Somebody's been watching Breaking Bad.

AA can never take competition...

There has to be a special place in hell for dealers who prey on people in recovery.

It's pretty common knowledge that IOP and meetings are great places to find drugs.

Methadone clinics and needle exchanges are even better.

@1, more like some writers at Breaking Bad have been to AA!

@5, ha ha ha, sob.

@6, laugh-cry is the PERFECT response sometimes. I heard of a guy in AA a decade, decided to swish some Listerine one morning, next thing you know he was half-dead in an Aurora motel surrounded by dozens of Listerine empties.

Writers who don't listen in at the occasional open AA meeting are missing out. Between the real stories and the bravado-laced obvious embellishments SO MUCH raw material.

@7, girl, I hear you. As a child of 7 or 8, I was sent off to FAMILY REHAB with my estranged dad in southern Idaho. I was so enraged--no crime I could've committed justified banishing me to a cornfield with a pack of drunks.

The stories they told were interesting but my grandparents ended up calling my mother and cutting my rehab stint short because I wouldn't stop singing "99 bottles of beer on the wall." Ah, memories.

"family rehab with my estranged dad in southern Idaho". Oh. Oh. Oh.

Now come on --- it was AA, not NA. Totally different.

Cannabis is safer than alcohol, or oxyC...;-D

" Nomadian Community Resource Center off Rainier" I could not find on a map...is this the 1504 Club?

Ahhh, memories ... No Christmas can ever top the one where my family all went to visit my brother in rehab, waiting while the staff opened all the gifts we brought him beforehand to make sure we hadn't smuggled anything in.

Gold star moment of the visit: my brother lamenting over how he would have to find a whole new circle of friends because he wouldn't be able to be around the old crowd anymore - my mom suggested, "well, you wouldn't have to drink with them, maybe you could just have coke ... Er, well, 7-Up ..."

Good times.

"What an allegedly terrible environment in which to try and stay sober."

Yes, being around addicts is a pretty poor environment to try and stay sober.