Women's Treatment Programs
When Alcoholics Anonymous began, over 70 years ago, women were not invited to attend most AA meetings. Even 20 years ago, women in Southern California had the nearly impossible task, finding a recovery center for women. Men still outnumber women in recovery centers. But finally women have somewhere to go. The programs tend to be small but strongly supported through fellowship among sober women The number of women in jails and prisons has increased dramatically, and many of them are offering programs as an alternative sentence or for early release.
Drug Rehab Programs in California are the answer. As women are coming out of their own closets as Alcoholics and addicts, they finally have a place to call home. Yellowstone Recovery in California has helped over 5000 women, many of whom came from local jails as a consequence of the Saturday night “party”. For even young women, the party is over. Drugs and Alcohol have ruined their good times, and the State of California has increased consequences for drug Possession and Driving under the influence. Through addiction treatment for women, they never have to go to jail again. They learn how to stay sober and clean, as well as how to be joyous and free from drugs and alcohol.
Women also learn how to be friends to one another. Socialized only to value men, drugs and alcohol have usually eliminated any possibility for friendship with other women. As women get sober, they discover women as the mirror of themselves and they also discover sober women have self respect and values they have been missing for a long time. In jails and prisons, 75% of all visits go to men, surprising since we have a stereotype of women as always being cared for by men. But statistics don’t support this. The truth is that women are second to men in numbers and success in Drug Treatment.
Women can change their lives in recovery. They can become self-supporting through their own contributions. They can realize their visions instead of their fantasies. Some go back to work; others find new careers. All of them progress. The good news is that women in recovery are on the rise. Meetings which used to have only one or two women are now filling up with women of courage and a desperate need to get sober. And the ages are getting younger and younger. A young woman of 21 or 22 may have years’ experience with drugs, especially methamphetamines, the “Speed demon of the decade.”
Drugs are so potent now, that even a year or two of drugs can produce significant physical and mental damage. As a result sometimes even the youngest women may need a year to recover. When they drink and use drugs, all of their values disappear. When they get sober they have desire to retrieve them, to feel whole again, to feel honest, to become a program of attraction as sober women.
Drug Treatment is a solution for behavior problems caused by drugs and alcohol. Drug addicts tend to behave as though there are no rules, or the rules don’t apply to them. Women forget courtesy, kindness, tolerance, respect, or even good manners. In treatment, women learn to behave better than they feel, to help other women, to treat other women as they would treat themselves, to see women as sick with a disease for which there is a solution. Women thrive in drug treatment programs. Many of their daily decisions are made for them, they are reminded of how bad their own decisions were, and they learn how to make better ones. In Southern California, recovery is as popular now as drugs were in the 60s. Women don’t just look better sober, and behave better sober, they live better sober. Women’s Treatment Programs are designed to help get sober and stay sober. Learning how to stay sober is the best reason for Women’s Treatment Programs. Usually they are at least 90 days, some as long as a year. They focus on the principles of the 12 steps of recovery, getting a sponsor, going to meetings with other women, and applying the principles of recovery in their daily program.
Women have long been the “closet” alcoholics and drug addicts. They are less likely to kill themselves than men, probably because they lack tools usually available to men: guns, knives, cars, but they try suicide more often. Unquestionably overdose of drugs is a way to “end it all.” But the primary problem is that they have not begun to live. Methamphetamine deaths are on the rise, especially when combined with prescription drugs. Cocktails now include alcohol and prescription Drugs such as Vicodin, Ativan, Elavil, Demerol, Seroquel. In fact, some labels and lists of side effects for these drugs include suicide. Women’s Treatment Programs give women a new way to live.
They learn about Christian principles, instead of competition. They learn to help one another rather than oppose each other. They learn that a “drug free” life is possible for them and that it has a bigger “high” than drugs ever had. The numbers of professional women is on the rise in California Women in recovery have an increasing chance to join those professions. First they learn how to become good employees. Recovery teaches them how to “suit up and show up” and to arrive on time and stay all day, doing a good day’s work. Of course, women in recovery have also learned honesty, cash register honesty as well as honesty with their employers, accepting their part in whatever mistakes are made. At the end of the day, sober women are the employees most grateful to have a job and willing to work hard in order to keep that job.
