ITS NOT A SCARY PLACE AT ALL

When I wasn't using drugs and living a somewhat normal life I worked in the shipyards. I had a friend that had to go to rehab. After hearing where he was going all I could Imagine was a place with all these people I use to see on the streets. I couldn't get past that portrail of what I thought a drug addict should look like.
When I first went to a re-hab centre and walked through those doors I was so scared of not knowing what I was in for.
I was met at the doors by a counsellor who introduced me to a woman who was to show me around the place. I thought she was another counsellor but later discovered she was a past client. We walked to the room I was to stay in and I had show her everything I had brought in with me to show I hadn't brought in any drugs. A little later she brought me to the cafeteria where most of the other clients ( addicts, alcholics, ) were mainly hanging out. I couldn't believe the people I was to meet in there.
Let me tell you something; If I was anywhere else but in a drug facility I wouldn't have guessed these people were drug addicts. I would think that I was in a class room with new people that I would like to get to know. These were people like you, people that you might have grown up with. They are people of all backgrounds, some with good careers.
I got to know these people so well and I loved them. I loved them for their strenghths and their weaknesses. I loved them for feeling safe enough to tell me their inner most secrets and to listen to mine. We came together as a family and to this day I am grateful to them for being part of my recovery. All the counsellors, the cooks, the janitors I want to thank from the bottom of my heart for listening to me when I needed someone to listen.
What I am trying to tell you is you need not worry. I have not talked to one person who had a bad thing to say about a drug rehab centre. It is not as scary as you may think. It is a sanctuary.
It is a place of peace where you can finally let your mind rest again without the chaos of drugs and addiction. It is a place of kindness and love that I want you to experience for yourself.
You know I wouldn't lie to you don't you. Just go and discover yourself and spead the word to others as I do. I try to do what I can by myself but as a group we have so much more wisdom, so much more love to share. Please won't you help yourself so you can help others. They need you.