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Anonymous:
So... I don't understand... and please don't come at me like the enemy here, I'm just here out of interest's sake, I guess. I've been graduated for a few years now but I'm still fairly involved with AARC. I am also happy with the direction my life has taken as the result of a significant turning point in my life which happens to coincide with my treatment at AARC. I don't agree with everything that happens there, nor do I disagree with everything that happens there. These things are besides the point.They are just to let you know my stance on the entire situation. I just want to know, from those of you involved with AARC who feel your rights and your soundness of mind have been violated, where do you stand with your addictions? Are you active members of AA? Do you feel that that part of your life was just a phase or could be conquered through some other means (like therapy, or will power)? Do you feel that your alleged addictions were just another thing suggested to you while you were in a very vulnerable state? If I sound sarcastic I don't mean to, I'm asking these things in all sincerity. I feel for myself very concretely that I was struggling with alcohol and drug abuse, and that my life was suffering serious repercussions as a result. I knew that before I set foot in any sort of treatment facility. But it occurs to me that if I felt there was no reason for me to be there initially, I might be  a little ticked that I gave up such a significant amount of time and power to an institution.

Anonymous:
How old wereyou going in?
How much were you drinking and how often? What drugs were you using and how often?

Antigen:

--- Quote --- But it occurs to me that if I felt there was no reason for me to be there initially, I might be a little ticked that I gave up such a significant amount of time and power to an institution.
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While you were there, did you have a pretty good idea that some (maybe a lot) of the kids were not drug addicted to begin with? I'm curious because I know that AARC and some AA groups are pretty rigid on the point that any inapropriate use, as determined by whom or by what means I'm not sure, is indisputable proof of morbid addiction.

Personally, I don't but that. I think kids do all kinds of dangerous and stupid things while they're exploring their options and deciding who they'll be. If I had a choice between my daughter smoking a joint and her taking up cigarettes, for example, I would not hesitate a moment to prefer the joint. Either way, it wouldn't be the end of the world. To most Program people, though, that makes me a horrible mother.

To the extent that a society limits its government to policing functions which curb the individuals who engage in aggressive and criminal actions, and conducts its economic affairs on the basis of free and willing exchange, to that extent domestic peace prevails. When a society departs from this norm, its governing class begins, in effect, to make war upon the rest of the nation. A situation is created in which everyone is victimized by everyone else under the fiction of each living at the expense of all.

--Edmund A. Opitz
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Anonymous:
No one wants to answer my questions?

Anonymous:

--- Quote ---On 2003-06-03 05:03:00, Anonymous wrote:

"How old were you going in?

How much were you drinking and how often? What drugs were you using and how often?"

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