don't talk about devon... i knew him while i was fresh in, he took me home as my oldcomer, helped me out immensely in my start at a new life, and when he relapsed which caused by, not transitioning into AA or another 12-step program or any other method of staying clean and sober and practising what he was taught, and i found out he had committed suicide in jail.... what a horrible day, such a good kid sober, such a tragic fate because of this disease, that the American Medical Association along with countless other similar institutions recognize as a true disease (with identifiable characteristics which validate this classification such as prognosis, eitology and pathology)... so basically, trash AARC all you want... LEAVE DEVON OUT OF THIS... let him rest in peace... at least have that much respect and decency for a tragedy of this level to not turn it into a travesty in this forum...
P.S. just like the post above me, R.I.P. Devon... miss you man, hopefully even in the tragedy of your passing, people will see that although you did not have to die having learned what you did in AARC, that you have a powerful message to carry, and that is the seriousness and reality of the progressive terminal nature of compulsive drug and alcohol use aka ALCOHOLISM (which, again, is a validated, classified disease.)
