CoffeeDrinker
Bluelighter
Is it possible to combine a college or school and an addictions rehab center so that addicts can get clean but also work towards a certificate or degree program of some kind?
My biggest problem with AA is that they seem to talk about the same thing the whole time, every time. I'm not saying I don't respect the idea of steps in the recovery process, and I am so grateful for the people whose phone numbers I got during my first few trips.
I think it would be cool if addicts can work through their issues in addition to grooming themselves for future employment and giving them something to live for.
I came up with this idea just after going to an AA meeting and wishing that there was something better and more substantive regarding your whole life and not just the fact that you used mind altering chemicals. I'm also of college age and my addiction problems have caused my education career to be sidetracked and harmed. I hate the fact that I had to sacrifice my semester just because I was in the hospital for a little over a week and in an intensive program for a little over a month. I feel like I could have been doing more during that time.
They say that you have to change people places and things that are related to your use, but so often when people get out of rehab they have absolutely nothing but a few months of clean time under their belts and the pressure to fall back into their old ways can be almost insurmountable. Why wouldn't this idea make it that much easier for addicts to stick with recovery?
What do the insightful people of bluelight think about this "Recovery University" idea?
My biggest problem with AA is that they seem to talk about the same thing the whole time, every time. I'm not saying I don't respect the idea of steps in the recovery process, and I am so grateful for the people whose phone numbers I got during my first few trips.
I think it would be cool if addicts can work through their issues in addition to grooming themselves for future employment and giving them something to live for.
I came up with this idea just after going to an AA meeting and wishing that there was something better and more substantive regarding your whole life and not just the fact that you used mind altering chemicals. I'm also of college age and my addiction problems have caused my education career to be sidetracked and harmed. I hate the fact that I had to sacrifice my semester just because I was in the hospital for a little over a week and in an intensive program for a little over a month. I feel like I could have been doing more during that time.
They say that you have to change people places and things that are related to your use, but so often when people get out of rehab they have absolutely nothing but a few months of clean time under their belts and the pressure to fall back into their old ways can be almost insurmountable. Why wouldn't this idea make it that much easier for addicts to stick with recovery?
What do the insightful people of bluelight think about this "Recovery University" idea?