Tag Archives: Into Action Treatment Blog

Drug and alcohol rehab in Florida

Water lilies

Dan Callahan did a lecture in our rehab center.Heres his blog excerpt.

Twenty Four
by Daniel · 0 comments

“Recognize that life is what you get when you’re born … living is what you do with it.” – Jim Allen

It was April 13, 1988 I was hammered at a bar in Cortland NY. I was in college my sixth full-time year in college with only an Associates degree to show for it. I had called my mother in desperation, I was surrounded by friends that thought I was having fun, but internally I was drowning and lost. I had called her several times over the past month, always drunk and in the middle of the night. But this time was different, she said, “Danny, don’t call me back tomorrow and tell me you are fine, I am coming to get you”.

The next day April 14, 1988, my parents showed up at the pizza shop I worked at part-time. I got in the car and they drove me to see my two children in Albany and then South back to Long Island to the Veterans Hospital where I went for detox and rehab.

It has been twenty-four years today. I must admit there have been some extremely difficult life situations since that time but nothing like the desperation and pain I felt. I felt alone and lost amongst many as an active drunk! Life has new meaning, I continue to learn about myself and grow. I live by the mantra my sponsor taught me, “Life is meant to be enjoyed and not to be endured”! I can tell you this today, LIFE IS GOOD!

Go, Go, Go…

hirst pic

Found new AA blog

http://addictionrecoveryandyou.wordpress.com/

Heres a little piece from it:

Did the Akron program work? You bet it did. Alcoholics Anonymous in Akron achieved a documented, 75% success rate among the “seemingly-hopeless,” “medically-incurable” alcoholics who really tried. That success was primarily among Akron A.A. members. And the fact that they had been cured by the power of God was widely publicized across America. Soon, Dr. Bob’s sponsee, Clarence S., brought the Akron program to Cleveland and achieved a documented, 93% success rate in Cleveland.

Sunrise

The Beginning

Although it sounds a bit heavy it is really not the beginning because the idea have started over five years ago. It is just the beginning of this blog for the intoaction treatment facilty that will get open later this year.

We have been thinking about the vision and came up with a very simple, though grand one: Everybody gets recovered. Yes it is naive, yes it is overly optimistic, but is it?

As long as you are willing and are honest with yourself the results are guaranteed. Will all our clients will be willing? Absolutely not and never and that is really what we are there for to give them a notch, to provide that drastic push that validation, that attention that have triggered massive events and changed millions of people’s lives thru out the history. Honesty, well, nobody expect the alcoholic and the addict to be one since most of us could not differentiate the truth from the false anyways.

And, yes, one more thing to mention: there’s no difference between the alcoholic and the addict, the one craving “oxys” or using meth, drinking or sniffing  as long as you have a problem (and we will have the section were you will be able to determine that) we can help.