Addiction Response
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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This is to follow my previous letter on addiction. Since my last letter was published by the Times-Union, I have received many blessings in life. I would like to take this opportunity to share the positivity that’s been shown to myself and other fellow addicts.
Among the responses to my outcry were Mrs. Rebecca Kubacki with the Indiana House of Representatives. Mrs. Kubacki has offered to help me obtain materials for recovery meetings. Thanks, Mrs. Kubacki.
Also just as amazing, our jail commander, Lt. Dan Weisenham, has agreed to allow me to facilitate NA and CMA meetings for the entire jail. I am currently holding rotating AA, NA, CMA meetings in K-block with more than half of the population in attendance.
These meetings are based on the principles of the 12 steps, and have helped keep me stay sober on the street 425 days today. These meetings, sponsorship, and faith in a higher power are the most effective way to battle addiction. Recovery is a lifelong process, I will never be recovered, always recovering.
In addiction I am currently writing the curriculum for a 12-step class for those of us that are really excited and happy from the principles we follow. This class will be more of a how to work the steps in your life, what the steps mean to us, and meeting schedules as well as aftercare options will be available for those due to be released. My hopes are that all of this is available to the jail population immediately.
I have also agreed that, upon my release, I would continue to return to the jail and share my experience, strength and hope through facilitation. Recovery has become my passion and by completing a two-year associate’s, with my history, I can make it my career. I believe this is the purpose God has shown me.
Thank you to those who show faith in me, to my mother (Karen), my father (Phil), my son (Dylan) and my fiance (Selina), and her two boys, Alex and Kasson. Without this support system waiting for me, I wouldn’t know the love and partnership you’ve given me.
Please feel free once again to correspond with myself here at the jail if you have literature, ideas, or similar instances to share.
Darren Heinzman
Currently incarcerated in the Kosciusko County Jail
Warsaw[[In-content Ad]]
This is to follow my previous letter on addiction. Since my last letter was published by the Times-Union, I have received many blessings in life. I would like to take this opportunity to share the positivity that’s been shown to myself and other fellow addicts.
Among the responses to my outcry were Mrs. Rebecca Kubacki with the Indiana House of Representatives. Mrs. Kubacki has offered to help me obtain materials for recovery meetings. Thanks, Mrs. Kubacki.
Also just as amazing, our jail commander, Lt. Dan Weisenham, has agreed to allow me to facilitate NA and CMA meetings for the entire jail. I am currently holding rotating AA, NA, CMA meetings in K-block with more than half of the population in attendance.
These meetings are based on the principles of the 12 steps, and have helped keep me stay sober on the street 425 days today. These meetings, sponsorship, and faith in a higher power are the most effective way to battle addiction. Recovery is a lifelong process, I will never be recovered, always recovering.
In addiction I am currently writing the curriculum for a 12-step class for those of us that are really excited and happy from the principles we follow. This class will be more of a how to work the steps in your life, what the steps mean to us, and meeting schedules as well as aftercare options will be available for those due to be released. My hopes are that all of this is available to the jail population immediately.
I have also agreed that, upon my release, I would continue to return to the jail and share my experience, strength and hope through facilitation. Recovery has become my passion and by completing a two-year associate’s, with my history, I can make it my career. I believe this is the purpose God has shown me.
Thank you to those who show faith in me, to my mother (Karen), my father (Phil), my son (Dylan) and my fiance (Selina), and her two boys, Alex and Kasson. Without this support system waiting for me, I wouldn’t know the love and partnership you’ve given me.
Please feel free once again to correspond with myself here at the jail if you have literature, ideas, or similar instances to share.
Darren Heinzman
Currently incarcerated in the Kosciusko County Jail
Warsaw[[In-content Ad]]
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