Wow, this is a really old school view on addiction treatment. Addiction counselors do not have to be addicts. The recovery rate for people who do not do 12 step is not zero unless your treatment is extremely rigid. 12 step does not work for everyone. There are other ways of sustaining long term recovery.
yes exactly! i went to a 12 step program for years and never stayed clean. i’ve been clean for 2 years now and haven’t stepped foot into a meeting. 12 step fellowships aren’t the “end-all be-all” to recovery. yes it works for some people and that’s great, but majority of people it does not. everyone recovers differently.
seriously? 179 thumbs up? Here's my qualifications: I'm 39 years old. From age 15 to 34 I was an IV addict, heroin and cocaine. I was also severely bipolar, type 1 (still am, of course, though back then I messed around with the meds and almost never took them as prescribed). 3/4s of those years I was either in a rehab or psychiatric hospital. I always went to one of these places after a particularly ugly event, like the time I ODed and died in the bathroom of an AA meeting and had to be defibrillated and narcanned in front of the entire meeting group, or the time I tried skipping my lithium for a week (didn't sleep much, either) and ended up in handcuffs and then in restraints at the local psych ER after first declaring that i was now capable of flight and attempted to jump off a 30th floor balcony (my friends restrained me), then doing a lot of other crazy stuff that i don't feel like listing, before i ended the night by menacing my best friend with a butcher knife because was she clearly a clone sent back to kill me (that's when my friends called the police).* It goes on like this until 2014. to make it short and sweet: i went on methadone (280 mg. the highest dose in poughkeepsie - - a dubious honor, but I'll take it). I stopped messing with my meds and began actually taking them as prescribed. (this didn't all happen overnight; i'm compressing for brevity). I stopped using drugs. A year later and I actually achieved (according to my psydoc) mood stability. Now I'm halfway through a CASAC course. Yeah, before I bombed out of college on heroin and manic psychosis, I had been pre-med; I definitely thought my life would be different. But you play the hand you get. Or you put a shotgun in your mouth. Anyhow. Here's my point: I had really no opinion of this video -- OK, it was boring and outdated -- until that idiot started his stupid rant against psychopharmacology and psychiatry in general. I'm sure someone else already covered the salient details, and I'm done taking a shit, so I'll finish just by saying: this video spreads disinformation. whomever distributed this piece of feces deserves to be drawn & quartered, as does the moron(s) who wrote and created this film equivalent of clinical retardation. great!
This video is wonderful! You must have boundaries in place , especially in this type of profession. What I thought would be my greatest strength... was actually my greatest weakness! The example you gave of wanting to save the world and rescue addicts. I've worked very hard for the last 2 years working on myself after realizing that a lack of boundaries would be disastrous as you say! "The most Compassionate and Happy people are the most Boundaried " Generosity can not exist without it. I'm overwhelmed at how much I've learned and the difference its made in all areas of my life... ❤️ thank you Dr. L
I am a recovering heroin addict I have been clean for 6.5years I have never done the 12 step program I have never stepped forth into any of the Anonymous meetings available I have maintain my recovery with hard work and to prove to people like yourself that recovery from rehabilitation can happen if you just want it bad enough
People like him?? He has spent so much of his life teaching / supporting others, and he is a recovering addict as well! Inpatient treatment is not for everyone but if you look at recovery statistics, what you say worked for you is a rarity! I wish you all the best in your sobriety and remember we should support others who have been there and are now " Making a difference in the lives of others " surrounding ourselves with people like us 😊
this video is wonderful. it's like a checklist of everything I've experienced and come to understand to be true about the substance abuse and process addiction field. thank you
the music on this video is extremely irritating. the content was good and thank goodness for sub titles. i resorted to turning the sound down very low to be able to get through it
I appreciate the effort but this video has an extremely one-sided view of counseling,recovery, and what it takes...I agree with some points but there are far more avenues than 12 steps
Most drug addiction counslers are not addicts most counslers are working in a drug treatment centers Like methadone clinics, or suboxone clinics and there jobs are not to tough,just alot of client intake In my opinion I think it maybe a little better for a drug counsler to understand more of where a client is coming from if they were once a drug addict themselves
I have to respectfully disagree that we can keep cannabis out of the discussion about addiction entirely. About 9% of people have susceptibility to tissue dependence on Cannabis. It's a small portion of the population but they also tend to be people with multiple addictions and dual diagnosis. A harm-reduction approach may be appropriate, especially now that it's being gradually legalized, but to totally discount or disregard that cannabis has addictive potential for some people would not be responsible for an addictions counselor. You may find some clients that have this as a serious issue affecting their lives.
im a recovering addict but not for very long. I want to start going to school for this now, exactly how can they prove that i have not been clean for 2 years? does anyone here know?
Savage Reefer the school I went to only required you to be clean for a year. This video is BS anyways because it says you can only be an addiction counselor if you were an addict. I’m was never an addict and I’m doing it.
