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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRich Urban Mom Addicts Get Sobriety Coaches; Poor Moms Get Jail
http://www.alternet.org/economy/rich-urban-mom-addicts-get-sobriety-coaches-poor-moms-get-jailSobriety coaches rake in big bucks to keep 1 percenters off their substance of choice. A-listers are so busy, after all, and treatment centers are both time-consuming and detrimental to privacy. Even when the wealthy do benefit from these centers, their newfound sobriety often doesnt outlast the first weekend home alone.
Enter one of the most lucrative jobs in the therapy business.
If youre a celebrity like Lindsay Lohan, a trust-fund baby, or perhaps a Wall Streeter with a problem, your sobriety coach will accompany you to social events, sometimes posing as a yoga teacher or life coach, to keep you from popping a pill or snorting a line. She will pry the drink out of your fingers at weddings and polo matches. She will even move into your house to keep you from falling off the wagon.
A recent report in the New York Times, Mothers Find a Helping Hand in Sobriety Coaches, profiled wealthy Manhattan moms addicted to prescription painkillers and cocaine who finally got clean with the help of a paid personal sobriety trainer.
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Rich Urban Mom Addicts Get Sobriety Coaches; Poor Moms Get Jail (Original Post)
xchrom
Jul 2014
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JVS
(61,935 posts)1. Any job openings for a sobriety human shield?
Someone who takes your drugs before you can.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)2. ooooh...i want that job! nt
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)3. As I posted in another thread on this subject...
the war on drugs and the war on the poor is a lousy combination.
badtoworse
(5,957 posts)4. Rich people can afford lots of things the poor can't.
What else is new?