The craziest thing happend on twitter today. I was going through my blog set up routine. Filing through my work to see what I wanted to share with the world and talk about. Then I read this question:

Disclaimer the people and places will not be revealed intentionally: Back to the question:

(A woman asks:)

Can anyone name 10 American inpatient rehabs that do not require 12 step participation & do not use 12step ideas (ie powerlessness, labeling oneself addict, stepwork) in any of their therapeutic day programming? (referral to meetings OK) someone comes through and rebuts with this response:

(Man answers):

Is it a conspiracy or lack of an effective alternative? For better or worse, 12 step meetings can be found everywhere to support those in recovery.

(It seems not matter the question in life, when we don't know an answer you pull on theroies or conspiracy and want to blame aliens right): This has been a problem for me when it comes to a lot of disucssions in the American public, crazy writers are given more credit for viewed publication than realistic and accredited truth.

(I state:)

It is not a conspiracy it is just how things have developed in the guise of suggesting these steps are effective. Propagated on the idea that everyone is sick and in need of recovery from something. #GreatTopic<<<I feel that is a safe answer and unless I have a solution for the quesstion: what more can be said?

Then something amazing happens: this guy comes out of no where and says something that makes sense:

(Strange man:)

In the 20th century, addiction treatment was born, and it just so happened to thrive and proliferate outside of mainstream medicine: MN Model. FL Model, etc. There’s a shift now to fold addiction into primary care, eg: GP’s should be able to prescribe drugs like buprenorphine. Then a whole chain of viewers and listeners chime in and start making sense:

(Another strange man:)

Yes and medcalizing peoples relationship to drugs isn’t the panacea. Buprenorphine - suboxone, methadone are all abstinence based therapies. Where you have to b abstinent from all drugs which buys in to the idea that if you are “hooked” on one you’ll have a prob w/ all.

(Really wonderful stuff right?)

(Woman from the begining ends conversation with:)

Not necessarily. There are harm reduction programs that use those medications and don't require abstinence from everything else.

#GreatTopic wonderful stuff: Rah Rah>>> this is what I am thinking: after all is said and done this one conversation dragged 11 people into it and I think that is nice we all rallied around one topic very nicely: Great with my cup of coffee:

Then sadness falls on me for not a single one asked about my art work, suggested how they could not stand it or anything, just pictures on a wall of some sort: I had to ask myself what does the opiod crisis have in common with my art work and then I was really sad: was my work being compared to that of a person on pills....oh yeah I have a piece of work for that and come my next publication this old owl will show you his contempt for pills alright...