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[Anonymous]

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/discussion/2009 ... rless.html


Hello, My 15 year old son was admitted to Aarc February the 3rd 2009.
On Friday February the 13th the CBC aired Powerless. WOW.
It was a jugular impact to me.
I felt now the like a Judas who had just sold my son into a twisted cult. He would remain scarred for ever.
Still weeks later I am a tenuous duck in a new pond shunting back and forth between BC and Calgary muttering incoherant and sometimes vindictive feelings under my breath.
But why did I not fly in with a flashy red robe and save him and rupture him out of those rare ritual sessions.
The reality is: where can we go ?
A.)Back to his school where the lines of cocaine are consumed in the boys washroom before morning classes,b.) to the kind drug and alcohol counsellor who says there is nothing we can do? c.) to the party on the reservation where the 16 year old friend passed out and lost his leg on the train line d.)to the prison cell where the young man with addictions gives up on life.This is what surrounds me.This is my world.
Here's what I know of Aarc and it's not a lot.
My son is Ok there.He expresses love there.The recovery home parents care about him. He is willing to stand in the hot spot because he sees there is something to be gained there. I went to a family session a few weeks back. It was ridiculous to me but I told the new parent sitting beside me later, "It may look and feel really stupid but I actually believe it works."
We all need hope.
I believe it lives there at Aarc in a very strange package.
You just have to unwrap it

[anonAARCgrad]

I am truely sorry for your dilemma. I doubt that at 15 your son has had enough sustained drug use to be an addict, but if he does, the people at AARC are no more qualified to provide threament than I was. Chances are he will learn more about drug use and after a year or more in suspended animation he will be bursting to use drugs just to feel good after the shit he will go through there. You wil be down $50K or more and there is a better than even chance your child will relapse, likely with another AARC graduate. That is much more the norm than staying sober.

[Anonymous]

http://www.aarc.ab.ca/media/DrMcMahon.pdf

I found it interesting that both of the parents were doctors and fell for AARC's lies. It goes to show how adept AARC staff have gotten at pretending that their qualifications are valid. I wonder what Dr.McMahon would have thought if Vause introduced himself as "Fred, the gym teacher" (His real first name and a more accurate title) rather than Dr. Dean Vause, PhD, expert in adolescent addiction. Or if Natalie and Colin introduced themselves as AARC drones who don't really need to get a valid education from accredited universities because they got their "PhD in pain" at AARC.

Is it possible that a kid with four siblings and parents who are consumed by their careers would lack guidance and attention? I don't know the kid, but I'd be willing to bet that he doesn't have a disease. "Where had we, his parents, gone so terribly wrong? We became ashamed and embarrassed. This was not supposed to happen to our family." I'd be willing to bet that this kid felt an enormous amount of pressure to be a strait-A student, presumably like his other angelic, future med student siblings. Too bad you had a bad apple in the bunch to spoil your cookie cutter facade of a perfect family.

"It was amazing to watch these loser teenagers become healthy and regain a zest for life."  ::puke::

That's fantastic that you've turned your son's frown upside-down.  :beat: