Where Were Recovery Schools When I Needed Them?

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One of the most important things I've learned in my recovery is that if you want to recover, you have to get the hell out of the environment you used in.  That isn't always easy for a lot of us, and whenever there's a chance, every one of the addicts friends and family - assuming he/she has any left - ought to be encouraging the addict to change that physical environment.

Boston's Association of Recovery Schools (ARS) has discovered this, and they are on to something very important, as far as I'm concerned.  We addicts desperately need to have other things that are trenchant to us - clear cut and keenly focused - in order to combat the allure of using.  We need to have structure, a purpose, direction, guidance, and we also need some kind of impetus for something better.  We need role models, we need people in recovery to continually remind us that we too can do it, and most of all, we need something that motivates us more than filling our heads with fog.  Learning about addiction, both from a scientific perspective as well as from a personal perspective, helps us to understand the dangers of the path we were on and provides us with still more reason to find a better road.

To the folks who are behind this program, you have my respect and my gratitude because I know you will help a child avoid the road I traveled.  To the students who are able to attend this school, I cannot stress how fortunate you are to have this option.  I hope you'll use it to its fullest capacity because the alternative can be so terrible that most of us never recover from it, and those of us who do discover far too late the damage we've done to our minds, bodies, souls, friends, and families.

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MissionThe Association of Recovery Schools advocates for the promotion, strengthening, and expansion of secondary and post-secondary programs designed for students and families committed to achieving success in both education and recovery.ARS exists to support such schools which, as components of the recovery continuum of care, enroll students committed to being abstinent from alcohol and other drugs and working a program of recovery.VisionAll secondary and post-secondary students have access to a recovery high school or collegiate recovery community.Standards of academic and recovery practices are identified and implemented.All eligible recovery schools are ARS members.Recovery schools are seen as valued, necessary, and adequately funded parts of both the education and treatment systems.ARS operates as a financially viable and autonomous organization.