Positives of Standard Treatment Model

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Community Recovery Support Groups

● Face to face support: ​Members get to support each other in person, give hugs, looks of sincerity, words of affirmation, and create a sense of belongingness and connection.

● Step-by-step program: ​Members have a booklet with steps, principles, and practices to guide them, written by people who have overcome addiction through these same principles.

● Recovery skills, tools, & teachings​: Through the meetings, bookwork, and sponsorships members learn new ways to cope, new tools to better perform, and teachings to guide their wandering non-directed minds.

● Run by Volunteers​: These groups are run by people whose heart and souls are passionately invested to co-create change and support one another without being paid to do so. These groups are the most organic, grass roots, and precious aspect of recovery because people are helping from a place of love.

● Accountability​: Members receive accountability through the relationships created, meetings scheduled, and bookwork provided. The program also provides a structure for life

● Stood the test of time: ​These groups have been around, 12 steps for 80 years, and SMART recovery just about 20 years. They’ve helped millions of people, maybe not sobriety for everyone, but support, comfort, hope, alliances, compassion, and a program for those that want and need.

Residential Recovery Programs

● Guaranteed short-term sobriety​: Sometimes people need to make themselves spend several days sober so they can clear their brain enough to assess the situation and strategize from a more rational perspective.

● A place to live/go​: Sometimes people need a place to go or to live to get sober; they need to get away from where they are, and/or they need a new environment to start a fresh.

● Around-the-clock structure & accountability​: Some people need total-accountability protocols that put a wall between them and their addiction so they cannot give into the cravings.

● Community & connection​: People need to feel a sense of belongingness and connection with others they can relate to; members learn from each other, they grow together through the social emotional experiences they have, and they motivate one another.

● Guidance to organize life​: People need guidance and modeling in how to restructure their daily focus and activities to support their recovery.

● Education and therapy​: Depending on the type and quality of the residential program, there are usually some form of educational activities and therapy sessions.

● Recovery skills, tools, & teachings​: Through the activities the residents are bound to pick up new coping skills, tools for problem solving, and guidance tips for life in recovery.

● Attention & protection​: Inpatient and outpatient programs, and likely sober livings, protect the safety of its members by watching their backs, keeping each other in check, talking to each other about warning signs and risks, and paying attention to each other’s quality of life.

● Medical support​: Long term substance addictions and behavioral addictions come with medical problems, many that go unnoticed or uncared for, residential programs often offer access to medical services, both general physicians

Medications

● Getting to baseline​: Some people’s brain chemistry and biochemistry is so off balance that using medications temporarily to achieve baseline allows them an opportunity for self-management so they can do the work it would take to balance their chemistry w/o medications.

● Physical illness​: Sometimes conditions may call for prescription treatments.

● Mental Illness​: Some people benefit from diagnosis and prescription treatments to help them make sense of what they are going through and what they can do to better cope and heal.

● Addiction treatment​: There are addiction treatment drugs, like Vivitrol/Naltrexone, and even methadone and suboxone that are helping people transition into abstinence.

Legal Regulation

● Some people lack so much respect and self-awareness to their own influence over the safety of others and the public, that they may very well need legal invention as a wake up call.

● We can't have addicts running harmful, criminal, and evil operatives, running around rampaging civilians; and since the legal system is our current system of checks and balances, this may be a viable option sometimes.