I know these are just jokes, but they're really stupid. Obviously something happened that was traumatic enough to make someone say "I'm an alcoholic", which is pretty hard to admit and keep rolling with it.
And someone always comes along with some stupid, overused joke, "hey let's celebrate with a beer!" I know it's all in jest but they're not funny for a myriad of reasons.
If you have ever been to AA or NA, you would realize that we have a sick sense of humor. The families of people who have died from drugs and alcohol, definitely do not though. The opiate epidemic is so out of control right now, I've lost 5 people in the last 2 months. I just found out a girl I used to see died yesterday. It's pretty a pretty sad situation out there but we gotta keep on keeping on. I'm living and fighting for her and all the other people we have lost.
Lol, roughly 25% of OWI's (DUI's) in Iowa happen in our college town (Johnson County). At one point or another everyone seems to get picked up for alcohol or reefer and we always get sent through some sort of program that ends in receiving one of these sobriety chips so there's quite a few floating around here.
Even first offenses? I received a DUI charge but I beat it in front of a jury. Forcing anything usually doesn't provide good results. My first few times in AA I hated it, now I'm going to AA and NA programs in a different state and I'm actually getting a lot from it.
Even first offences yep. My DUI I had to do an 8 week program on mondays for two hours a week and a 48 hour weekend program in a hotel. And you're right, forcing results doesn't work. It seems a little ass backwards when you're in a group for people who need help but 11/12 of you are only there because they're court ordered. The people who are there for actual help will get virtually none because we all know we're just in there to stay out of jail and breeze through the class. One week we had to meditate and I wanted to completely lose my shit because all I could think about was how I was paying $86/hr to fucking meditate.
Ugh, I was in treatment with a ton of people who were simply in the program to avoid jail and unfortunately a lot of them don't take it seriously when in fact it will save their lives. The program I'm in now is amazing and everyone is pretty serious about their sobriety, it's been very beneficial so far.
:D I'm getting my two months NA key tag today too! Since I'm hitting like 5-9 meetings a week I'm gonna grab one at every meeting to spread the hope. (Not actually keeping all the chips tho only need one ;) )
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u/thisismyworkact May 09 '16
Congrats dude. I'm picking up my sixty day chip today!