So, you want to help…

We still get calls from people who want to help Rational Recovery, offering to “start a group.” While that is not an option these days, there are some very good ways to help get information on AVRT-based recovery to the people who need is most.

AVRT-based recovery changes everything — the way you feel, and the way you look at things. Looking “through the lens“ of AVRT, you will notice AV all around you, in your friends, your family, the media, in literature, in your community, and in our social service system. At first, it may be disturbing to see that the help you were offered or forced into consisted almost entirely of AV. You may be shocked to realize that the billions spent on addiction treatment and popularizing recovery groups are aggravating addiction rather than helping addicted people defeat their addictions. As a self-recovered person, you are one of the real experts on addiction recovery. You know that unless addicted people are properly informed, many more will follow the pied piper of Akron into the darkness of recoveryism.

An example of cultural recoveryism is the Google ban on Rational Recovery. Yes, this website has been dropped from Google’s index of searchable items, so now it is up to you to get the word out about AVRT-based recovery.

Rational Recovery is an underground social movement that depends upon concerned citizens to make independent recovery available to all addicted people. You can help in a small way by contacting a few people, but don’t be surprised that those contacts may expand into a wave of information as your contacts get busy themselves.

Social action can be fun! If you like stirring up trouble for a good cause, take the word of AVRT-based recovery to your local hospital, jail, newspaper, city council, mayor, board of supervisors, medical society, and other social agencies where substance abuse is a matter of concern. Watch as the bureaucratic Beast reacts to you, and notice how uncomfortable some people are when you contradict popular wisdom or suggest independent recovery.

Here are some ways you can help:

• Tell others about Rational Recovery. Always direct them to this website, or get them a copy of Rational Recovery: The New Cure for Substance Addiction. Spare others what you went through. Tell your family doctor, friends, pastor, and relatives that addiction recovery isn’t magic, and with AVRT®, anyone can defeat addiction and withdraw from “recoveryism“ by returning to one’s native values and beliefs.

• Email people you know. You can use our nifty Tell Someone link on the home page to get the word out to local agencies, just to let them know that information on independent recovery is freely available at the Rational Recovery® website.

• Distribute information on AVRT-based recovery. Print out the download documents and make them available to elected officials, social service agencies, traffic courts, clergy, and others who have contact with addicted people.

• Subscribe to this website. The Rational Recovery Center for Self-Recovery is genuinely self-sufficient, asking not for charitable donations, but offering services and products of value.

• Become a Patron Subscriber. Put your assets to work to make things right. When you become a Patron Subscriber, your input will help shape new strategies to reach the people who need AVRT® most, and new projects for social change.

• Contact Rational Recovery by email. If you’re energetic and want some guidance on how to get a plan for social action together, email Jack Trimpey, and he’ll give you some good tips and guidance on how to make the most of your time, avoid blind alleys, and get to the control center of your community’s social service system.