Reached out to Hazelden publishing tonight in the hopes a bridge between myself and the DRA World Central Office can be established. I have asked them to pass my details along to one of the co-authors of the books that have provided the framework for dual diagnosis recovery.
Here is an excerpt of the email I sent to Hazelden today which will be forwarded to the author I am hoping to get in contact with:
I am an American expat living in The Netherlands and there are no English-speaking depression/mental illness therapy groups out here. I have run the gamut from doctors, psychologists, institutions to therapists asking where to find dual recovery support groups in English but there are none.
I would like to start a chapter of DRA (Dual Recovery Anonynmous) for the English speaking expats in this country. I have turned to the DRA World Central Office website (http://www.draonline.org/index.html) and have attempted to contact their office by both telephone and email but neither avenues were successful. All contents of the DRA website were copyrighted until 2009 which leads me to believe that there is not an active DRA office at the moment and no webmaster bulding or maintaining the website.
The reason I have asked a representitive of Hazelden to contact you on my behalf is because the DRA approved-literature includes two of the books you have co-authored with Tim Hamilton. I figured it would be a long shot but wanted to know if you have had any contact with DRA World office or can point me in the right direction so I can start a meeting as soon as possible.
Every day we are one step closer to starting the first English DRA meeting in The Netherlands. As soon as I hear back from the author and publisher, an update will be posted.
No comments:
Post a Comment