Some Consequences

A client who’s been with us for more than a month pulled one of our managers aside this week and confessed that he’d smoked meth during his first week in the program.  He said he’d had a guilty conscience ever since.

Because using drugs is an automatic discharge the manager called his supervisor wondering what to do. After all, the client had come forward and had been a good resident all along.  But on the other hand he violated a cardinal rule.

So what to do?

After some conversation the client was allowed to stay because it wouldn’t have been right to discharge him for having the courage to come forward. However, he did receive consequences.

He has to start his program over, even though he’d nearly completed some of the initial requirements such as Big Book Study and Relapse Prevention.