Families & Friends Of Addicts Support Group

i have definitely heard of it and i think it is a great idea. it shows commitment. the addict could probably use every day for 90 days, so to seriously try to get clean, a meeting a day is not unreasonable. it seems to have worked for your husband and i am so proud of him for doing it. good for you both!

I don't think the 90 meeting in 90 days has anything to do with it, my Ah did the 90/90 a couple of times after each rehab. It all depends on the person and how bad they want to stay clean. Every rehab that my AH went to was 12 step and said 90 meeting in 90 days. If 12 steps works for you then you stay clean but only about 5% stay clean in 12 steps.
I'm glad for you your husband is still clean, plus it helps alot on the sponser they pick.

I'm happy that the 90 in 90 worked for your husband! :)
My stbx was told he needed to do it, but he basically laughed at it...I think it's all up to the individual, if they are truly ready to quit using.

If it worked for him that is awesome. I have my girls do at least 4 meetings a week. And one that they make a home group and commitment so they get into the fellowship. I think he was ready and how wonderful./

I'm did my 90/90 and I can honestly say it was the beginning to 18 years drug free!! If you can do the 90 you can make the changes necessary to stay clean!

90 meetings in 90 days works - or I should say it works if you work it. The 12 step program whether AA or NA is only going to work for the newly recovering addict - if the want it to work and they work the program. When an addict finally has hit bottom, or gets sick and tired of being sick and tired, and get themselves into a rehab, they seem to think in 28-30 they will come out cured, they've learned everything in those 28-30 days, they don't need AA or Na, don't want to work the 12 step program, and can't stand to hear another AA or NA story from another recovering addict, because they feel they know all and have conquered their addiction - now life will be good all the time - how wrong that is. I by the grace of God and the 12 step program, have been in recovery for 22 years. I didn't do the rehab, my dad had been in the program for 15 years at the time I finally hit my bottom, took me to my first Closed AA meeting, I did the 90/90, at times I hated going, didn't want to hear anymore, but I kept going, and slowly started talking, then chairing meetings, did quite a few speaker meetings at big rehabs with sometimes 100-150 people there - scared to death to talk, but I knew I had to share, pass on the gift that I was given to get clean and sober and wanted more than anything in the world to stay clean and sober first for myself, and then for my son who was 1 1/2 at the time. I remember something my step-mother told me when I was on the pitty-pot about 3 months into my recovery, carrying on about this and that - mainly about how my husband had just gone into rehab and he was going to miss our son's 2nd birthday - she said - honey you and jon have just given aaron the greatest gift in the world - you are clean and sober, working the program - and there could be no greater gift you could give him - 22 years later that still comes to mind every now and then - and how right she was. I was given the gift of recovery, my son is 24 now, and he has also been given the gift of recovery for 2 years - he is a recovering heroin addict - I gave him the gift of me being clean and sober for 22 years, and he gave me the greatest gift in the world of him getting clean and sober. Remember "It works if you work it". Congrats to your husband

Thanks y'all, that was some good info. bcollie.. I think you hit the nail on the head.... he too was so sick of going at times, but he did. And it's a good point about the commitment, and a good point about the tendancy for the addict to get complacent after the 28 day stay.