Movie about him overcoming addiction in editing stage

Motivational speaker Ron James will be in Ironton again on Wednesday.

He is the author of the book “Choices, Lessons Learned from a Repeat Offender,” which chronicles his spending 25 years in prison after a series of bad choices, including selling and doing drugs and becoming an alcoholic, and how he overcame that. After being released from prison, he co-founded the Your Choice Foundation to inspire others.

He will speak at Ohio University Southern in the Bowman Auditorium from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

James first spoke in Ironton at a town hall meeting on drugs in May after meeting Mayor Katrina Keith at a church function.

A movie about James, called Choices, was filmed in Huntington this spring. It is now in the editing stage in preparation for a nationwide release.

James’ presentation is both spiritually based as well as secularly based. He is expected to speak for at least 40 minutes formally, and there will be a question and answer session afterwards.

Information from S.T.E.P.S. of Recovery will be presented as well.