MAINE COMPASS: Social stigma of drug addiction creates roadblocks to recovery
Those of us who devote our lives to helping people with addictions recover believe that we have a moral obligation to help all of our neighbors live full, drug-free lives. We have seen firsthand the damage that substance abuse has inflicted on …
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Negative Perception Derails Drug Addicts' Recovery
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama) — The society harbours a negative perception on drug addicts who use methadone to recover from their addiction, believing that methadone is another dangerous drug. This negative perception and lack of support from their …
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Helping students recover from substance abuse
A unique school in our region is helping students recovering from substance abuse get their lives and their education back on track. John Fallis is the director of a very special school/treatment centre near Shelburne. The Pine River Institute helps …
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Racist attacker is now washing feet at treatment base
A FORMER drug addict who launched a racial attack has been washing the feet of a man from a minority group in a Nottingham treatment centre. A court heard that Stephen … He washed his feet as an act of voluntary service. These things have been done …
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Editorial: Improved but Not Expanded; Mixed News on NH Medicaid
As part of the Affordable Care Act, the federal government has offered to pay the entire cost of expanding coverage to people who earn up to 138 percent of the poverty level — about $ 16,000 for a single adult — for the first three years, with the …
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Chris Brown Was Kicked Out of Malibu Rehab Center
Superior Court Judge James R. Brandlin made the ruling after reviewing a probation report from the Rihanna case stating that a rehabilitation facility in Malibu had kicked out the 24-year-old singer because he threw a rock through his mother's car …
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Welcome to Malibu, rehab city
Elements Behavioral Health now owns Promises, the original Malibu treatment centre, and several other centres around the country. "That prejudice resulted in there being very few treatment programmes that aspired to the AA philosophy – that people get …
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Grand opening of clinic demonstrates problems treating drug addicts
Report an error. Even though Tuesday was a day of celebration at the new Recovery Ottawa drug treatment centre, there was a lot of anger just under the surface. As the grand opening celebrations took place, a lone addict made a bee-line for the buffet …
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Question by Kimi: How do you feel about this idea (For a novel)?
There is this girl (Rayne, 15).
She finds out this secret treatment centre is taking people to experiment Mental Illness treatment. There’s a standardize test taken in high schools to determine who is “ill” and she is diagnosed with Maladaptive Daydream Disorder, and she and her parents decide she should go get help (basically be a gerbil).

This “centre” is in a remote area and it’s controlled by a group of people (Think: The Hunger Games). You know, controlled are the best way to train people. Anyway, so she’s there and she makes friends, blah blah–it’s a teen book–and the land has a dictator. He’s 34/35 year old and he is, in a way, their mentor. Raine ends up falling in love with him because she’s never known anything about dating and being liked and treated well, telling her secrets, etc etc.

So she gets brave and scales a wall and whatnot to see him alone and they bond. He falls her (Creepily, but nevertheless, sweetly) and then sneak around like idiots. Obviously, a 35 year old with a 15 year old depressed teen is seen as slightly twisted, and it is. He is six times as f**ked up as Rayne but he hides it for weeks (He has advisers and an assistant) until he can’t anymore and he just snaps and everyone in treatment snaps and there is just this terrible, tragic domino effect

Now, it’s not supposed to be crazy and dark, but I really wanted to play with the idea of the knight in shining amour being nothing and how vulnerable we become when we think someone can save us for us. How do you feel about this? Is it okay?

P.S. I apologize for errors. 🙂

Best answer:

Answer by Lisa
I would read it!
It seems like it would be an addicting story O.O

Answer by Ken
Sounds awesome its a new idea and there’s so many ways to go with it. I so go for it!

Addictions Services makes presentation to public
There were representatives from many different support groups, including the Gambling Education Services, the Family Treatment Centre, Valley Hill Youth Treatment Centre, SIAST students taking the addictions counsellor program, a group of students from …
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Lifeline available for families of alcoholics in Swindon
Swindon and Wiltshire drug and alcohol service staff, from left, Phil Spalding, Jo Stevenson, Barabara Pike, Denny Reed and Chris Stickler. SWADS has a support group for the family of addicts. FEAR, guilt or a sense of betrayal. Those are just a few of …
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