Avalon Treatment Center MI/CD Eagan, MN 55122

Ey all of you big strong men, uncle Sam needs your help again. Lyric from days gone by. Anyway, Sinamin here. I got out today, outside I mean. Lately I don't do that much. Today I had to, by order of the supreme court, I went to a place called Avalon in Eagan. Another substance abuse treatment center, outpatient. Had to do a CD assessment to appease the powers that have infiltrated my life. Looks like I have a substance abuse problem after all? I'm still trying to get over the shocking news. Not sure why their address is posted all over the place as 1971 Seneca Rd, the place is actually 1230 Eagan Industrial Rd. suite 100. If you click on the link heading on this post it'll direct you to a pdf file on the place. Had my assessment done by a guy named Phil Burton. Pretty nice guy I guess, got his training through Hazelden. Hazelden preaches total abstinence, which means no meds. One of the main reasons I have problems with AA. I'm all for any medication that can keep me from using alcohol or any other crazy self medication i can get my hands on. The big paradox with meds is once you get tagged as an addict it's almost impossible to find a doctor willing to medicate you for anxiety (benzo's). They'll give you SSRI's 'till they're coming out of your ass, but nothing that'll really treat the real problems. I actually had to plead my case in front of the psychiatric board of mental health at the Mayo clinic in Rochester to get a prescription for Klonopin? This just ain't right. Once again I had to defend my use of a benzo this afternoon to another substance abuse counselor, getting rather tired of it. Truth is, there are a lot of addicts out there self medicating (dangerously), with a wide variety of illegal street drugs, risking an unimaginable variety of consequences when all they need is the medical society to pull their heads out of their asses and treat the mental illness issues that haunt us. So what if the medication is addictive, so is alcohol and meth and crack. At least the meds are legal and if they didn't make it so difficult to get them there would be a lot of lives saved, a lot fewer innocent people overcrowding our prisons and a lot less taxpayer's money being wasted on mentally retarded law enforcement personnel. Well, today I was sentenced to three days a week, outpatient treatment, three hours a day for like 20 weeks.