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Our addiction treatment system for marginalized groups is exactly wrong This Times article is about a $billion wasted in not curing — but harming — AZ Native Americans via addiction treatment. https://lnkd.in/eeHaRjp3 They Wanted to Get Sober. They Got a Nightmare Instead. Arizona spent $1 billion on addiction treatment, much of it fraudulent, officials said. Scores of Native Americans who sought help are still struggling with untreated addiction — and some died in rehab. ———- But that analysis is wrong. It isn’t fraud that killed these treatment recipients. It is the normal operation of American addiction treatment for marginalized populations, in which Native Americans were removed from their homelands and deposited in urban rehab/halfway houses. Everything about this system was wrong: Standard Addiction Treatment Program 1. Clients are removed from their usual supportive communities. 2. They are treated in isolation by addiction professionals. 3. Treatment consists of group talk sessions and disease theory indoctrination. 4. Clients are left purposeless and isolated in a strange urban environment where their only reference group are fellow “addicts.” 5. They are taught to permanently identify as lifelong addicts with no hope for real change. ——— We at the Life Process Program have created a B2B program for marginalized groups. These are five key elements in LPP B2B: LPP B2B Marginalized Group Program 1. Clients are assisted in their normal life and community environments. 2. Helpers are peer counselors not selected specifically for being addicted themselves, but for their familiarity with this environment. 3. The emphasis in LPP B2B is on improving functionality with the support of peers and the community. 4. The Life Process Program is engaged at all levels of real-world skills training — including education and job training opportunities, fundamental communication and problem solving skills, and assistance with intimacy, family, and community relationships. 5. LPP is above everything optimistic and forward looking — it communicates that change is achievable and that the person is capable of change and not destined for a lifetime of addiction. LPP B2B empowers individual clients and their communities, rather than attacking their agency. It’s almost as though we created a counseling program based on reversing everything about American treatment!

Learn about the potential of peer expertise in justice settings with our latest brief on building successful partnerships with peer-run organizations, which explores ways you can create impactful partnerships that promote recovery and change. https://lnkd.in/gqUqvUU9

AS BILL SEES IT, January 9th, Group and World-Wide Community, Pg. 9: The moment Twelfth Step work forms a group, a discovery is made–that most individuals cannot recover unless there is a group. Realization dawns on each member that he is but a small part of a great whole; that no personal sacrifice is too great for preservation of the Fellowship. He learns that the clamor of desires and ambitions within him must be silenced whenever these could damage the group. It becomes plain that the group must survive or the individual will not. “The Lone member at sea, the A.A. at war in a far land–all these members know that they belong to A.A.’s world-wide community, that theirs is only a physical separation, that their fellows may be as near as the next port of call. Ever so importantly, they are certain that [their higher power's] grace is just as much with them on the high seas or the lonely outpost as it is with them at home.” 1. 12 & 12, p. 130 || 2. Letter, 1966 If you need help with addiction to alcohol or drugs, please call us at 336-553-6596 #fellowshiphallnc #positivechange #treatmentworks #recovery #hopeandhealing #makingadifference #impactinglives #EndtheStigma #recoverymatters #treatment #strongertogether #wedorecover #recoveryjourney #12stepprogram #soberlife #drugrecovery #alcoholrecovery #hopeandhealing #supportandempowerment #addictiontreatment #AlcoholicsAnonymous #NarcoticsAnonymous #onedayatatime #RecoveryNC #SoberLiving #RecoveryResources #RecoveryIsPossible #RecoveryInspiration #SoberLifeNC #LifelongRecovery

Including families in the recovery process can make all the diference.

AS BILL SEES IT, January 9th, Group and World-Wide Community, Pg. 9: The moment Twelfth Step work forms a group, a discovery is made–that most individuals cannot recover unless there is a group. Realization dawns on each member that he is but a small part of a great whole; that no personal sacrifice is too great for preservation of the Fellowship. He learns that the clamor of desires and ambitions within him must be silenced whenever these could damage the group. It becomes plain that the group must survive or the individual will not. “The Lone member at sea, the A.A. at war in a far land–all these members know that they belong to A.A.’s world-wide community, that theirs is only a physical separation, that their fellows may be as near as the next port of call. Ever so importantly, they are certain that [their higher power's] grace is just as much with them on the high seas or the lonely outpost as it is with them at home.” 1. 12 & 12, p. 130 || 2. Letter, 1966 If you need help with addiction to alcohol or drugs, please call us at 336-553-6596 #fellowshiphallnc #positivechange #treatmentworks #recovery #hopeandhealing #makingadifference #impactinglives #EndtheStigma #recoverymatters #treatment #strongertogether #wedorecover #recoveryjourney #12stepprogram #soberlife #drugrecovery #alcoholrecovery #hopeandhealing #supportandempowerment #addictiontreatment #AlcoholicsAnonymous #NarcoticsAnonymous #onedayatatime #RecoveryNC #SoberLiving #RecoveryResources #RecoveryIsPossible #RecoveryInspiration #SoberLifeNC #LifelongRecovery

Great article about 75 year anniversary of Hazelden Betty Ford & how they are safe lives and transforming future for so many addicts and families.

📣Welcome to #TeamFireWatch Sophros Recovery - Tampa! 💥Sophros Recovery’s first location opened in Jacksonville, Florida, in 2021, and its new Tampa location also serves central Floridians. 🌟Sophros Recovery is a treatment center for addiction and mental health challenges that started with founder Nick Padlo's own experience with recovery. Nick, a West Point graduate and Army Veteran with deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan, battled his reintegration processes that led to addiction after leaving military service. Sophros Recovery strives to address underlying conditions related to drug and alcohol addiction, but also the reasons people begin to use in the first place. For veterans, Padlo recognizes, “We learn a lot of stuff in the military, but we don’t learn how to navigate emotions.” 💥Sophros Recovery utilizes a recovery toolkit that teaches how to manage and work through life. This series of tools and skills helps one learn how to navigate life and relationships better. For some veterans, separation from service is a separation from the military's hardline core values, leaving veterans to wander without a sense of purpose or mission. Having lived in a state of hypervigilance, veterans find themselves in a passive world; This can be a challenge. For Padlo, who “lost more friends to suicide than to IEDs,” understanding a veteran’s mindset through personal experience has helped him identify the differences between mental and physical pain, “You can’t just run through the pain when it comes to mental health like you could a sprained ankle.” 🌟“I get it,” exclaims Padlo, “It’s hard not knowing where to go, to carry too much pride, and to believe you should be able to handle whatever is going on. I always ask fellow veterans considering help, “Would you ever run away from an enemy in combat? Then, why are you running away from this one?” I remind them that the only way out is through.” https://loom.ly/OCUOmr0 #sophrosrecovery #recoverytoolkit #veteranhealthandwellness #teamfirewatch #catchthefire #firewatchmagazine #firewatchadvertiser