AA Conference Questions 2014 (contd)

Extract: aacultwatch forum (section 4)

“It appears the “Recovery Champions” peer mentoring treatment model is a further morphing of the Synanon Cult. Success is not always what it seems.

The following are extracts from “Walk the Line” by Harry Shapiro and Carolyn Oubridrge, Druglink July/August 2012. http://www.drugscope.org.uk/Resources/Drugscope/Documents/PDF/Publications/WalktheLine.pdf

“…In 2011, Addaction held its first conference for the organisation’s own Recovery Champions. The main speaker was therapeutic community guru and creator of the Recovery-Orientated-Integration- System (ROIS), George de Leon. He reflected back to the 1960s and the early days of Phoenix House and Synanon, whose founders, he said, were the first recovery champions, “only we didn’t call it ‘recovery’, we called it ‘change….’”

 “…But even with all the support networks in place, admits Dale-Perera, “there is a high rate of relapse of people who were Recovery Champions or service user reps. it’s really like snakes and ladders. You’ve got to a higher position, but there is always the risk of a fall from grace, and the shame people feel going back into treatment, and facing staff you might have worked with when you were no longer a client. We have an arrangement where if somebody relapses, we treat them in a service outside their area…..”

Druglink is published by the charity DrugScope, a UK charity supporting professionals working in drug and alcohol treatment, drug education and prevention and criminal justice. http://www.drugscope.org.uk/” 

Note: Conference Questions  can be downloaded in pdf from the GSO (GB) website. They are on pages  5-11, AA Service News, Issue 157, Winter 2013 http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk/download/1/Library/Documents/AA%20Service%20News/157%20Winter%202013.pdf 

Conference 2014 background material can be found on the GSO (GB) website. Follow the “Background Material for Conference 2014” link in the Document Library.  http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk/Members/Document-Library

Cheers

The Fellas (Friends of Alcoholics Anonymous)

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