But also very important for us to be aware when the term is being used
loosely or inappropriately. This gives an opportunity to EFTC (and maybe
even ATC) to add a Comment to the article, pointing out that it isn't a
therapeutic community, that the place itself doesn;t claim to be one,
and so on. By a kind of consistent drip-drip-drip effect, journalists
and readers will be slowly educated. Certainly there's nothing to lose.
How about it?
Craig
Rowdy Yates wrote:
> Craig
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> I do know of this place. Although it is described as a TC in the article, it is actually a "for-profit" 12-step programme. In fairness, I don't think the actually say they are a TC themselves ( http://www.lifeworkscommunity.com/) - but it's another example of the term being used so loosely that it's almost meaningless.
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> Rowdy Yates
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> Scottish Addiction Studies
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> Department of Applied Social Science
> University of Stirling
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> From: Craig Fees <[log in to unmask]>
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> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:45:07 +0100
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> Conversation: [EFTC] TC in the news
> Subject: [EFTC] TC in the news
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> "I'm sorry the story of my alcoholism made you so ashamed of me, daddy"
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> By Helen Weathers
> <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=y=Helen+Weathers <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=y&authornamef=Helen+Weathers><http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=y=Helen+Weathers%20<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=y&authornamef=Helen+Weathers> >
> Daily Mail
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>> Rosie Boycott still walks with a slight limp; the constant, shaming
>> reminder of the drink-drive car smash almost six years ago which
>> marked her 18-month relapse into alcohol addiction after 22 years of
>> almost continual sobriety.
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>> Even so, the horror, shock and shame of the accident, which resulted
>> in a three-year driving ban and £1,500 fine, was not enough to stop
>> her drinking immediately.
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>> It would be nearly another year before Rosie checked into the Life
>> Works therapeutic community in Surrey.
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>> On May 21 she will celebrate five years of renewed sobriety.
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> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1171929/Im-sorry-story-alcoholism-ashamed-daddy.html
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