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counseling evaluation says that CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) that is used at the treatment center was not required and will not be effective. Also, my probation officer couldn't understand why I was assigned to do community service in a Rehab center, especially when it was not specifically ordered in my paperwork by the judge.

Some of the clients would contemptuously insinuate that I hardly ever shared in-group. Well I had good reason, I was in shock-albeit my reservations to share at all. I just could not identify with this disease they call addiction and why it had arrested their souls. I have never wanted, needed, nor desired out of carnality to use drugs to numb my feeling. I don't like taking pain pills/aspirin, I am scared of needles; and my nose was created to excrete mucus and act as a first line of defense for my body. I don't need to "Zone" out like a zombie.

It mystified me how some of the clients believe in God, quote the word of God; but in the face of adversity, pain, trouble, and sadness the first place they run to is the dope man. He can't solve their problems-neither can the high they got from the drugs. And although addicts can purchase legally prescribed narcotic drugs without a prescription from the dope man; it's a medical fact that over time narcotic medical drugs have adverse affects on the body as well.

Clients would become boisterous if they didn't get a smoke break every hour. And if clients didn't get one before breakfast (6:30am), unsettling would be an understatement. One day the monitor told everyone they had to shower and brush their teeth before getting a smokeall hell broke loose that morning. I don't even smoke!

Every morning we had to attend morning inspiration, which consisted of introductions, self-expression, songs, inspiring words, stories, and poems. Initially it was such a pestering irritation to hear daily someone express that they were in a "Bad Space." It bothered me, because it was as if they had a permissive excuse to act irresponsibly. I would wonder is anyone ever in a "Good Space" around here. In the real world no one cares if you are in a good or bad space. However as the days passed by, I would just say a prayer and ask God to ease their pain so that they could have a good day-and use me if I could be a source of inspiration that day.

I remember one Saturday the cook poured the icing mix in the cake pans and started baking them for about 15mins before he realized his mistake. He looks at me and says "this

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