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What Is Recovery? A Working Definition From Betty Ford Institute (2007)
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I was led into recovery by those who advocated permanent AOD abstinence and eventual abstinence from smoking, too. I am not a candidate for moderation. I would not be a good patient using medically assisted recovery except for measures used in my successful detoxification.
I was on the verge of failing outpatient attending once a week when I was admitted for a thirty-day residential rehabilitation program. It took 18 days of residential care to break through my failure to acknowledge my addiction, 10 more days to get what I needed and aftercare once a week for 36 weeks of recovery support. Nine thousand, seven hundred and 93 days later I have been sober 26.81 years.
In early recovery I did 90 AA meetings in less than ninety days but continued to attend AA meetings regularly for up to 3 years. I have outlived three sponsors who all died in sobriety. I remain active in the recovery movement and I have witnessed a lot of failure due to public policy mistakes, insurance company interference and professional intra mural conflicts about how to treat addiction.
My oldest son and youngest brother joined me in recovery ending generations of full bore addiction in the family. We all got the same care and followed the same transitional recovery pathways. My youngest brother died of brain cancer. He stopped smoking but did not stay stopped. That did him in and I regret not having been able to convince him to recover from nicotine addiction. One of my sponsors also died of nicotine addiction, too.
When you define recovery, I think you have to study those who did recover and those that didn’t asking yourselves: why or why not?