Is it right to totally humiliate people on voluntary drink/drive re-hab course?

I am on second day of course and nobody could possibly make me feel any worse than I do already about my offence I am a first time offender and got a nine month ban.My reading was 42mg, I live in the middle of nowhere and almost gave up my job because I was so ashamed. Luckily it was not reported in the papers so I managed to continue.The person running the course said in front of everyone that he had someone on a previous course that knew me, Iwas totally shocked as the person in question has been convicted 3 times and doesnt care who knows.She also works in the same hospital dept as me, I am devastated as everyone will now know. The person running the course is sickeningly patronising and familiar and waves breathalysers at us saying he'll throw us off the course if found to have consumed alchohol. He then made us all in turn divulge very personal information to the room almost jeering and saying 'dont leave anything out,I know all about you, even the road you were on'!
Humiliation will NEVER make anyone change their habits - it will only leave them feeling bitter and angry and when you feel that way you naturally become defensive and less willing to change.
You are doing the right thing being on the course - it's just a shame an idiot is 'driving' it!
Yes hopefully you will not want to repeat this.
Well, on drink driving, I hope you have learned a lesson. On the other matter, the course tutor has broken confidentiality, together with the DTA, date protection act, by discussing you and others where and when it was not essential to the case in hand.

He sounds like a control freak nazi, who probably lives at home with his Mum, or a wife who berates him for haveing a tiny dick, so he takes it out on you guys.

Report him, better still, tape the session, then report him.
I hope you're learning your lesson - you wouldn't want to go through this again, would you?

I think that's the point of his technique.

You should feel grateful you're only experiencing some humiliation, and nothing worse - like incarceration.
i hate drunk drivers as well ...serves you right
You did wrong and you should feel humiliated and ashamed. Driving under the influence kills tens of thousands or more innocent people every year world wide.

Your insistance on focusing on your own feelings of shame and humiliation indicates a self-centeredness that is indicative of a person with an addictive tendancy.

Go to www.aa.org and start reading the Big Book of Alchoholics Anonymous once you have read that you will understand.
Just hang on to the fact that you'll never come across this odious person again once all this is over. Sometimes you feel that you are alone in being picked on, but quite frankly the other people are sufferring their own humiliation and are not going to take too much notice of yours. It's rather like school: a deeply humiliating episode in class where you feel you've made an utter fool of yourself is quickly forgotten by everyone else. If this person is guilty of breach of trust (i.e. talking about you to people outside the course) then you should complain -- after it's all over. By the way, do you have to give these deeply personal details or could you skate over them in some way -- in other words be economical with the truth -- if this person is asking things which are inappropriate? Keep going -- don't let this nasty individual get you down.
Maybe you shouldn't drink and drive
well, if u really actually KNEW how to drive under the influence, then we wouldnt have this problem, now would we?
well dont drink and drive, count yourself lucky, the same crime in sweden carries an instant lifetime ban, i think that should be the case in the uk
Its not all about YOU !

Get over it.

Its about saving lives, if it works great !
Whats a bit of humiliation when you were caught bang to rights?

You admit the offence on here...whats your problem?

The methods utilised on these courses are there to make you sit up and take responsibility for your selfish actions. Ultimately you have been selfish, and lucky!...Selfish by drinking and driving and not giving a damn about anyone else on the roads be it another driver or a pedestrian. Lucky, that you didn't kill or seriously maim someone who got in your path.

You say you work in an hospital, I suggest you visit A&E and a critical care unit...have a look at the aftermath of people who drink and drive!

Take your medicine like a man...you and no one else is to blame for your situation!
what matters is whether you stop alcoholism at the end of it all.if that objective is met then you will realise that it was all meant for your good only .
please do remember to thank those who take the pain to turn the wheel for you and your long and happy life
oh, isnt it a f***ing shame for you! well when youve been out to an accident caused by a drunk driver and seen some innocent child spread all over the road by some p***ed up idiot, and then had to go and tell the parents their child is dead, or when youve lost somebody as a result of some selfish b*****d getting behind the wheel plastered because theyre too tight to pay for a taxi or too selfish to wait for a lift or walk home then youll know what suffering is. If I had my way you wouldnt be on a voluntary rehab course, youd be banged up in jail on an attempted murder charge, and facing a lifetime driving ban when you get out. Its this soft as shi te attitude that causes people like you to get behind the wheel drunk in the first place


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Sounds pretty tame to me, your lucky you didn't kill anyone you should never be allowed to drive again. You should have to walk around with a vest on identifying you as a drunk driver. Your lucky to still be employed by a hospital, they will find out sooner or later, if you are in any job that requires a license that needs re-newed they will check your record. Drunk drivers have cost my family big time you don't belong on the road and should not get a second chance dead people killed by drunk drivers don't get one. You are petty for feeling a little humiliation thank God you didn't kill anyone and think before you act.
Was it voluntary or was this part of your conviction. I dont agree with how this person is delivering this course but consider this.. what if there had been another driver on that country lane and there was an accident how would you have felt then, or someone walking home as there was no transport. Think how lucky you are not to be on a higher charge. So how long is the course a week. So you have to suffer this for 7 days some people deal with worse for the rest of their life. Learn from it..
He is doing his job. first time offender or first time caught. your not innocent so dont try to be innocent. good you are feeling guilty but there has been a lot of first time offenders comment vehicular man slaughter. just think about it you could have killed a childs mother or even a child so yeah i think he should be doin exactly what he is doing.