Is it standard practice to mix women and men in treatment programs?
From my experience, yes but with a HUGE caveat, you're pretty much told any overt displays of romance or wooing could be considered grounds for dismissal.
When I was at the Donwoods there was a "dancer" there that showed up in hotpants, tube top, dancer heels and a bag of lingerie, that was her ENTIRE worldly possessions. Staff bought clothes that were more appropriate given the situation. She wore them begrudgingly and continued to flirt and taunt. She had a meeting a couple days later and walked out of the facility.
Her parents lived somewhere in the Bridlepath neighbourhood, or so she said, I didn't doubt it as someone older visited her driving a Mercedes Benz AMG.
P.S. MY experience I think was vastly different from most of the people in my group except 2 others, a doctor From Newfoundland who lost his wife to cancer and fell into the bottle and an Air Canada Stewardess that lost custody of her children in a divorce.
The MAJORITY were there by force, not self admitted like myself, they were ANGRY, they were deceptive, they hung out in cliques of substance choice, mostly recalling great times while being wasted. There was virtually no acknowledgement that their past use had obviously
screwed up their lives and burned bridges with family/friends.
Based on what I've seen so far of Ford since entering Greenestone is a guy that ran away from his problems but hasn't even thought about changing.