“We keep doing the same old thing and getting the same results," Pribil said. "We need to try something more radical to try to change this. We need to start trying different things because what we’re doing is not working.”

ROAD TO RECOVERY

If there's one thing Gishie wants other alcoholics to know, it is this: recovery is possible, but you can't do it alone. You need the right mindset, the right recovery and 12-step programs, a good support system and faith in a higher power.

Gishie's first attempt in Exodus lasted 30 days. He resigned himself to the idea of prison and relapsed again. Two experiences in 2014 changed his life. First, he got an in-jail work assignment cleaning up the intake area while awaiting his sentence. There, he saw his friends from the streets come in day in and day out.

"At first, it was funny but within three weeks, I was to the point where I couldn't laugh with them nor laugh at them because that was me," Gishie said. "If I would have never gotten that felony charge, I would never have been able to see it."