On 2006-02-21 12:12:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Hi me again expalin how your giving them freedom by keeping them out of treatment? And dysfunction your really kidding yourself thinking your a counselor what a joke. You cant teach what you dont know. "
The problem is that you're stuck in the thinking that "counselor" means "phony, high and mighty active addict/drunk that screams in my face instead of working with me to address the underlying issues that feed my drug addiction."
There is nothing therapeutic about Daytop's program. You get verbally abused and berated, humiliated and given mixed messages. Whether or not you succeed is totally up to how much abuse you can take and still function.
Daytop's success rate is roughly the same as no intervention at all and far lower than prison. You would have had a better chance at success by being locked up. Go figure.
I'm trying not to get into it too much with you though, man. You're painfully ignorant and I don't have time to hip you to the facts.