AARColytes have posted on AARCSurvivor for years now, claiming that the stories presented here are false, and failing to prove that, attacking the posters. So, who better to demonstrate the deception and delusion inherent in AARC than AARColytes themselves. As DavidPablo Escobar-Grant's step-father, in concert with the Rotary Club, brought us AARC, and Mr. Escobar-Grant was one of the first clients, then a peer counsellor, and finally a propagandist, I'll use his own account of his experiences in AARC.
At the time he entered AARC, Mr. Escobar-Grant was certainly not an adolescent. This practise of accepting full-grown adults and subjecting them to the same "treatment" as 13-year-olds was a hold-over from AARC's parent, Kids.
Mr. Escobar-Grant checked himself into All About Receiving Cash, and as noted above, was diagnosed as a "Level 4" addict, "verging" on Level 5, which is apparently death. The diagnosis was given by the Wizard after a quiz was administered by some peer counsellors. So let's look at this AARC intake. The potential client arrives of his own volition, misled as to what he is about to undergo by his parents. He is then administered a quiz by peer counsellors, who are complete amateurs and not health care professsionals of any kind. The diagnosis is then pronounced by the Wizard, who is also not a mental health professional of any kind.
In this case, the potential client is determined to be in such an advanced stage of "addiction" that he is verging on death. Mr. Escobar-Grant claims very openly that the two drugs he was addicted to were alcohol and marijuana. Mr. Escobar-Grant was not suffering any severe symptoms of chronic alcohol abuse, such as liver or pancreatic damage, nor did he suffer physical withdrawal effects such as delerium tremens. I am at a loss to explain how such an individual could qualify as the most severely addicted level of alcohol abuser. So it must have been the pot. Try as I might, I have been unable to determine what aspect of marijuana abuse would leave Mr. Escobar-Grant teetering on the brink of death. So what can one take away from this?
Mr. Escobar-Grant was duped into submitting to an intake by amateurs and then given a diagnosis that simply cannot be true. Which means that this full-blown AARColyte was admitted into AARC with a phony diagnosis. If the step-son of AARC's Godfather was admitted under false pretenses, does that lend credence to the stories of Rachel, Velvet, DMc, SLF and others who claim not to have been addicts?
I'm not saying that Mr. Escobar-Grant was or wasn't addicted to alcohol or marijuana. But his account describes a fradulent diagnosis.
Following this account, Mr. Escobar-Grant says in one paragraph, "No one was telling me I needed help, or I needed to change." In the very same paragraph he then says, "They pointed out, based on what I had told them, that I was in deep trouble, and it wouldn't get better on its own. I was an addict, and it was a chronic, life threatening disease. If I didn't get help I would be headed for disaster-they knew;" So they told him that it was a chronic life-threatening disease, he was headed for disaster if he didn't get help, was in deep trouble, etc., but they didn't tell him he needed help or needed to change?
The term "Orwellian" is used to the point where it's lost most of it's meaning today, but my vocabulary is devoid of another term to describe this kind of bullshit double-talk.
I don't mean to pick on Mr. Escobar-Grant, but nobody twisted his arm to write his door-stop. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone who wants a clear picture of the All About Receiving Cash Cult.
