Methadone and Recovery
Jun 17, 09- (by road warrior)
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Here’s a great little clip by William White to get you thinking. Watch it and let me know what you think.
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Thank you so much for posting this! William White talks often about his change in attitude about methadone treatment and medication assisted treatment.
The sad reality is that the people that do the most bitching about people in medication assisted treatment not really being “in recovery” are actually the ONLY people that have the power to change it…yet they sit in the shadows and judge and rant instead.
Recovery advocates have no one to blame but themselves for methadone patients inability to take refuge, comfort and empowerment in healing recovery….because when it comes to methadone all the 12 step rules about judging and assessing someone elses recovery go out the window. Who should we be helping MORE? The people that have already found recovery and have a community to delve into? Or the people who live in the ghetto medical world of methadone clinics where they are never even given a chance to see what recovery can mean to their lives? They are shunned in the using world AND in the recovery world and they are continually caught in this place of prejudice and stigma that they have absolutely no control over.
If you truly believe in recovery, then you know that you can’t possibly know what it’s like to walk in someone elses addiction…and you also know that treating ANYONE with an addiction as though what they want and need doesn’t matter goes against everything the recovery community is supposed to be about.
So the next time you hear about a methadone clinic coming to an area close to you…instead of jumping on the anti-clinic band wagon–look at it as an opportunity to reach out to a struggling group of addicts who need support and comfort just as much as anyone sitting next to you at a meeting.
PS-when I say we have a chance to show them about recovery I want to go on record as saying I don’t mean showing someone how “good” it can be to be off methadone. I mean that people on methadone are every bit as capable of realizing recovery as someone not on medication.