DUI-Metropolitan Services provides these services in English, Spanish, and Polish, and have flexible schedule of classes.
DUI offenders became eligible for this level of risk if he/she has:
The offender has:
1. symptoms of substance dependence (regardless of driving record); and/or 2. within the 10 year period prior to the date of the most current (third or subsequent) arrest, any combination of two prior convictions or court ordered supervisions for DUI, or prior statutory summary suspensions, or prior reckless driving convictions reduced from DUI, resulting from separate incidents.
What is Recovery? Recovery is considered to continue throughout one's life. Recovery from addiction is a change in lifestyle that includes maintaining abstinence as well as involving oneself in healthy relationships; getting good nutrition, rest, and exercise; and working to resolve one's personal problems with the goal of attaining a satisfying, fulfilling life. Having established this kind of lifestyle, the patient must now continue to lead it. In this model, recovery is a lifelong process.
Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse
Getting an addicted person to stop abusing drugs is just one part of a long and complex recovery process. When people enter treatment, addiction has often taken over their lives. The compulsion to get drugs, take drugs, and experience the effects of drugs has dominated their every waking moment, and drug abuse has taken the place of all the things they used to enjoy doing. It has disrupted how they function in their family lives, at work, and in the community, and has made them more likely to suffer from other serious illnesses. Because addiction can affect so many aspects of a person's life, treatment must address the needs of the whole person to be successful. This is why the best programs incorporate a variety of rehabilitative services into their comprehensive treatment regimens. Treatment counselors select from a menu of services for meeting the individual medical, psychological, social, vocational, and legal needs of their patients to foster their recovery from addiction.
