ABSTRACT
After a week in detox and twenty-eight days in rehab, I was clean and sober and ready to go home. However the staff at the rehab did not agree. My insurance had run out and the twenty-eight-day program was completed, but the staff told me I was not leaving until I had some structured place to go. The staff was going to let me stay free of charge until a place they deemed safe was available for me. I thought I’d just go to my parents’ house. They would let me stay there until I could move in with some friends or find a place of my own. No matter that my father was an alcoholic, I had no decent friends, and no job or money. The staff told me I’d be drunk if I did that, and if I drank again I would dead by the time I was twenty-five.
