420 Summit

Blech

For a brief period of time, say about twenty minutes, I decided that I would use this site to chronicle my recovery. I could help others, while helping myself. Maybe even save a life or, at the very least, impress the hell out of my primary counselor. I could sit here behind my keyboard, buried, like any good doper in overflowing ashtrays, half drunk cups of coffee and Leonard Cohen cd’s — it’s not unheard of for there to be a cigarette floating in a Dunkin Donuts cup on a Leonard Cohen cd — and dispense pearls of wisdom overheard between naps in any of the dozen or so meetings I attend every week.

That’s not gonna happen.

Between therapy, meetings and hanging out with my new sober buddies I do not lack for outlets. There is even a chance that some of these people are actually interested. However, recovery is a lot like addiction. You either have it or you don’t and f you don’t, you don’t care. If you do, you probably want to read about it here as much as I want to write about it.

Anyway, it’s not like there is a shortage of these things. A Google search for “alcoholic blogs” returns hundreds mixed in among an equal number of cocktail recipe sites. In all honesty, the mixology sites are much more interesting and even offer useful information — more than I can say about the sappy gibberish on the others.

I have a better idea. I’m going to start a site, rehab-reviews or something, were we can rate the various rehabilitation facilities popping up everywhere. Something for addicts, by addicts where we can discuss the important stuff: male to female ratios, smoking policies, food. You know, the little details that separate rehab from prison.

It’s those details that matter. Any rehab can educate you, as if it matters what receptor does what, and every aftercare plan is the same in the end — don’t use and go to meetings.

Since in the end it’s all the same, why not make the journey as comfortable as possible? I figure we’ll use little martini glasses instead of stars for the ratings. The clinicians will love it.