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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 552891" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>I am not a fan of the Anonymous groups but that probably doesnt surprise anyone. I have never gone to any of the AA or NA groups because I dont think I have ever had those issues but I did try OA twice and I found them to be the strangest meetings I have had the misfortune of attending. I would chalk one up to just a bad group but when both were similar it makes me think all are that way.</p><p></p><p>I really went because I felt I had a problem with overeating and wanted support with that but I was quickly told that we would follow rigidly the 12 step model of AA but the one thing we simply could not and would not ever speak about was food. I was astounded! How on earth were we going to work on an addiction to food without talking about food? I am not sure but I would think that in AA they talk about alcohol at some point in time. It seems to me that OA is just trying to ignore the subject. Food is even a harder issue because we have to eat. We cant just not eat like we can just not drink alcohol. There has to be some food entering the body. I would have thought we would have talked about how we worked on overeating from week to week but no...that was taboo. I also dont go in for the higher power deal...even less back then. </p><p></p><p>Now as far as soboxone or methadone for the treatment of opiate addiction, I have seen that work. I have also taken methadone for pain relief and I have never felt any sort of high from it at all and I didnt become even dependent to it. I easily stopped it. I have never had experience with the other. I have also heard good things about antibuse and I have heard that there is another one either on the market now or in the pipeline coming out soon. If your child has an addiction to another drug, Im not sure what there is to help. I dont believe there is anything to help with pot unless its a SSRI that would help with the psychological need to alter one's state of mind. I believe most folks use pot to self medicate so maybe something else would work. Not real sure there. And with meth or coke...I have no clue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 552891, member: 1514"] I am not a fan of the Anonymous groups but that probably doesnt surprise anyone. I have never gone to any of the AA or NA groups because I dont think I have ever had those issues but I did try OA twice and I found them to be the strangest meetings I have had the misfortune of attending. I would chalk one up to just a bad group but when both were similar it makes me think all are that way. I really went because I felt I had a problem with overeating and wanted support with that but I was quickly told that we would follow rigidly the 12 step model of AA but the one thing we simply could not and would not ever speak about was food. I was astounded! How on earth were we going to work on an addiction to food without talking about food? I am not sure but I would think that in AA they talk about alcohol at some point in time. It seems to me that OA is just trying to ignore the subject. Food is even a harder issue because we have to eat. We cant just not eat like we can just not drink alcohol. There has to be some food entering the body. I would have thought we would have talked about how we worked on overeating from week to week but no...that was taboo. I also dont go in for the higher power deal...even less back then. Now as far as soboxone or methadone for the treatment of opiate addiction, I have seen that work. I have also taken methadone for pain relief and I have never felt any sort of high from it at all and I didnt become even dependent to it. I easily stopped it. I have never had experience with the other. I have also heard good things about antibuse and I have heard that there is another one either on the market now or in the pipeline coming out soon. If your child has an addiction to another drug, Im not sure what there is to help. I dont believe there is anything to help with pot unless its a SSRI that would help with the psychological need to alter one's state of mind. I believe most folks use pot to self medicate so maybe something else would work. Not real sure there. And with meth or coke...I have no clue. [/QUOTE]
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