Over the past 20 years we’ve had clients from every background in our program.
Lawyers, teachers, stockbrokers, newspaper reporters, corporate executives are at one end of the spectrum. At the other we have parolees, the homeless, petty criminals, and street addicts.
And the interesting thing is that our better educated clients seem to have the most trouble staying sober. None of the lawyers made it, and neither did the one rocket scientist.
Conversely, we have uneducated meth users who’ve stuck around to work their way into management. Some of them have been with us for years- grateful to have found a new life and a chance to work their way into recovery.
This paradox could indicate that there’s not a lot of correlation between education and status in life and learning to live sober.
Probably our best indicator of who will undergo change and learn to live sober is how much they've suffered from an addiction. When an addict loses family, possessions, health, or freedom they begin to get the idea they can’t successfully use.
Many of us lost everything over and over before we finally got the idea…
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