Drug counselling spider diagram

Image by ohskylab
A drug-counsellor friend found this diagram on a whiteboard at work after another counsellor had given a two hour session. He recreated it on paper for us.

Prison drug counseling for theft defendant
Christian B. Merchant, 33, told Chelan County Superior Court Judge T.W.“Chip” Small he was grateful his sentence includes prison-based drug treatment. He maintained his innocence under an Alford plea but agreed he would likely be found guilty of …
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Merlene Davis: Counselors can help with confusion about Medicare, drug plan …
People are notified when a company drops out of the plan, but too often people don't realize a particular drug has been dropped by a company until they try to get a refill in January. Fortunately, the counselors at the SHIP, a service offered in this …
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I-Team: Addiction Clinic Accused of Inflating Medicaid Bills, Again
One of the busiest drug counseling centers in New York schedules unnecessary and sometimes unproductive appointments for its clients, inflating the Medicaid bills that get passed along to the taxpayer, former clients and employees of the center allege.
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Question by Shabu Shabu: Do I have to be in Drug Counselling my whole life?
45 years ago my dad let me take a sip of his beer. About 8 years ago the government found out.

I have been in Court-Ordered Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous classes ever since. I’ve never tried drugs, and have not had beer since that incident in the 1960’s! I’m a coffee drinker and a book worm. Alcohol makes you stupid and I never drank it.

These classes are really annoying. I have to take 24 hours of classes a week. Three for each, three times a week, and half-time on weekends. Everything I do, I am accused of “relapsing” and getting put back in a hospital or jail! My “sponsor” is a crack-head and thinks anytime I do ANYTHING it’s because of my “addiction” or my “disease”.

A “disease” I got as a kid, that sadly, there is no cure for. No pill to cure.

I am also forced to do 2-4 prayers to Jesus at every meeting. Even though I am not Christian. I was told “Your higher power can be anything you want. Even an ashtray if you want, but Jesus is the highest Power!”

This is all really distressing me and my life to where I’m starting to seriously think about drinking! Will I have to take these classes forever?? Or can I somehow get my life back? Shouldn’t my dad be responsible for giving me alcohol? It’s not my fault! I don’t feel diseased. But they say that’s the denial of the illness talking….

Any advice? Thank you…

Best answer:

Answer by Mollie
Is this a joke? There is no place on earth the government would require someone to pray to Jesus.

Add your own answer in the comments!

Question by Shabu Shabu: Do I have to be in Drug Counselling my whole life?
45 years ago my dad let me take a sip of his beer. About 8 years ago the government found out.

I have been in Court-Ordered Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous classes ever since. I’ve never tried drugs, and have not had beer since that incident in the 1960’s! I’m a coffee drinker and a book worm. Alcohol makes you stupid and I never drank it.

These classes are really annoying. I have to take 24 hours of classes a week. Three for each, three times a week, and half-time on weekends. Everything I do, I am accused of “relapsing” and getting put back in a hospital or jail! My “sponsor” is a crack-head and thinks anytime I do ANYTHING it’s because of my “addiction” or my “disease”.

A “disease” I got as a kid, that sadly, there is no cure for. No pill to cure.

I am also forced to do 2-4 prayers to Jesus at every meeting. Even though I am not Christian. I was told “Your higher power can be anything you want. Even an ashtray if you want, but Jesus is the highest Power!”

This is all really distressing me and my life to where I’m starting to seriously think about drinking! Will I have to take these classes forever?? Or can I somehow get my life back? Shouldn’t my dad be responsible for giving me alcohol? It’s not my fault! I don’t feel diseased. But they say that’s the denial of the illness talking….

Any advice? Thank you…

Best answer:

Answer by Mollie
Is this a joke? There is no place on earth the government would require someone to pray to Jesus.

What do you think? Answer below!

Drug counselling spider diagram

Image by ohskylab
A drug-counsellor friend found this diagram on a whiteboard at work after another counsellor had given a two hour session. He recreated it on paper for us.

Drug support and counselling service launched
'The charity is welcoming the challenge of adding drugs misuse counselling to its growing portfolio of interventions.' Thea Ozenturk, director of Motiv8. added: 'Addictive behaviours are very comparable and the issues that people face in life that …
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Patient counseling course to redefine pharmacists' role in healthcare
The drugs included in the manual approved by the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI), guides the pharmacist about adverse drug reactions and dispensing tips of drugs while counseling the patient. Saili S Masal, registrar, MSPC said,"The course got …
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Fine after drug counsellor found with ecstasy tablets
A DRUG counsellor, caught with seven ecstasy tablets at the Big Pineapple Music Festival, has told a court he had taken the drugs from a friend and planned to flush them down the toilet. Nathan Douglas Marriage, 37, of Maroochydore, and the friend, was …
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Question by Shabu Shabu: Do I have to be in Drug Counselling my whole life?
45 years ago my dad let me take a sip of his beer. About 8 years ago the government found out.

I have been in Court-Ordered Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous classes ever since. I’ve never tried drugs, and have not had beer since that incident in the 1960’s! I’m a coffee drinker and a book worm. Alcohol makes you stupid and I never drank it.

These classes are really annoying. I have to take 24 hours of classes a week. Three for each, three times a week, and half-time on weekends. Everything I do, I am accused of “relapsing” and getting put back in a hospital or jail! My “sponsor” is a crack-head and thinks anytime I do ANYTHING it’s because of my “addiction” or my “disease”.

A “disease” I got as a kid, that sadly, there is no cure for. No pill to cure.

I am also forced to do 2-4 prayers to Jesus at every meeting. Even though I am not Christian. I was told “Your higher power can be anything you want. Even an ashtray if you want, but Jesus is the highest Power!”

This is all really distressing me and my life to where I’m starting to seriously think about drinking! Will I have to take these classes forever?? Or can I somehow get my life back? Shouldn’t my dad be responsible for giving me alcohol? It’s not my fault! I don’t feel diseased. But they say that’s the denial of the illness talking….

Any advice? Thank you…

Best answer:

Answer by Mollie
Is this a joke? There is no place on earth the government would require someone to pray to Jesus.

What do you think? Answer below!

Schools budget expands drug counselling
Drug counselling, special education staffing and support for the rollout of full-day kindergarten would receive new money under a proposed Ottawa-Carleton District School Board budget. The 2013-2014 operating budget recommended by staff includes …
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Daily pill could prevent HIV infection
The volunteers were divided into two groups: one took a daily dose of tenofovir, a frontline HIV drug; the other took a dummy pill called a placebo. Both groups were offered monthly testing for HIV, condoms, counselling and methadone treatment to wean …
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So here comes the female Viagra, but do we need it?
It's hard to put a figure on the potential value of that market, as while US studies show that between 9% and 26% of women have hypoactive sexual desire disorder (prolonged loss/lack of libido), some say drug companies exaggerate the number and hype …
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