There is way too much liability involved in early sobriety for hard core dope addicts that is why sober companions would help this epidemic considerably. This is risk mitigation in its purest form because lets face it what parent wants to get the phone call that their child od ed and died or ended up on life support? Sober companion/security details should be implemented for particular individuals to get them through the first 90 days, the most crucial time period. This differs from the old school AA way of doing things where people are left up to their own devices and either they want to get sober or they don't. The disease of addiction rears its head in a myriad of ways that is why sober companions would actually save lives. Today this dope is way too powerful and its cut with fentanyl or its pure fentanyl or carfentanil so this means that the next time their son/daughter goes back out there is a solid chance that they will end up in a body bag. The sober housing units can only do so much that is why the choice to kill oneself has to be taken away from the client for at least the first 90 days. In todays world the bolt of lighting that hits somebody as far as a spiritual awakening is concerned is more often then not in a cap of heroin or a hot shot that puts people into very ugly places. If they can stay abstinent for at least 90 days but continue to attend daily meeting plus therapy the best one can hope for is a spiritual awakening or a spiritual experience of the educational variety. After the first three months the liability goes way down and the chances for long term sobriety goes way up. This disease is one day at a time for the rest of my life and if I start to think otherwise then I will end up exactly where I already was (jails, institutions, being homeless, the only place left for me is death) I have already been to very ugly places but today I want to live and share my experience with others because that is what makes all of the difference. Nobody wants to send their child to a foreign land in the hope of a (miracle of sobriety) when their most important and crucial concern should be to just keep their child alive. This issue is that serious because too many young people have already past away to the other side and are now on their next journey but one thing is clear they aren't here anymore to get the chance to get and stay sober. I am all about having the eye in the sky for all of the right reasons. Law Enforcement cant do this because they are way too busy responding to the calls once its too late or once the individual is already aspirating. Executive Protection is all about advance work, risk mitigation and prevention. One needs to know where the ieds are before you run over them. This same premise holds true for the inveterate drug addict where one must protect the client from themselves and to completely take away their power to kill themselves for at least the first 3 months. Once somebody is thrown out of their sober home for using this is one of the most crucial time periods where many addicts end up dead. If you have a detail on an individual and have contracts signed by the parents then this will be the only way one can prevent somebody from od- ing and ending up as just another statistic. This is serious work that would call for more then one individual per client. I can see a two or three member team for one individual all working together. Of course the work would be conducted on a sliding scale based on the family's economic situation. We are in the business of saving lives not hurting people financially. There is no higher calling, there is a way to keep somebody alive and abstinent in early sobriety once they get out of detox or their 30 day rehab. The goal is to eventually not have anybody on their tail as far as a security detail/sober companion is concerned. That is because once the spiritual experience at the very least of the educational variety takes place we then go to meetings because we want to. It then becomes part of our daily life, a celebration of life filled with gratitude and humility. We go to meetings because we want to but we also go to meetings because we have to. The only way for us to stay alive ourselves is to fill up our spiritual cup on a daily basis and to give away to others what was freely given to us. We are looking at a 90% recidivism rate and chances for long term sobriety are even slimmer then that. We need to start working other avenues to help people because what is being done as of today isn't working as well as it could or should in my humble opinion.
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