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H & I: Carrying the Message to Hospitals and Institutions

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Our primary purpose is to carry the message of recovery to the addict who still suffers.
One way we do this is by holding meetings in hospitals and institutions  for people who are not able to attend outside meetings. Institutions  served may include, but not be limited to, correctional facilities,  sanitariums, detox units, juvenile detention centers, half-way houses  and shelters, either governmental or private. Confinement may be  voluntary or involuntary.

Through working with others in H&Is, members of Cocaine Anonymous  share their experience, strength and hope. Below are some of our  feelings about out H&I experiences.


Remembering Where We Came From
“My first experience with doing H&I work was when I had 90 days  sober and went to speak on a panel at a hospital. I was sure I had  nothing to offer, nothing to say. I sat there listening to the speakers  before me and knew they had said everything I wanted to say. When it was  my turn, I just opened my mouth and let the words pour out. I not only  said what someone in the room needed to hear, but things that I needed  to hear.”

“When the meeting was over, I spent some time talking to the  patients and shared some more of my hope, faith and courage. I left that  meeting feeling a sense of happiness and joy I never felt before. I  still feel that high whenever I speak on a panel, especially to a group  of adolescents.”

“H&I helps me to remember where I came from. It also allows  me to watch the miracle of recovery change others and in doing so, it  allows me to change myself. There are no words that can describe the  feeling inside when someone I first met at an H&I panel gets his/her  first year token.”

“Being a recovering addict, the most dangerous thing for me is to  forget that I am an addict or to think that I can use successfully, but  that is exactly what my addiction tries to get me to believe. Whenever I  go into a detox meeting, I am always reminded of the simple truth of  addiction and its consequences. This helps me to stay sober and to be  grateful for my recovery. It was passed through this method to me, and I  feel blessed to be able to carry on the tradition.”


Gratitude
“Leaving the correctional facility, I feel ecstatic; grateful for  the privilege of being a vehicle of my Higher Power and hopeful that a  seed may have been planted in the mind of even one still-suffering  addict. I share the miracle of my recovery and how Cocaine Anonymous has  changed my life; H&I service work helps me to stay clean and sober  today. This is one of the ways it works for me. Through service in  H&I, my gratitude is multiplied.”

“As a parent, when I leave a youth lockdown facility, I thank God  that it wasn’t one of my children listening to the panel. Most of all, I  feel grateful that I am sober and carrying the message of C.A. to those  who are not so fortunate.”

“My reason for H&I is a selfish one:  to stay clean and  remain grateful for what I have. It offers me a feeling of usefulness to  God and to mankind.”

“The look in the patients’ eyes, the sweat on their foreheads and  on the palms of their hands; they’re not sure if they can stay sober  another day. That makes you feel grateful because when the meeting is  over, you’re going home. That’s the only difference between you and  them.”

“Gratitude …
Doors opening instead of closing,
being able to give it away
the hunger for recovery
The newcomer in a hospital or institution … gives me humility and constant realization of hope.”


Hope
“It is my belief that sharing my experience, strength and hope  through H&Is, I hope that I may in some small way help another  suffering addict see a glimmer of hope and a better way of life. But for  the grace of God … there go I.”

“When I speak on an H&I panel, the feeling that something  special is going on is immediate. The patients’ or inmates’ eyes light  up as I’m telling my story. They’ve been where I’ve been and have felt  what I’ve felt … hopelessness. Now they’re sitting in a hospital or  jail, wondering ‘Where do I go from here?’ As I share the path my  recovery has taken, I see at times the look of hope re-enter their faces  as they think ‘Maybe this will work for me, too.’ I feel great sharing  my hope, faith and courage with the addicts who need it most.” 


A New High from H&I
“What do I get out of H&I? Being affiliated with H&I has  given me a broader outlook on who I am as a person, because I have to  give it away to keep it. Just being able to walk in and out of  institutions is a blessing.”

“During my 26 years that I used on a daily basis, I never  experienced the euphoria that I enjoyed last month. While attending a  C.A. panel two years ago in a center for the Department of Corrections, I  observed a new inmate in complete denial of his disease. During the  next year and a half, I received the gift of watching this man grow  through the Twelve Steps. He was released to a half-way house where C.A.  holds another panel, and both of us participated on that panel. Last  month, he attended the H&I Committee meeting and was placed on a  panel that is going back to the same jail in which we met. That same  night, he picked up his 18-month chip.”

“When people look at me today, laughing and cheerful, many ask me  what I’m up to. My response is consistently, ‘I’m working with  others.'”

If you like what you’ve read here, identify with the feelings being  shared, and want to feel similar feelings, you can attend your local  H&I committee meeting and participate in your own recovery by  helping others.


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North Charleston, SC 29405

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