Wow, there is a board for everything.

[Anonymous]

91 - 93

I was going through a running away from home faze.  I hated my stepfather and didnt want to go home.  Waa Laa brought to an intake at LIFE.  I had been through intakes at other programs so when my mom came out crying I knew that came next.

I feel lucky because by 91 a lot of the degrading bullshit had stopped.  No more belt looping, it was now the kinder gentler shouldering.  Unfortunately people who had been there a while had been through a lot.  Some old aquantencies were there, Jeremey Weeks (who some people her might remeber, they called him worm he ended up dating and running with Ann Weisler)

Anyway... I was lucky, I didnt go through toture, I never got taken down, but I saw pleanty of people who did.  Oddly enough when I came to life I had never done drugs (outside of inhalents).  Afterwards I went through a period of drug addiction (oddly enough ran into my old life councilor Jimmy McCaron and did acid with him)
Some of the things I learned at life (which were just reinforcements for things I learned in AA / NA) helped me break our of that cycle.

Is anyone on here who was there from 91 - 93?

[xvipah]

I 7th stepped in 89/90 may have gone in once or twice around '91, but I graduated HS and went off not soon afterwards, never went back before it closed.

[Anonymous]

Was the first one in the door when we came from LIFE.  First person to make 5th "faze" in Lake Worth.  Still have nightmares about the place.  They call Life Straight lite but I can still hear the screams.