Jail for young adults
A reader asks about young adults who get into trouble and go to jail, and how not to let that screw up the rest of their lives?
One key to not letting jail screw up the rest of a life is to explain and emphasize that the person can never, ever drink or use other drugs again. To increase the odds of this, regular testing is never a bad thing.
Early in my 12 years of research and writing on alcoholism I was particularly struck by two comments in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. One was a lifer explaining he was in the pen because whiskey made him feel like he was God. Another said, if AA could be in every ...
