Aint sobriety grand! As my sponsor used to say ;-)

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Call me crazy, 'old school' thinking but it is my belief that sobriety should be rewarded rather than punishment heaped upon punishment. Now, I am not talking about giving out little gold stars above for having discovered nothing but decaf and not drinking over it.

That being said I believe you all in sobriety have earned a 24 carat gold star for staying sober for however many years they decide is a Herculean task on your end. I frequent the recovery page since I am in recovery; I got clean and sober in '89. I was a train-wreck and I knew it so I did not take on any major responsibilities, I 'hid' in a small town and was never arrested. Felt guilt on that as the bullet I dodged hit another who likely had a lower BAC that what I rolled out of bed with in the morning.

I received a lot of warm-fuzzies' from my co-workers, my boss, I had acquaintances tell me they now longer feared me as they did from the expression I had on my face. Onto topic at hand: a long story short I have read the trials and tribulations you all are going through what sounds like the '7th circle of Hell'. You are in the midst of 'the War on Drugs' part two.

addition to the legal ramifications it would seem you have punishments from the BRN which are just so out of proportion to the 'crime'. No one should have to live in the state of fear that they'd used real Vanilla, mouthwash, aftershave et cetera I also do not agree with heaping one financial hardship after another onto nurses.

And the same staff right up to the psychiatrists are the ones who are being paid for by the BRN? No conflict of interest there...

It is a shame that AA is used and thought of as punishment. It goes against every belief system we have to force AA upon anything upon on anyone; it just makes people resent AA for a philosophy we do not stand for.

Now lest I be misunderstood I do not believe nurses should expect no negative consequences if they walked to worked sloshed on ETOH, 'shared' morphine or had a lapse in judgement and drove; I just do not think they deserve what is heaped upon them for years. There was a higher-up MADD member who stepped down stating one DUI should not ruin someones' entire life; I agree with her.

And she was referring to the ramifications re legal fall-out of a DUI; the legal fallout appears to be a walk in the park compared to the BRN consequences.

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Well said Sobre. Well said. My resentment of AA has zero to do with AA itself. Its not for me but those rooms have a ton of good folks in them trying to help each other ot of the goodness of their hearts. Now the blackhearted "professionals" that's a whole different tune.

I actually think it was the Chairmen of MADD that said that. The legal costs of my DUI was about $6000 and I deserved it. I broke the law and owed society a debt. I paid it. The costs of PNAP are many multiples of that. I lost $40K in wages last year. The money is not the worst part. This program has changed me. I'm cynical and bitter. When I self reported I honestly thought these people would try to help me. Ive seen no evidence of that hope coming true. I live in a state of anxiety and questioning myself constantly. Yours is a program of rebirth and rebuilding. Ours is a program of retribution and financial fleecing whose effects will last a lifetime

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