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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 552408" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Yes, you are lucky. Around here AA/Minnesota treatment often pretty much strongly discourages people using health care system for their addiction issues. They like to ridicule it and are very vocal about how wrong it is and how only AA/Minnesota model works. Of course many sneak to have health care treatment and just don't tell it in AA. What I have seen in local addiction forums they may be in fact be a majority. When new people are asking about it on those forums they are usually told that trick is not to admit in AA meeting that you are for example using Antabuse or even worse SSRI and seeing counsellor. Then again our health care does encourage people to go to twelve step meetings, if they feel it would be helpful for them. So you can use both also here, if you just remember not to tell about it in AA.</p><p></p><p>I don't know if AA tends to so against medications elsewhere. Here it may be partly because they feel need to differentiate from public health care, there for example many of the addicts are dual diagnosed and mental health issues are treated even if person is not sober (that to my understanding is a big philosophical difference.) We also have much less availability of twelve steps programs. For example my difficult child's small city (little less than 100 000 habitants) has three or four AA groups, one weekly NA group and one monthly GA group. So of course finding a group you are comfortable with is much more difficult. And being comfortable with a group is always very important thing when it comes to any kind of support groups. If you have to grit your teeth through every meeting you are not going to benefit, whatever the method is. If for example difficult child's town would had had a group for addicted teens, I could had seen benefit for him in participating.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 552408, member: 14557"] Yes, you are lucky. Around here AA/Minnesota treatment often pretty much strongly discourages people using health care system for their addiction issues. They like to ridicule it and are very vocal about how wrong it is and how only AA/Minnesota model works. Of course many sneak to have health care treatment and just don't tell it in AA. What I have seen in local addiction forums they may be in fact be a majority. When new people are asking about it on those forums they are usually told that trick is not to admit in AA meeting that you are for example using Antabuse or even worse SSRI and seeing counsellor. Then again our health care does encourage people to go to twelve step meetings, if they feel it would be helpful for them. So you can use both also here, if you just remember not to tell about it in AA. I don't know if AA tends to so against medications elsewhere. Here it may be partly because they feel need to differentiate from public health care, there for example many of the addicts are dual diagnosed and mental health issues are treated even if person is not sober (that to my understanding is a big philosophical difference.) We also have much less availability of twelve steps programs. For example my difficult child's small city (little less than 100 000 habitants) has three or four AA groups, one weekly NA group and one monthly GA group. So of course finding a group you are comfortable with is much more difficult. And being comfortable with a group is always very important thing when it comes to any kind of support groups. If you have to grit your teeth through every meeting you are not going to benefit, whatever the method is. If for example difficult child's town would had had a group for addicted teens, I could had seen benefit for him in participating. [/QUOTE]
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