Monday, January 21, 2008
Spy Games - The Club
The Club is a building located within STC territory. Recovery meetings are held all day long, every day of the week. There are many clubs like this one, but chances are that the general community which hosts one of these clubs is unaware it exists. They are not secret clubs, but they treasure anonymity. The Club is an unmarked, two-story building that has three meeting rooms. At any given time during the day, a recovery meeting is in progress. The first meeting of the day begins at 6:30am and the last one normally ends at 9:00pm. STC clients are required to attend certain meetings at this club during the week. These are considered "outside meetings" and STC has absolutely no financial interest or control in the club, yet it is one of the biggest pieces of the STC puzzle.
Clients ride their bikes to meetings at the Club and mix socially with the recovering members. Sponsors are obtained. These sponsors have no affiliation with STC, but the chances of the sponsor knowing about STC, or having once been a client at STC, are 95%. This is the point in the research where STC is shown to be an anomaly. One of the main reasons why STC would be impossible to duplicate is this proximity to the Club and the recovery community that has built up around the club.
In contrast to other treatment facilities, STC clients have a tendency to remain within a fifteen-mile radius of STC and the Club after they have been discharged from STC. This results in a recovery community consisting of countless former STC clients. This is not common. Of course, part of the lure is that Newport Beach is arguably one of the most beautiful places to live in the country. In addition, most of the client's come from outside the state of California. Many clients who had chosen to remain in town after treatment said that they liked the weather in California better than where they previously lived. However, the most common reason given by former STC clients for their decision to stay in the Newport Beach area was the recovery community.
Clients ride their bikes to meetings at the Club and mix socially with the recovering members. Sponsors are obtained. These sponsors have no affiliation with STC, but the chances of the sponsor knowing about STC, or having once been a client at STC, are 95%. This is the point in the research where STC is shown to be an anomaly. One of the main reasons why STC would be impossible to duplicate is this proximity to the Club and the recovery community that has built up around the club.
In contrast to other treatment facilities, STC clients have a tendency to remain within a fifteen-mile radius of STC and the Club after they have been discharged from STC. This results in a recovery community consisting of countless former STC clients. This is not common. Of course, part of the lure is that Newport Beach is arguably one of the most beautiful places to live in the country. In addition, most of the client's come from outside the state of California. Many clients who had chosen to remain in town after treatment said that they liked the weather in California better than where they previously lived. However, the most common reason given by former STC clients for their decision to stay in the Newport Beach area was the recovery community.
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