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mlg	Pondering about Rehabs...	Lead	[-]
Posts: 605 (12/19/07 15:59:36) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I have been wondering about rehabs in that they do offer a program of thinking/reliving your life. However, they are isolating, as far as functioning in the "real world." You hear about addicts going in and out of them like revolving doors. I wonder if a Halfway House/Recovery Home would be a next, better step than having to all of a sudden go back out there and function without a form of structure and support. It is a good way to network with other recovering addicts. I guess i'm sayiang this because I see so much good that has come out of my daughter's experience in living there currently, working, and networking with lots of longtermers. The house has lots of structure, curfews, they all have jobs to keep the house running, and they are required to have their own job too. It seems to make better sense to me than trying to do it on your own all at once, then ending up running back to more rehabs, IMHO. mlg
luvepiphany	Re: Pondering about Rehabs...	#1	[-]
Posts: 7623 (12/19/07 16:11:08) Forum Star Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	mlg, it sounds to me like your daughter has the most wonderful halfway house to live in. But more importantly, she seems to want recovery. Unlike my addict x bf. He just wanted to comply and stay out of jail. He has his clean & sober housemates paid off to let him do whatever he wants like stay with his drug buddies, hang out with felons etc.. He cheats and has people sign his meeting slips(meetings are only mandatory by the house owner not the Intensive Outpatient Treatment). He also seems to have manipulated his PO situation... I loved that house. I found it and met with the owners and was so impressed with their supposed rules and spiritual recovery structure etc. The addict was able to manipulate it all to suit his using needs. The cops and DOC won't ever pick him up, they are too busy and truly don't care about his recovery. They just do their job and obviously they are overworked. Once again, I see that it's all up to the addict and whether or not they want recovery. luv
TenderheartsKS	Re: Pondering about Rehabs...	#2	[-]
Posts: 1883 (12/19/07 17:29:48) Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	*Quote:* You hear about addicts going in and out of them like revolving doors. I wonder if a Halfway House/Recovery Home would be a next, better step than having to all of a sudden go back out there and function without a form of structure and support. I agree to a certain extent. It is nice to have a situation where you can be in a halfway house/recovery home, and gradually be integrated into the real world. There wasn't a halfway house/recovery home here locally for me when I got out of rehab. I was out pounding the pavement for a job as soon as I was out of rehab. I was very fortunate in that one of my counselors had offered to give me a place to stay while I was getting on my feet. I got a job within three days, about a month later she and her husband found another place they wanted to rent, we all went to talk to her then current landlord, and he agreed to continue to rent the house to me. I still feel that a very large part of that 'revolving' door is just how much does an addict really want recovery? A lady just two years older than me was buried last year. She had been through rehab over a dozen times. She was not a stupid person. She very successfully ran a restaurant here in town for over 19 months (mom and dad financed that for her). The food was excellent and the place was always packed full.However you can't keep a place profitable when you're snorting up the profit. My point is, she never did want to quit. Her multiple trips only taught her how to become 'treatment' smart, how to play the game long enough to breeze through rehab, and then right back to her old ways once she was out. I believe that if a person truly wants to remain in recovery more than go back to using, they will find a way to make it work out there. With the exception of my counselor housing me for a month and me not having to pitch in on rent/bills, I was right back out there in the real world right after rehab, and as a single parent.
deeeCA	Re: Pondering about Rehabs...	#3	[-]
Posts: 798 (12/19/07 22:06:27) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Interesting topic mlg! I know that the place that I went to really tried to get the residents out in the real world by going to meetings, going shopping, etc. Unfortunately, there is not much one can do when they do step out of a residential or day program and into IOP just 2 or 3 nights a week. Most are referred to Sober Living Environments but they can sometimes be more dangerous than moving back into your own apt IMO. There were a few girls in my treatment center that were pretty close and all got placed in the same SLE together. You would think that would be a great idea, right? They have each other around for support and all the rest of it, right? WRONG. The 3 girls ended up all relapsing together because of the peer pressure of one of the girls that has relapsed a load of times. They all have had to leave the SLE because of their behavior. My theory on this is that it all comes down to whether or not the person really WANTS to be clean and sober. It was a bit of a shock when I got out of days and cut down to 2 nights a week and thrown back into an 8 hour a day job again but I adjusted and found what works for me without the extensive treatment I was getting by going everyday. I don't know if that's what you were looking for but I wanted to chime in!
Sfj	Re: Pondering about Rehabs...	#4	[-]
Posts: 6527 (12/19/07 22:21:38) - Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	12:12 p.m. PT, Tues., Dec. 18, 2007 SAN FRANCISCO - Troubling cases in which doctors were accused of botching operations while undergoing treatment for drugs or alcohol have led to criticism of rehab programs that allow thousands of U.S. physicians to keep their addictions hidden from their patients. Nearly all states have confidential rehab programs that let doctors continue practicing as long as they stick with the treatment regimen. Nationwide, as many as 8,000 doctors may be in such programs, by one estimate. These arrangements largely escaped public scrutiny until last summer, when California's medical board outraged physicians across the country by abolishing its 27-year-old program. A review concluded that the system failed to protect patients or help addicted doctors get better. www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22314486/
Kellhappy	Re: Pondering about Rehabs...	#5	[-]
Posts: 990 (12/20/07 00:01:10) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	my husband used to say, "if you're ever gonna get surgery in L.A., ask me who NOT to go to" I'm sure the insider info he had was minute, compared to the whole list of docs using!! We should be asking them for blood tests!!
luvepiphany	Re: Pondering about Rehabs...	#6	[-]
Posts: 7623 (12/20/07 00:02:33) Forum Star Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I wanna know about the teachers. luv
Kellhappy	Re: Pondering about Rehabs...	#7	[-]
Posts: 990 (12/20/07 00:07:08) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	oh dear, them too. shoot, there will be a list going here in no time... bus drivers taxi drivers all kinds of factory workers (manufacturing all kinds of important stuff we use all the time) etc, etc ad nauseum
luvepiphany	Re: Pondering about Rehabs...	#8	[-]
Posts: 7623 (12/20/07 00:17:10) Forum Star Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	pilots
Kellhappy	Re: Pondering about Rehabs...	#9	[-]
Posts: 990 (12/20/07 00:49:00) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	this could be a really long thread soon!!

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