Drug Treatment Programs provide a new design for living that steps away from the old life. Less selfish self serving, or living at others’ expense. In some ways, we all need a program for better living. For women In recovery, living sober is the answer.
Drug Rehab Programs in California are the answer. As women are coming out of their own closets as Alcoholics and addicts, they finally have a place to call home. Yellowstone Recovery in California has helped over 5000 women, many of whom came from local jails as a consequence of the Saturday night “party”. For even young women, the party is over. Drugs and Alcohol have ruined their good times, and the State of California has increased consequences for drug Possession and Driving under the influence. Through addiction treatment for women, they never have to go to jail again. They learn how to stay sober and clean, as well as how to be joyous and free from drugs and alcohol.
Women also learn how to be friends to one another. Socialized only to value men, drugs and alcohol have usually eliminated any possibility for friendship with other women. As women get sober, they discover women as the mirror of themselves and they also discover sober women have self respect and values they have been missing for a long time. In jails and prisons, 75% of all visits go to men, surprising since we have a stereotype of women as always being cared for by men. But statistics don’t support this. The truth is that women are second to men in numbers and success in Drug Treatment.
Women can change their lives in recovery. They can become self-supporting through their own contributions. They can realize their visions instead of their fantasies. Some go back to work; others find new careers. All of them progress. The good news is that women in recovery are on the rise. Meetings which used to have only one or two women are now filling up with women of courage and a desperate need to get sober. And the ages are getting younger and younger. A young woman of 21 or 22 may have years’ experience with drugs, especially methamphetamines, the “Speed demon of the decade.”
Drugs are so potent now, that even a year or two of drugs can produce significant physical and mental damage. As a result sometimes even the youngest women may need a year to recover. When they drink and use drugs, all of their values disappear. When they get sober they have desire to retrieve them, to feel whole again, to feel honest, to become a program of attraction as sober women.
Drug Treatment is a solution for behavior problems caused by drugs and alcohol. Drug addicts tend to behave as though there are no rules, or the rules don’t apply to them. Women forget courtesy, kindness, tolerance, respect, or even good manners. In treatment, women learn to behave better than they feel, to help other women, to treat other women as they would treat themselves, to see women as sick with a disease for which there is a solution. Women thrive in drug treatment programs. Many of their daily decisions are made for them, they are reminded of how bad their own decisions were, and they learn how to make better ones. In Southern California, recovery is as popular now as drugs were in the 60s. Women don’t just look better sober, and behave better sober, they live better sober. Women’s Treatment Programs are designed to help get sober and stay sober. Learning how to stay sober is the best reason for Women’s Treatment Programs. Usually they are at least 90 days, some as long as a year. They focus on the principles of the 12 steps of recovery, getting a sponsor, going to meetings with other women, and applying the principles of recovery in their daily program.
Women have long been the “closet” alcoholics and drug addicts. They are less likely to kill themselves than men, probably because they lack tools usually available to men: guns, knives, cars, but they try suicide more often. Unquestionably overdose of drugs is a way to “end it all.” But the primary problem is that they have not begun to live. Methamphetamine deaths are on the rise, especially when combined with prescription drugs. Cocktails now include alcohol and prescription Drugs such as Vicodin, Ativan, Elavil, Demerol, Seroquel. In fact, some labels and lists of side effects for these drugs include suicide. Women’s Treatment Programs give women a new way to live.
They learn about Christian principles, instead of competition. They learn to help one another rather than oppose each other. They learn that a “drug free” life is possible for them and that it has a bigger “high” than drugs ever had. The numbers of professional women is on the rise in California Women in recovery have an increasing chance to join those professions. First they learn how to become good employees. Recovery teaches them how to “suit up and show up” and to arrive on time and stay all day, doing a good day’s work. Of course, women in recovery have also learned honesty, cash register honesty as well as honesty with their employers, accepting their part in whatever mistakes are made. At the end of the day, sober women are the employees most grateful to have a job and willing to work hard in order to keep that job.
Drug Treatment Programs provide a new design for living that steps away from the old life. Less selfish self serving, or living at others’ expense. In some ways, we all need a program for better living. For women In recovery, living sober is the answer.
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