Music is irritating. Not a word about the cause of addictions. If you don’t know or address the cause of any disease, failure is guaranteed. But apparently this doc made a career of failure.
This video is BS I am a counselor/ clinician and I am not an addict. I have never been an addict in my life I have soooo much to offer the clients I think the addicts look up to a non addict more.
uhhh don't think so you think that you have your own issues, the grants for opiate recovery don't even want to hire non-addicts-peer certification. Your patients probably just bull shit you-like this little man said addicts are creative- a person who is not an addict working with addicts is not desiring people to look up to them. That shouldn't even come out your mouth. you can be a recovered addict and your patients don't know..listen to the little man and get off your high horse! No matter how you look at it if you have not been addicted to a substance then you can only teach from the perspective of your education and equating other addictions you may have experienced through a family member, friend but you will never be able to say you have been there!
@@romega951, you do not need to be an addict, but you do need to have some emotional background for clients to truly trust or open to you. Never an addict but married to one and was a child of one.
Clients do open more when you have an emotional background with addiction. A rich person with just a degree will not progress with an addict if they only have experience from a book. I was not an addict but was married for seventeen years to one and was a child to an addict and co-dependent. Personally, I have been in the trenches so the addict feels that they can trust others like themselves. Even though I was through the gutters, I have lots of empathy and do not believe in intervention nor pushing away the family member but not giving money, but love and non-monetary support.
hi I was an addict for 25 yrs and now I'm 6 years clean I have dealt with all sorts of problems name it I've dealt with it and come thru it I have never stepped foot in any fellowship but do a lot of voluntary work would I b a candidate for a drug counsellor
I want to and will be an Addiction counselor.
Did you?
Wow, this is a really old school view on addiction treatment. Addiction counselors do not have to be addicts. The recovery rate for people who do not do 12 step is not zero unless your treatment is extremely rigid. 12 step does not work for everyone. There are other ways of sustaining long term recovery.
yes exactly! i went to a 12 step program for years and never stayed clean. i’ve been clean for 2 years now and haven’t stepped foot into a meeting. 12 step fellowships aren’t the “end-all be-all” to recovery. yes it works for some people and that’s great, but majority of people it does not. everyone recovers differently.
wow
I agree. One size does not fit all. If we are not into the 12 steps method does not mean we will not be cured.
I love how the British are ALWAYS clear and concise! Great video!
For real? The most bizarre video on UA-cam?
seriously? 179 thumbs up? Here's my qualifications: I'm 39 years old. From age 15 to 34 I was an IV addict, heroin and cocaine. I was also severely bipolar, type 1 (still am, of course, though back then I messed around with the meds and almost never took them as prescribed). 3/4s of those years I was either in a rehab or psychiatric hospital. I always went to one of these places after a particularly ugly event, like the time I ODed and died in the bathroom of an AA meeting and had to be defibrillated and narcanned in front of the entire meeting group, or the time I tried skipping my lithium for a week (didn't sleep much, either) and ended up in handcuffs and then in restraints at the local psych ER after first declaring that i was now capable of flight and attempted to jump off a 30th floor balcony (my friends restrained me), then doing a lot of other crazy stuff that i don't feel like listing, before i ended the night by menacing my best friend with a butcher knife because was she clearly a clone sent back to kill me (that's when my friends called the police).*
It goes on like this until 2014. to make it short and sweet: i went on methadone (280 mg. the highest dose in poughkeepsie - - a dubious honor, but I'll take it). I stopped messing with my meds and began actually taking them as prescribed. (this didn't all happen overnight; i'm compressing for brevity). I stopped using drugs. A year later and I actually achieved (according to my psydoc) mood stability.
Now I'm halfway through a CASAC course. Yeah, before I bombed out of college on heroin and manic psychosis, I had been pre-med; I definitely thought my life would be different. But you play the hand you get. Or you put a shotgun in your mouth.
Anyhow. Here's my point: I had really no opinion of this video -- OK, it was boring and outdated -- until that idiot started his stupid rant against psychopharmacology and psychiatry in general. I'm sure someone else already covered the salient details, and I'm done taking a shit, so I'll finish just by saying: this video spreads disinformation. whomever distributed this piece of feces deserves to be drawn & quartered, as does the moron(s) who wrote and created this film equivalent of clinical retardation. great!
This video is wonderful! You must have boundaries in place , especially in this type of profession. What I thought would be my greatest strength... was actually my greatest weakness! The example you gave of wanting to save the world and rescue addicts. I've worked very hard for the last 2 years working on myself after realizing that a lack of boundaries would be disastrous as you say! "The most Compassionate and Happy people are the most Boundaried " Generosity can not exist without it. I'm overwhelmed at how much I've learned and the difference its made in all areas of my life... ❤️ thank you Dr. L
I am a recovering heroin addict I have been clean for 6.5years I have never done the 12 step program I have never stepped forth into any of the Anonymous meetings available I have maintain my recovery with hard work and to prove to people like yourself that recovery from rehabilitation can happen if you just want it bad enough
People like him?? He has spent so much of his life teaching / supporting others, and he is a recovering addict as well! Inpatient treatment is not for everyone but if you look at recovery statistics, what you say worked for you is a rarity! I wish you all the best in your sobriety and remember we should support others who have been there and are now " Making a difference in the lives of others " surrounding ourselves with people like us 😊
Your work is astounding and as a detox and rehab worker invaluable in showing everything in a simplistic and informative way …. Thank you sir 🙏
I am going to be addiction counselar its going to take few years but I really want this.
