Essay about Substance Abuse

Submitted By bucketts24
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I decided to look around and see if there were any alcohol anoynomous meetins around my location. after a short search i found a church a couple blocks from my house that host meetings at various times throughout the week. The Emerald Babtist Church is the facility where the sessions take place. The church is located on 19th and Patterson in Eugene. The meetings were ran by a group known as Physical Awakening. On Friday, June 29, I arrived at a meeting that started at noon and went til 1pm. When I walked in there was already a number of people waiting to begin group. The instructors name was Steve, who stated that he had been battling alcohol addiction for twenty years and has been sober for fifteen. The group started out with everybody sitting in chairs forming a circle and opened with a prayer. At first I did not realize the significance of this. I noticed that many of the people in group were familiar with one another and really seem to care for one another. Everybody took turns introducing themselves and giving a litle persp ective about dealinds with addiction. The opic of the particluar session i attended talked a lot about temptation. The group discussed mostly about what triggers they have had to avoid in the recent past and how they avoided the situation. WHat i did not realize until the end of the session is that Physical Awakening practices a twelve step sobriety program. Faith in reliegeon was often referred to as what many of the participants had