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Son is homeless, jobless, penniless, but in treatment
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<blockquote data-quote="Carol55" data-source="post: 714102" data-attributes="member: 22003"><p>Thank you everyone! We are going to start going to Al-a-non meetings to help us stay strong on this journey. At our meeting at the treatment center tonight, there was consensus that banning him from our home and/or blocking his phone calls would not be helpful in the least at this point. However, he will not be spending the nights here. He has been here tonight since the meeting got over. He is fun to be around when he's in recovery - chatty, funny, philosophical. Very likable when he's not using. But he will be leaving in a few minutes and will have to find a place to sleep. He's not resentful, which makes things easier on us.</p><p>This journey, as long as he's in treatment, has to be better than the most recent one we've been on for the last 2 years.</p><p></p><p>As far as him not having a choice in treatment: he had a lawyer who would have contested the commitment on his behalf, had he wished her to. His commitment wasn't a done deal until he declined to challenge it.</p><p></p><p>Or, if the reference was to him choosing the longer daily treatment time, he had a choice in that as well. This particular center has a level (9:00 - 3:00 daily) that falls in-between inpatient and intensive outpatient treatment (8:00 - 4:00 daily). The option presented to him was the lesser treatment of 9:00 - 3:00. Once he realized there was a longer daily program, he requested that he be placed in the longer one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Carol55, post: 714102, member: 22003"] Thank you everyone! We are going to start going to Al-a-non meetings to help us stay strong on this journey. At our meeting at the treatment center tonight, there was consensus that banning him from our home and/or blocking his phone calls would not be helpful in the least at this point. However, he will not be spending the nights here. He has been here tonight since the meeting got over. He is fun to be around when he's in recovery - chatty, funny, philosophical. Very likable when he's not using. But he will be leaving in a few minutes and will have to find a place to sleep. He's not resentful, which makes things easier on us. This journey, as long as he's in treatment, has to be better than the most recent one we've been on for the last 2 years. As far as him not having a choice in treatment: he had a lawyer who would have contested the commitment on his behalf, had he wished her to. His commitment wasn't a done deal until he declined to challenge it. Or, if the reference was to him choosing the longer daily treatment time, he had a choice in that as well. This particular center has a level (9:00 - 3:00 daily) that falls in-between inpatient and intensive outpatient treatment (8:00 - 4:00 daily). The option presented to him was the lesser treatment of 9:00 - 3:00. Once he realized there was a longer daily program, he requested that he be placed in the longer one. [/QUOTE]
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