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libodem

(19,288 posts)
11. Go with the out patient
Sat May 4, 2013, 12:18 PM
May 2013

And NA meetings. I worked in a Detox center, with a 30 day program. The patients did their first 3 steps in group and then were encouraged to continue in AA or NA by themselves. Of course there was aftercare. I also worked in an adolescent treatment center. The peer pressure can be good or bad with whomever you hook up. That's for all programs and groups. The tendency to slip is a present danger.

My oldest son just lost his brother in law to a heroin overdose about two months ago. I met Jorge at Thanksgiving last year. Very handsome and polite. The family was very quiet about his being admitted for Detox.But I knew he was going in. He'd been clean maybe 4 months when he re-used, passed out in his vomit, and suffocated. His mother is still crying everyday. The juxtaposition is that my other son's brother in law, was in up state New York, going to med school and died in an avalanche skiing almost the same week. Both are equally tragic in my eyes. One son was not better or more important than the other in their mother's hearts, just because one graduated form Harvard.

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