Adventures in Recovery 6-26-13 Methadone Program – 12 Step Program
Adventures in Recovery 6-26-13 Methadone program – 12 Step program – 12 step programs. Do they have an official stance on methadone programs?
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That is a good way to look at it. People with high blood presser have the disease hypertension. Hypertension is treated with a drug. Much of the time people may have to take a pill once a day for the rest of their lives. If they can bring their blood pressure down with change in diet then they could stop the medication. I suffer from the disease of addiction. A 12 step program was tried? and worked for a little while . After several dangerous relapses medication was tried and was successful.
As far as I know AA, NA, etc, all say that you are not in recovery if you are on any substance. They say, like you said, you traded one addiction for another, you are actively using. We both know this is not true. Addiction is a disease and methadone is what works to keep our disease under control. I have to drive three hours to my clinic because the people where I live won’t allow a clinic. I’ve encountered one NA? group out of state that is methadone friendly, but that’s it, one. Thanks JoBo!