I am a 20 year old sailor in SARP continuing care. I self referred for alcohol use back in November, I’ve been sober since then.

I had an appointment in January to see a SARP counselor, at which point I was told when I returned that if I was still sober in 3 months I would be disenrolled and get to go back to normal.

I returned three months later for my follow-up, still sober, it was only then that I was told I was supposed to be in “Continuing Care” for those months. My DAPA never told me, nor did the counselor I saw initially. I was given a letter for my CO and sent to SARP at my base to start the program.

Now I have been in continuing care since March, I have been sober since November, not drinking (for me) has been easy as hell. Haven’t struggled or had cravings or any of that stuff, I had only wanted some assistance back in November.

I turn 21 soon, and want to be able to go to bars and hang out with buddies without having the looming threat of “treatment failure” over my head if I want a beer or something while hanging out.

The sobriety hasn’t been a problem, but the lack of control, and their insistence that I need their help despite months of sobriety before I ever joined the program has left me disillusioned with all of it. And none of my concerns have been taken seriously.

I was wondering if there is a way for me to get out of the program, and make a report against the local program, since the whole “Continuing Care” thing after I’d already been sober for months feels like they are covering their own asses that they didn’t enroll me sooner, or that they fucked up somewhere and don’t want big navy to know.