Posted: April 25th, 2025

substance abuse meeting

 experience after attending your meetings. 

• How does Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or Narcotics Anonymous (NA) benefit the client? Include personal reflections after hearing of stories or experiences from your meeting attendance. 
• How does Al-Anon/Addiction Recovery for Families benefit the family?
• Describe some similarities and differences seen between the two meetings you attended.
• Explain the importance of “90 meetings in 90 days”. 
• How do you feel the clients seen during your meeting times seemed to be handling their recovery?
• Analyze the Social Determinants of Health (SDH), for example, the hardship that meetings present if the client is homeless and lacks transportation – how will the client get to meetings? How will the client be supported in his/her recovery journey?
• You will also list/include three local resources in Laurel, MD  and a short detail of the services that the resource offers for a client facing housing insecurity/homelessness while trying to overcome substance abuse disorder recovery. (These resources/list is not part of your 2 page reflection.

  It Is important to know local resources so you can refer clients to them when working in the community as a bedside clinician.