction
A wordless animated short film that follows a bird whose first taste of a golden nugget gives a lift, then gradually pulls it down as it chases that feeling again.
MECHANISM OF DRUG ADDICTION IN THE BRAIN
An animation that explains how the brain's reward system works and how drugs raise dopamine levels in that system, gradually desensitizing it so that everyday activities stop feeling rewarding and larger doses are needed.
IS ADDICTION A CHOICE?
An informal talk from Joey The Recovery Guy that weighs whether addiction is a choice, comparing the moral model and the disease model, and lands on the view that both personal and biological factors are involved.
WHAT CAUSES OPIOID ADDICTION, AND WHY IS IT SO TOUGH TO COMBAT?
A TED-Ed animated lesson that explains why opioids are so addictive and what can be done to reverse rising rates of addiction and overdose.
breaking the silence: addiction & recovery
A documentary in which Graham County, AZ, residents speak candidly about substance use, featuring interviews with county jail inmates, people in recovery, and family members.