Pat Mcdonagh well don’t listen to this video if you do...this is a horribly misleading video
What a wonderful lump of information i have stumbled upon here!
this video is wonderful. it's like a checklist of everything I've experienced and come to understand to be true about the substance abuse and process addiction field. thank you
the music on this video is extremely irritating. the content was good and thank goodness for sub titles. i resorted to turning the sound down very low to be able to get through it
Addiction counsellors have to be addicts? Has to be the strangest and most peculiar instruction video I have ever seen.
I appreciate the effort but this video has an extremely one-sided view of counseling,recovery, and what it takes...I agree with some points but there are far more avenues than 12 steps
love this! If only America would follow suit with our rehabs.
Most drug addiction counslers are not addicts most counslers are working in a drug treatment centers Like methadone clinics, or suboxone clinics and there jobs are not to tough,just alot of client intake In my opinion I think it maybe a little better for a drug counsler to understand more of where a client is coming from if they were once a drug addict themselves
12 steps is not the only way, it's just an obvious, simple, effective way. And you get to trade out your old shitty friends with new sober ones.
Keep weed out of this.
Realistically I dont think any counselor with education would say anything about cannabis unless it's clear you just can't control it
I have to respectfully disagree that we can keep cannabis out of the discussion about addiction entirely. About 9% of people have susceptibility to tissue dependence on Cannabis. It's a small portion of the population but they also tend to be people with multiple addictions and dual diagnosis. A harm-reduction approach may be appropriate, especially now that it's being gradually legalized, but to totally discount or disregard that cannabis has addictive potential for some people would not be responsible for an addictions counselor. You may find some clients that have this as a serious issue affecting their lives.
This video is what is wrong with the recovery industry.
im a recovering addict but not for very long. I want to start going to school for this now, exactly how can they prove that i have not been clean for 2 years? does anyone here know?
Savage Reefer the school I went to only required you to be clean for a year. This video is BS anyways because it says you can only be an addiction counselor if you were an addict. I’m was never an addict and I’m doing it.
Music is irritating. Not a word about the cause of addictions. If you don’t know or address the cause of any disease, failure is guaranteed. But apparently this doc made a career of failure.
AMAZING WAY TO PUT EVERYTHING..
Ok I know this video is old, but the addicts turn into creative people is few and far in between.
This video is BS
I am a counselor/ clinician and I am not an addict.
I have never been an addict in my life
I have soooo much to offer the clients
I think the addicts look up to a non addict more.
uhhh don't think so you think that you have your own issues, the grants for opiate recovery don't even want to hire non-addicts-peer certification. Your patients probably just bull shit you-like this little man said addicts are creative- a person who is not an addict working with addicts is not desiring people to look up to them. That shouldn't even come out your mouth. you can be a recovered addict and your patients don't know..listen to the little man and get off your high horse! No matter how you look at it if you have not been addicted to a substance then you can only teach from the perspective of your education and equating other addictions you may have experienced through a family member, friend but you will never be able to say you have been there!
Start school next week recovering addict I think I will enjoy this .
Addicts don't look up to a non-addict more? why yea you can "imagine" what it's like to be hooked-
@@romega951, you do not need to be an addict, but you do need to have some emotional background for clients to truly trust or open to you. Never an addict but married to one and was a child of one.
Clients do open more when you have an emotional background with addiction. A rich person with just a degree will not progress with an addict if they only have experience from a book. I was not an addict but was married for seventeen years to one and was a child to an addict and co-dependent. Personally, I have been in the trenches so the addict feels that they can trust others like themselves. Even though I was through the gutters, I have lots of empathy and do not believe in intervention nor pushing away the family member but not giving money, but love and non-monetary support.
❤this
Please share with friends and family.
hi I was an addict for 25 yrs and now I'm 6 years clean I have dealt with all sorts of problems name it I've dealt with it and come thru it I have never stepped foot in any fellowship but do a lot of voluntary work would I b a candidate for a drug counsellor
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Background sound makes it hard to hear your dialogue -_-"
Need to talk to someone.
Kim Tate
This is dumb. You're like telling people not to get in this practice.
Wolfe Lawton if you think this is dumb then counseling isn't for you
I am so glad you said it.
Take out the background music
This video is outdated and lacks perspective coming from a bachelors of psychology n human services
There are some ignorant comments on this page
How patronising
This is unbelievable. In a bad way.
LOL your not very positive pal lol
So does it come with a lab coat? 🥼