Is this the detox unit connected to his first inpatient program? If so that's good, maybe they will take him back there instead of the sober house, which I don't think he is ready for. From what I have experienced with difficult child, most everyone who comes into the sober house without coming from an inpatient program fails. They stay for a week or two but go back out. They are not detoxed. Actual detox only lasts five days at the most, but your body is not detoxed. It just means the drug/alcohol is out of the body, but you are still suffereing the effects of not having it. You crave it, you get nervous without it, you look for any opportunity to get it. The detox units around here do nothing more than keep you comfortable until the drug is out of your system. They do not address any emotional issues. You are in a hospital bed until they think you are stable enough to leave. It seems like his best chance is to have the very controlled atmosphere of the rehab program help get him over these cravings before he is out in a sober house where he can have too much freedom. Unless the sober home was very restrictive and he had no freedom, no cell phone, no ability to even leave the house until after the first three months.
I may be wrong and I hope I am but I am skeptical that he is just doing pot and spice. From experience I found out much after the fact that everytime difficult child told me she was just doing such-and-such, it was far more. I just find it hard to believe that he was willing to be put on the street for pot alone. But I am very jaded and suspicious when it comes to difficult child so that affects the way I think.
Nancy
