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Assignment: Addiction Recovery

Due By: 6/4/23 @ 11:59 PM

Instructions: Complete each Addiction Recovery assignment listed below.

Upload your work to the Canvas drop-box titled Virtual Clinical Assignments by the due date.

1. Attend AA or NA 12-step Meeting and complete the research & writing assignment provided.

2. Attend a Refuge Recovery Meeting and complete the research & writing assignment provided.

12-Step Program

For your AA or NA meeting, select a meeting listed as an open meeting. This means the meetings are open to observers. If you are asked to introduce yourself in a meeting or if someone greets you when you go in, it is perfectly fine to just say you are there to learn more about alcoholism or addiction. You do not need to explain that you are a student etc., in fact, it is preferable that you don’t to avoid making other attendees to feel as though they are being observed or uncomfortable with your presence.

You may attend the meeting in person or on-line. *See the additional question to answer if you attend on-line.

Consider the following and submit your responses. Remember as with many things in nursing school and in life, you get out what you put in. Make this experience worth your time; make this experience count.

If you feel comfortable to do so, you can talk to some of the meeting attendees after the meeting to find out what they like about AA/NA. Don’t get too personal/respect their privacy, but you can get a sense of what attracts them to this method of recovery support.

Prior to attending the meeting, what are your expectations? What kind of people do you think you will see there? What kind of stories or messaging do you anticipate?

List the meeting location and time/date that you attended.

What kind of meeting was it? Were there speakers or did everyone voluntarily share? Was there a guided topic? Was the meeting focused on reading from the Big Book or study of the steps? Was there other reading material used or discussed?

Look at the steps. After reading them, what do you think is the purpose or benefit to these steps in helping people become and stay sober?

What do you see as potential pitfalls of the program or meeting? Is there anything that you can identify that may discourage someone from attending regularly or using this method of recovery?

Were your prior expectations of the meeting met? What was the same? What was different?

Describe at least one thing that you learned from the meeting that you feel could benefit you personally.

*If you attended online: what are the pros and cons of the online format instead of in-person meetings which have been the staple of the program until recent years?

Refuge Recovery Program

Go to the Refuge Recovery website and read about the philosophy and goal of this program. Use the meeting finder to locate a meeting. In person meetings are limited so you may locate an online meeting to attend if you choose. For these meetings, you are not expected to participate or speak, but rather just to listen.

Consider the following and submit your responses. Remember as with many things in nursing school and in life, you get out what you put in. Make this experience worth your time; make this experience count.

If you feel comfortable to do so, you can talk to some of the meeting attendees after the meeting to find out what they like about Refuge Recovery. Don’t get too personal/respect their privacy, but you can get a sense of what attracts them to this method of recovery support.

Prior to attending the meeting, what are your expectations? What kind of people do you think you will see there? What kind of stories or messaging do you anticipate?

List the meeting location and time/date that you attended.

What kind of meeting was it? Were there speakers or did everyone voluntarily share? Was there a guided topic? Was there reading material used or discussed?

Review the guiding principles of this program. What do you think is the purpose or benefit of this program in helping people become and stay sober?

What do you see as potential pitfalls of the program or meeting? Is there anything that you can identify that may discourage someone from attending regularly or using this method of recovery?

Were your prior expectations of the meeting met? What was the same? What was different?

Describe at least one thing that you learned from the meeting that you feel could benefit you personally.

*If you attended online: what are the pros and cons of the online format instead of in-person meetings which have been the staple of the program until recent years?

Once you have attended both Refuge Recovery and AA/NA, compare the two. Which one did you connect with the most and why?