Rational Recovery Monitor Program:

The Forum for the Forced (Invisible at the BBS until you are subscribed and admitted) is a meeting place for individuals who are required to participate in recovery groups and in addiction treatment services. Some members here will be complying with mandates that are objectionable and counterproductive, while others may choose to resist the mandate (1) as a matter of law, (2) because of moral and religious principles, and/or (3) to protect oneself against the harmful effects of social cultism inherent to recovery groups. This is also the home base for the Rational Recovery Monitor Program, a viable monitor program for courts and other social authorities that have a legitimate interest in the abstinence of certain individuals from alcohol and other drugs.

Whether any given court or official will make use of this monitor forum is an individual, case-by-case decision by local authorities to exclude you from their referral arrangement with the local 12-step syndicate. The usual candidates are persons convicted of DUI, persons facing drug charges in court, persons considered at risk by their employers, and professional persons considered at risk by their licensing boards and substance abuse diversion organizations. In the Rational Recovery Monitor Program, you are solely responsible to make use of the forum and make timely reports to the monitoring authority.

I will be glad to communicate on your behalf with local authorities if there are questions about the nature of the Rational Recovery Monitor Program, or about your participation here. I will verify that you are the person who posts under your user name. The minimum subscription for this monitor program is semi-annual.

The format for the Rational Recovery Monitor Program is simple;

Identify the monitoring party to me, for our records and so that lines of communication exist, and so that I may function as part of the monitor system.

Post according to a schedule agreed to by the monitoring party.

You may use screen shots or hard copies of the Forum for the Forced pages as evidence that you are accepting personal responsibility for planned, permanent abstinence from alcohol and other non-prescribed drugs. Save-to-disk/CD is not permitted for reasons of copyright and confidentiality.

All parties here — you, and I, and the monitoring party — have a duty to protect the public‘s interest in your unyielding abstinence from alcohol and other drugs. Abstinence through the principles of AVRT is the sole topic here, so keep comments and narrative on-topic in some conceivable way. Self-disclosure is discouraged for reasons of confidentiality and because AVRT-based recovery ignores peripheral issues that are often seen in a clinical light. In other words, you don’t have to say bad things about yourself in order to abstain from alcohol and other drugs.

There is no way that a monitor system can actually tell if you’ve been using unless they conduct randomly scheduled lab testing. Accordingly, I will not be able to tell if you have been using unless you disclose that information.

That said, AVRT is not a form of therapy, counseling, or addiction treatment. In AVRT-based recovery, you are on your own! You are not recovering from addictive disease, but from your own stupidity. Granted, your stupidity has clear biological foundations, but there is nothing wrong with you that caused your judgment to fail as it did leading up to your conflict with society. I believe you will find in AVRT® a clear paradigm of addiction recovery that will provide you and your monitors with a basis for realistic hope that you will remain perfectly abstinent for the rest of your days.

Remember that it is easier for me than for others to trust you because I have practically nothing at stake in your success or failure to abstain under all conditions. Nontheless, I will do my best to discern your sincerity, your intent to abstain, and your desire to increase your understanding of AVRT. In fact, those are the central purposes of this BBS and of this forum in particular. — Jack Trimpey, LCSW