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Ok, I have been given a couple of choices at work
I failed a drug test for cocaine , I am not a regular uses but i do seem to binge every 6m or so. My work wants me to go to a 60 day inhouse rehab or go to NA meetings.. I have in the past been to a 6m program for the use of oxycontin and i def needed that at the time. My question is do you think meetings will be effective or should i look into a inhouse rehab? I do not need to detox i've been clean for almost 3wks. The binge is over. I just want to make sure i do not binge again.. I believe i do not talk about my problems and things in life and it all builds up then i supress these with a binge. I have started seeing a councelor in the last 2 wks. But my real question is i've never really been to NA / AA meetings and i was wanting to know if they are affective?
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mike
I failed a drug test for cocaine , I am not a regular uses but i do seem to binge every 6m or so. My work wants me to go to a 60 day inhouse rehab or go to NA meetings.. I have in the past been to a 6m program for the use of oxycontin and i def needed that at the time. My question is do you think meetings will be effective or should i look into a inhouse rehab? I do not need to detox i've been clean for almost 3wks. The binge is over. I just want to make sure i do not binge again.. I believe i do not talk about my problems and things in life and it all builds up then i supress these with a binge. I have started seeing a councelor in the last 2 wks. But my real question is i've never really been to NA / AA meetings and i was wanting to know if they are affective?
thank you
mike
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Mike not sure what kind of inhouse rehab you went through for the oxycontin, but I would really be surprised to learn that they did not reccommend some sort of continuing program like NA or another program to maintain your staying clean.
I am an alcoholic, I went through medical detox and maintain my sobriety via AA. Addiction and alcoholism are very close to the same issue, once an alcoholic/addict, always an alcoholic/addict. There is no cure for either, they can both be controlled through total abstinance.
I am strictly speaking from my own experience, but I have stayed very happily sober using AA for almost 2 years, this was after a 40 year drinking career, the last 5 of which were pure hell. NA is also IMHO an excellent program that is based off of AA. Many addicts use both NA & AA to stay clean.
The 60 day inhouse rehab may be a darn good way to get a good start in staying clean using NA/AA as a long term maintenance program for staying clean.
I am an alcoholic, I went through medical detox and maintain my sobriety via AA. Addiction and alcoholism are very close to the same issue, once an alcoholic/addict, always an alcoholic/addict. There is no cure for either, they can both be controlled through total abstinance.
I am strictly speaking from my own experience, but I have stayed very happily sober using AA for almost 2 years, this was after a 40 year drinking career, the last 5 of which were pure hell. NA is also IMHO an excellent program that is based off of AA. Many addicts use both NA & AA to stay clean.
The 60 day inhouse rehab may be a darn good way to get a good start in staying clean using NA/AA as a long term maintenance program for staying clean.
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NA... the greatest show on Earth.
(And all other planets too, I suspect.)
Mike, I started going to NA meetings and I was a total non-believer. I just wanted to go, so I could say I went, and that all of it was ********. Well... it changed my life. I cannot say enough about what the NA program and the 12 steps did for me.
Go, and be excited about a new way of life.
(And all other planets too, I suspect.)
Mike, I started going to NA meetings and I was a total non-believer. I just wanted to go, so I could say I went, and that all of it was ********. Well... it changed my life. I cannot say enough about what the NA program and the 12 steps did for me.
Go, and be excited about a new way of life.
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Hey Mike. Wecome to our site. I am not an AA/NA user and have never been to rehab. But I am a recovering alkie. I just wanted to say hello and thanks for joining us here.
PS. Is your name really Mike Hunt or are you spoofing us like they did the girl in the movie?
PS. Is your name really Mike Hunt or are you spoofing us like they did the girl in the movie?
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Yes its a SPoof my name is not really Mike hunt.. But i've used this name since the first day i entered the enternet 15 yrs ago.. (LOL).. I just need to figure out what i need to do.. I can't realy afford to go to some in house program.. I have bills and things to take care of and the fact that i am on Probation that would bassically be admitting i am still using drugs and there for could possible be a violation of probation .. I've never went to meetings myself So i was just wondering what they were like and if they work.. I have talked to people who still go to meetings and have been clean from 1yr - 20yrs.. Well i think i wil lgo to my first NA meeting tonight..
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mike I have to assume that NA meetings are similar to AA meetings and on that note I would suggest you go to several different meetings.
My experience in AA has been that every meeting has it's own personality, most meetings I find to be very good, but on occassion there are some that in my opinion are not for me!!!! We are all different and I need to accept that those meetings I find do not work for me do work for others, so I am not knocking them.
One other thing to be prepared for is NA, like AA is a cross section of society, there will be some real jerks at some, some so-so folks, and some really great folks. Most of the people in AA are darn good people, but there are some that are not. Like I said, there are no rules so any one seeking recovery or claiming to want recovery can be there.
Listen for similarities to you and not the differences. Show up a little early just to mingle a bit before the meeting and set aside a little time for chat after the meeting.
My experience in AA has been that every meeting has it's own personality, most meetings I find to be very good, but on occassion there are some that in my opinion are not for me!!!! We are all different and I need to accept that those meetings I find do not work for me do work for others, so I am not knocking them.
One other thing to be prepared for is NA, like AA is a cross section of society, there will be some real jerks at some, some so-so folks, and some really great folks. Most of the people in AA are darn good people, but there are some that are not. Like I said, there are no rules so any one seeking recovery or claiming to want recovery can be there.
Listen for similarities to you and not the differences. Show up a little early just to mingle a bit before the meeting and set aside a little time for chat after the meeting.
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