The Gulf Coast Program Does Things Differently

Gulf Coast clients are not considered or treated as “patients” but as “students” who are learning to regain control of their lives.  Gulf Coast students do not enroll to recover from an “illness;” they enroll to learn something that they don’t already know.

There is no such thing as a “victim” in the Gulf Coast program way of thinking. Even if life has dealt one a bad hand of cards, the road out is through personal recognition of responsibility for one’s own condition.

Gulf Coast staff prepare graduating students with “re-entry” programs to follow as they re-start their lives on a new foot. But the full Gulf Coast program is intended to produce graduates who can stand on their own feet and live drug-free, ethical lives thereafter. Gulf Coast graduates do not go to weekly meetings for months after completion, nor do they describe themselves as “recovering.”

Students who have graduated from the Gulf Coast program have recovered. They have obtained a new orientation in life. The premise of the Gulf Coast model is that a former addict can achieve a new life.

Once well, if graduates use the tools they have practiced and learned to use, the Gulf Coast graduate can stay well. This is not theoretical. There are three decades of graduates who will swear by it.

The Gulf Coast program averages from two to four months to complete, depending entirely upon individuals and their ability to fully understand each one of the program’s steps. “It takes as long as it takes.” The program’s students are considered to be going “back to school,” this time to get real tools for real life.

Gulf Coast Program Graduates Are Individuals

• who have completed the Gulf Coast program;who know they are, in fact, capable of living a drug-free life thereafter.
• who have improved their ability to learn and thus can accept new ideas on how to change life for the better.
• who have personally absorbed the fundamentals of ethics and morality well enough that they can be productive and contributive to society and will have no further troubles with the justice system.
• who know how to solve the problems of life in a rational manner to the best of their ability, without the use of mind-altering drugs.

Each Gulf Coast program graduate is expected, no matter the severity of their earlier life experience, to achieve and to live a stably drug-free, ethical life, one for one.

There is no such thing as a “victim” in the Gulf Coast program way of thinking. Even if life has dealt one a bad hand of cards, the road out is through personal recognition of responsibility for one’s own condition.