Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS)
Cross creek manor
Anonymous:
Well if that is the case then theres probbly no point in arguing. She will only look at it from her perspecive. And yes, the PROGRAM did write the guidelines I posted. They handed it to us at PC1. And every kid that has been there knows that if there is anything in the home contract that anyone disagrees with, it has to be changed. I was scared of my therapist and used the guidelines from the packet I posted to make mine. It was so overwhelming. It created more problems for me when I went home then helped me.
amanda
Anonymous:
I was listening to NPR tonight and they were discussing the rise in obesity in Shanghai. The reporter asked the guy in Shanghai if "fat camps", diet pills, and quick fixes were on the rise as well. He retorted that when a rise in obesity happens in a society, there will always be people who try to make money off it. I think this applies to the program as well. When the rise in "drug" use happened, someone seized a window of opportunity and made bank off of parents ignorance and fear. And as it continues to rise, more money will be made. Anyone agree??
Antigen:
Well, I mostly agree. Except that there hasn't really been a significant rise in drug use. Just occasional significant shifts from one drug to another (coke gets expensive and risky, coke dealers switch to meth and the users take what's available) And there was a significant rise in the perception of drug use being a major problem.
But I don't think the troubled parent industry is growing to meet a real deman. One big clue is how the rhetoric has changed. In the early `70's (summer of Manson, etc) the media was all a twitter w/ fearmongering about the inevitable wave of heroin addiction. We knew that GIs in Vietnam were using a lot of it. And we "knew" that heroin is instantly and morbidly addictive. So we "knew" that, as the vets came marching home from Vietnam, they'd bring their addictions w/ them. So the White House tasked NIDA (then headed by Bobby DuPont) to come up w/ a solution to this impending crisis.
But it never happened. As it turns out, most ppl who were using heroin in Vietnam under unbearably stressful circumstances simply quit when they got back home.
So here we were with all these rehabs underway, and mostly built on the Synanon method, and no damned heroin addicts! Legend has it that that's where the gateway theory came from. At the same time, there were lots and lots of pot smokers representing a boom market to any salesman who could sell the gateway theory.
If there's a worse idea going than locking people up for drug use, it's probably locking them up in close proximity to some tyranical altruist who wants to 'help' them with a problem that probably doesn't exist
-- Ginger Warbis
having had about all the help I can stand!
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Anonymous:
I've seen several kids get involved with drugs. Most of them have parents who abuse subsances - either RX, alcohol or illegal substances. They also come from disfunctional homes. So if a kid is using drugs the parents need to take a good, hard look in the mirror. They need to fix themselves and the family unit. Most people don't have that kind of self insight though. How many have gone through family counseling before shipping thier children off to a WWASO facility?
Antigen:
If you've only seen several kids who use drugs then either you don't see kids very often or you just assume that the "good" ones are abstinate.
Even when asked by a teacher to fill out a survey in the classroom, consistently around half of all highschool seniors have admitted to illegal drug use. That has been so since we started doing these surveys in the `70's. So, while it's factually true that kids ta' day who use drugs usually have parents who do the same, it's about as significant as noting that kids who use drugs have parents who prefer french fries over baked potato.
Drugs, legal or not, are part of our culture. Out of control, harmful drug use is also a part of our culture. Most kids are left to their own devices wrt figuring out where to draw the line. All the adults are just spouting nonsense at them right from the DFAF. It's worse than worthless because, what little useful information we have to give them comes to them tarnished by bullshit like the gateway theory.
We need to stop doing that and just tell the kids the truth.
When we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the flow of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy for the US to export tobacco. Years from now, our nation will look back on this application of free trade policy and find it scandalous.
1989 testimony before the US Trade Representative,September 1989
--Surgeon General, Everett Koop
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