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Communications of Hossein and Bill

Communications of Hossein and Bill

Dear Hossein,

 

       Just a quick note to you this morning.  I wanted to let you know that I have received communication from Roy Gutman, the Middle East Bureau Chief for McClatchy Newspapers, based in Istanbul.  He would like to write about Congress 60 and the potential of adapting its methods of treatment in other countries.  I have arranged for him to call me today to share my views with him on this.  Hopefully, this will be one more step in our extending the reach of Congress 60 beyond the borders of Iran.  I will let you know if I have further follow-up contact with him.

 

Friends and Brothers Forever,

Bill

 

 

Dear Bill,

 

  I hope you are fine, I am well. And I am doing short term and long term planning. We had several meetings at different cities of Iran lately and they were very welcomed by the officials of those cities. They were talking about the discipline, punctuality, well dressing and good manners of Congress 60 members who are former addicts. The message that an addict can be transformed to a conscientious person is well grasped at those meetings. These are because of the DST method and good long term recovery of Congress 60.

 

Dear friend, you first article were so effective in extending and introducing Congress 60 in Iran and beyond Iran borders. In fact it has opened a great gate which its effects will be seen in future. Your paper has increased the value of Congress 60 in scientific societies. And I am certain that we will reach important milestones after the rest of these papers are published and a new way will emerge for the DST method and not only for addiction treatment but for other medicine branches.

 

Nowadays we are signing an agreement with one of the greatest scientific centers in Iran so they can do “brain MRI” before entering the DST method, during treatment and after completion of the treatment in order to analyze the changes of brain because of the treatment. I am sure some people will carry our work to the future. This vision will happen sooner and better now that we have a legion contributed to the physicians. 

 

Dear Bill, I would like to suggest that if you are agreed, we would like to do a research on sexual relationship status differences between those who are being treated with methadone and those who are being treated with OT and the DST method. Because the sexual relationship is one the most challenging points in addiction treatment. I would be very delighted if you give me the honor of doing this research together, just like the smoking cessation research that we did together.

 

William White legions are so active, last week 10 individuals completed smoking cessation treatment and they received a William White emblem this past Wednesday. Nowadays a smoker can’t have any responsibility at Congress 60. I am joking with my colleagues that nowadays smoking heroin at Congress 60 is easier than smoking a cigarette!   

 

 You mentioned before that “a coalition of addiction and recovery support leaders is preparing a statement on the need to incorporate smoking cessation within American addiction treatment programs”

 

 this is a very wise move, because of the higher rated of deaths caused by smoking comparing to deaths caused by narcotics.

 

If this statement was international I would have signed it as well because Congress 60 welcomes such statements warmly.

 

Today is Thursday and tomorrow our guys will come back from the summer camp, I have news that camp was held well. I couldn’t go there because I was busy but I am sending some photos for you with this letter. Perhaps I have mentioned this before that the land which is used for the camping is about 7000 meters which have been bought for this very purpose.

 

 I hope that dear Alisha is well and Say hello to Miss Rita, write about your health status for me. I hope that you will be healthy and energetic always. My family is well, my son Amin is in charge of summer camping and he is not home, Shani went for a shooting for two days and Ani is studying.

 

One of the effects of your article was that Mr. Roy Gutman contacted you and this made me so delighted, I have received a new email from him as well that I will inform you of it. This contacts and emails makes us happy and we receive a great amount of energy. This is telling us that we are walking the correct path and soon we will pass the borders.

 

(I have attached some photos)

 

Friends and brothers on heaven and earth forever

Hossein

 

 

Dear Hossein,

 

      It is always good to hear from you, and thank you so much for the summer camp photos. 

 

      The visits to Congress 60 by city officials provided living proof of the transformative power of recovery within Congress 60 and vivid testimony of the effectiveness of the methods being used.  My thanks to all those who offered their personal stories to these officials and to all those who demonstrated by their appearance and conduct that recovery is possible and growing due to the work of Congress 60.

 

      I am pleased that our first published article has been so well received in Iran and around the world.  I think this initial paper will set the foundation for all the work that will follow in informing the scientific communities and international policymakers of the wonderful work that is progressing in Congress 60 under your leadership.

 

      I was delighted to be interviewed by Roy Gutman about my views on the methods used by Congress 60.  I tried to share with him that the elements of recovery support could not be viewed in isolation—that the use of OT by the DST method, the vibrant recovery culture, the peer recovery mentorship, the changes in personal identity and worldview, and all the other activities within Congress 60 all worked in combination to create something far more powerful than could be achieved by using any single method in isolation.  The danger in describing the elements of Congress 60 is that one could miss seeing the whole.  I think he was able to grasp that by the end of our conversation.    

 

     The news of your participation in MRI brain research related to the DST method is quite exciting and will be a great complement to MRI studies that are planned here in the U.S. It is important that the neorobiology of addiction and recovery be carefully mapped with documentation of what treatments best promote long-term brain healing.  It is good to know Congress 60 will be at the forefront of this work. 

 

      Let’s discuss your proposal for our next research collaboration later this year.  I have two large projects I am trying to finish that I hope will be completed by the end of the year. 

 

      News that the William White legions remain so active brings me great joy knowing what this will mean to for longevity and quality of life for those involved.  Your joking comment that smoking heroin is more accepted in Congress 60 than smoking a cigarette brought a deep smile to my face.  I hope everyone in Congress 60 who has stopped smoking realizes that they are the vanguard in the world of this effort to make smoking cessation an integral part of addiction recovery.  Their pioneering examples will save countless lives of people in recovery around the world for generations to come. 

 

      My health conditions are stable at the moment and, other than posing travel limitations, do not interfere with my writing or daily life here in Florida.  I turn down all speaking requests, but perhaps my travel limitations serve to keep me thinking and writing more at this stage of my life.  My daily life ia a mix of writing, responding to emails, walking and swimming, reading, and just enjoying time with Rita.  This is a very pleasant time of our lives as we are blessed with reasonably good health and children who are healthy, happy, and productive.  I am pleased to hear that Amin, Shani, and Ani are all doing well and an hoping that your health is doing well also.  We still have important work to do together.

 

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