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Concentrate your time
on playing solitaire and Scrabble,
watching TV and listening to a boom box
with all the latest Drug culture songs. |
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Insist you have to
make several business calls each and
every day or your company will go belly
up. |
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Repeatedly threaten
to jump ship; actually leave before the
course of educational treatment is
completed. |
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Sleep late, then sack
out again after breakfast during your
free time. Skip meetings and group
sessions. Think up really good excuses
(like a blinding
headache) to explain your absences. |
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Go through the
motions to appease your sponsor, do not
participate in group, daydream and wish
you were somewhere else and pretend you are together and
paying attention when you are not. |
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B.S. everybody; say
you will do what you should, but then
conveniently forget. Lie to yourself and
to everyone else. After all, who will know? Do
not write in
your journal and do not be honest with your
answers. |
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Stubbornly resent the
fact that They have taken away your
freedom, that you have cut off from the
love of your life and your bosom buddies and show that
resentment by fighting the educational
process every step of the way. |
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Wallow in self-pity
that AA people sometimes call sitting on
the pity pot poor me, nothing ever goes
right for me. So rehab won't work either. I only
drink (or drug) because of all my
problems, and my problems won't go away
Ignore these important truths: You drink
or take drugs because
you have a disease called addiction;
everybody has problems, some even worse
than yours; not everybody turns to chemicals to deal
(or escape dealing) with them. |
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Be a know-it-all student. What do
sponsors and educators know anyway? They
are alcoholics, too. Besides, I am
smarter than all of these other addicts. I
don't need a string of clichés to live
my life or a sponsor to tell me what
to do; I can take care of myself, I am not
a puppet whose strings
they can pull. Forget about who or what
as pulling the strings when you were
drinking or drugging. |
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Act dumb, so nothing
will be expected from you. Nothing is
just what you will get out of rehab. |
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Romance the drink or the drug. Talk
about the good things you felt or that
happened when you were using alcohol or
other drugs. Daydream a lot about
drug paraphernalia and culture. |
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Keep compatible
company. Spend all the time you can with
people doing the same things listed
above. |
