Drove Lea to Chehalis today to visit her son in rehab at American Behavioral Health Systems. He is doing well after his first month. This was an alternative to a jail or prison
sentence.
Doing 3 to 6 months of rehab is a lot better choice than locking up an
addict for 2 months and then releasing them to probation. Probation for addicts is like sentencing them
to a legal meat grinder that chews up their lives, tax money and opportunity.
Lea brought him some new clothes and cigarettes. This was the first time she bought and gave presents
other than gift cards to her son in years. She had a sense of trepidation and some fear
of rejection over buying clothes for her son.
I am grateful to be of service in helping another family get back
together. I wish my mother had gone to
rehab or at least tried to get sober like Lea is doing. It is a far cry from a perfect world, but
they are both doing their best to change their ways and their lives.
The diversion program was on the front page of our local newspaper here in Vancouver Washington..This city tries to do the same thing with a fraction of the help that you get up in the king county area, Chehalis is not that far from Vancouver, I pray for people here who cannot get to treatment and help, it is a famiy problem, most parents and siblings have to back up the person who is addicted to anything, they really really do for the person to get sober and keep sober or they will be incarcerated and that is horrible, it just exacberates the whole drug and alcohol addiction..The judges here treat the few who can get to treatment differently rather than incarceration they go to drug court and to drug treatment and it seems to help enormously, thank you for helping a family to keep clean and sober..The past is simply the past no one can go back, don't feel badly about your Mother not getting sober, my husband and my family had the same problem their children died of drug and drug related causes, after they left this world, one his dad my father in law died of cancer of the kidney, and my dad is still alive sober and happy..One cannot take responsibility over one's parents really one cannot, my mother only had wine with dinners and little at that a cultural thing from spain, I have never drank and my husband either but siblings many are addicted and unhappy and were incarcerated and did not get treatment, it is sad but one can do only so much!
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