"Often the group creates an increasingly intense sequence of events, such as seminars, lectures and encounters, which makes leaving extremely difficult, both physically and psychologically."
Let us look again at DavidPablo Escobar-Grant's experience upon entering All About Receiving Cash. We pick our story as DavidPablo is diagnosed as a level 4 addict. It is interesting to note that while he was apparently verging on death from addiction, DavidPablo claims to have tipped the beams at a sturdy two hundred pounds at this time.
Having determined to stop drinking and using drugs, DavidPablo has shown up at AARC to get some advice from the Wizard. Instead he is given an intake quiz, and prounounced an addict with a chronic life-threatening disease. He is then told by the Wizard that he is going home with him. DavidPablo is then led upstairs, where his parents are already waitin. He is told that he will be cut off from them unless he submits to the AARC program. At this point DavidPablo asks to call his girlfriend, with whom he is living in a common-law relationship, but he is refused this request.
After being refused the opportunity to explain his sudden disappearnce to his spouse, DavidPablo is then given a delousing shower and body search. After showering, DavidPablo is read all of the rules of AARC while dressing. These rules include no phone calls and no visitors. Why would a man who has reached the age of majority submit willingly to this treatment? Only DavidPablo can say. It leaves one to wonder what effect this procedure has on children who are told by AARC that they can be held against their will until they turn 16, or on those who have had the misfortune to be sent to AARC through the courts.
After his delousing, DavidPablo is put immediately into a "Guys Rap", and from there it's off to the Wizard's house where he shares a bed with three other inmates.
And to think DavidPablo started his day thinking he would get some advice on joining AA.
Here are some of his own comments about his experience:
"It was all too much to absorb, and it all washed over me without sticking. No one seemed surprised at my lack of comprehension-they figured it was a huge change, plus I was likely beginning to detox, which added another factor. No one who came in was very sharp, and every move was carefully directed."
"I felt completely out of my element. I wandered through the rest of teh day in a fog."
Upon waking after his first night in the "host home", DavidPablo, aware that he has not even called his spouse, decides that he wants to leave AARC. Upon rising, he encounters the Wizard "sitting in an open bathrobe". (?) DavidPablo tells the Wiz that he would like to leave, at which point the Wizard bribes another inmate with coffee(which DavidPablo has been told is prohibited in AARC), and then has the fellow explain to DavidPablo how great life is at AARC. "He looked at me with these pleading sincere eyes, and I knew I could trust him.'
"Often the group creates an increasingly intense sequence of events, such as seminars, lectures and encounters, which makes leaving extremely difficult, both physically and psychologically."
Let us look again at DavidPablo Escobar-Grant's experience upon entering All About Receiving Cash. We pick our story as DavidPablo is diagnosed as a level 4 addict. It is interesting to note that while he was apparently verging on death from addiction, DavidPablo claims to have tipped the beams at a sturdy two hundred pounds at this time.
Having determined to stop drinking and using drugs, DavidPablo has shown up at AARC to get some advice from the Wizard. Instead he is given an intake quiz, and prounounced an addict with a chronic life-threatening disease. He is then told by the Wizard that he is going home with him. DavidPablo is then led upstairs, where his parents are already waitin. He is told that he will be cut off from them unless he submits to the AARC program. At this point DavidPablo asks to call his girlfriend, with whom he is living in a common-law relationship, but he is refused this request.
After being refused the opportunity to explain his sudden disappearnce to his spouse, DavidPablo is then given a delousing shower and body search. After showering, DavidPablo is read all of the rules of AARC while dressing. These rules include no phone calls and no visitors. Why would a man who has reached the age of majority submit willingly to this treatment? Only DavidPablo can say. It leaves one to wonder what effect this procedure has on children who are told by AARC that they can be held against their will until they turn 16, or on those who have had the misfortune to be sent to AARC through the courts.
After his delousing, DavidPablo is put immediately into a "Guys Rap", and from there it's off to the Wizard's house where he shares a bed with three other inmates.
And to think DavidPablo started his day thinking he would get some advice on joining AA.
Here are some of his own comments about his experience:
"It was all too much to absorb, and it all washed over me without sticking. No one seemed surprised at my lack of comprehension-they figured it was a huge change, plus I was likely beginning to detox, which added another factor. No one who came in was very sharp, and every move was carefully directed."
"I felt completely out of my element. I wandered through the rest of teh day in a fog."
Upon waking after his first night in the "host home", DavidPablo, aware that he has not even called his spouse, decides that he wants to leave AARC. Upon rising, he encounters the Wizard "sitting in an open bathrobe". (?) DavidPablo tells the Wiz that he would like to leave, at which point the Wizard bribes another inmate with coffee(which DavidPablo has been told is prohibited in AARC), and then has the fellow explain to DavidPablo how great life is at AARC. "He looked at me with these pleading sincere eyes, and I knew I could trust him.'
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