My frick up cousin wants to meet my brother and I for golf while he is in town for thanksgiving. He was never that fun of a drug addict, just oxy and Xanax that he managed to hide from everyone but me for years. He stole from everyone. Would pop Xanax at the bar and start fights. Regularly bartarded at weddings and family events, his parents were too hammered to notice or care.
His wife, a sweetheart, forced him to go to rehab after he nodded off while watching their new born.
Now he is all spiritual. California sober, blames booze for all his frick ups when it was really Xanax. still eats shrooms at phish shows all the time. He is also pretty loaded and hardly has to work, once his parents die he won't have to. One of his biggest gripes with me is that I flushed $500 worth of oxy down the potty the day of his wedding day. I had just buried a close friend that OD'ed and saw him crushing a pill in the bathroom. . Despite being sober Now, he still brings it up.
Anyway, he texted us and requested we don't drink on the course. I told him not to come if he was going to be cute twink and it's not our fault that he never listened to us. This is our day to get away from work and kids, if he doesn't want to drink that's great but I don't want to hear his new age hippie bull shit for 4 hours
Now i am getting calls from my aunt (massive boozer) about it. How they are uncomfortable coming to our thanksgiving cause wine will be served.
Thankfully his wife is on our side and said he regularly goes out to concerts where everyone is drinking and is fine. His parents after years of neglect, blame my brother and I for fricking him up,
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Modern rehab follows the 100 year old AA/NA doctrine that the only possible "cure" to addiction is brainwashing yourself into believing you have a permanent curse and must keep yourself accountable with a Freemason inspired gay little secret club. There could be progress on exploring medical treatment (like naltrexone) but most degenerates can only be trusted with the gay little secret club even if it has a 90% failure rate and a 10% chance of permanently forcing you to be an butthole for the rest of your life.
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It also has to do with it being a free place to dump these people as their insurance and resources run out. The psychiatric industrial complex has its own obscene amount of problems, but the barrier to becoming a psychologist or starting a medical facility is at least higher than spinning up a basement AA/NA meeting that still can sign your court order slips. Everyone can pass the buck on every societal problem child all the way down to a 12 step dance with more problem children.
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