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Recovery
is not a horizon-to-horizon superhighway.
There are lots of tricky detours.
Lots of ruts; lots of bumps. Lots
of flat tires-and flat moods. Lots
of running out of gas. The good thing
is that you don't have to ride it
in a covered wagon. And you don't
have to pioneer it. Hundreds of thousands
of once "hopeless drunks"
and "depraved addicts" have
followed this road before you. Instead
of dying of cancer or cirrhosis of
the liver or of a stroke, they've
survived to tell their tales - to
share with you the lessons of their
setbacks and the celebrating of their
successes.
These are the goals of recovery, and
of SouthCoast's program. You can't
achieve them by waving a magic wand,
by popping a magic pill, or even by
being in our program for a few months,
you've got to want to do new things
with your life. If you're accustomed
to immediate gratification, the slow
process of recovery may at first be
difficult to comprehend. But if you
think about it you will remember that
you didn't get into trouble with alcohol
and/or drugs overnight. And you can't
put the pieces of your life back together
between sundown and sunup either.
Step by step, SouthCoast Recovery
will guide you through the rocky route
to recovery, with each section of
the program taking you a giant step
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