ParkdalePetunia
Active Member
Plenty of rehabs encourage visits to AA during inpatient treatment. Part of rehab is learning how to establish a healthy routine & coping strategies for when you leave rehab. Most addicts aren't going to find their local AA meeting spot and show up for regular meetings all on their own after leaving rehab.
But these would be rehab supervised AA meetings, never going on your own.
I have years of experience dealing with different types of rehabs because a close family member of mine is an addict with comorbid psychiatric diagnoses (as is the case with most addicts). Rob is at a terrible rehab IMO based on my experiences. Reputable rehabs would never allow outings during the first 30 days, supervised or not.
I'm sure it's a lovely relaxing place. Anyone would feel 'amazing' at a luxury resort spa.
But addiction is a chronic illness that needs to be treated like any other chronic illness, in an actual medical setting. Spa-like rehabs minimize the seriousness of the disease. I think they reward 'bad' behaviour. They are scam artists. Relapse is great because every business loves repeat customers!
Sorry for the rant but I've seen rehabs like this perpetuate the cycle of addiction. They make my blood boil. I'm sure there are some hard working therapists there. But they are naive and brainwashed by that type of rehab industry.
Thank you for this! I have no experience with rehabs, I have no idea how they actually work, only how I expect them to work.
Being let out to go to AA? Yeah. I'd say that's pretty damn weird for an inpatient. Anything is possible I suppose, but it's a pretty big wtf to me.
Thank you!!! So I'm not being a weirdo alarmist, this is strange.
eta: It appears there is a twitter deluge of people asking the cbc reporters who verified the rehab claim to clarify some points of the story and some follow up (including a few journalists like Andrew Mitrovica). Maybe we aren't the only ones who are "overthinking" the situation...
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