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Confused about halfway house/aftercare post residential treatment
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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 584034" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>My experience is a lot different than what Nancy described. For one thing, the sober houses here are much more expensive. In Atlanta, good ones run $1800 a month and that does not include food. My difficult child managed to find a much cheaper flop house where unbeknownst to us, she continued to drink, use drugs, and moved on to harder drugs. This was after a 30-day inpatient rehab.</p><p></p><p>This last stay was in a 90-day dual diagnosis treatment center in south Florida. It was worlds away from the first rehab and was very costly. My difficult child was required to get a job while she was still in-patient and is about to be discharged. The Residential Treatment Center (RTC) recommends sober houses from a very short list and my difficult child will be moving into one of them on Friday. It will cost $860 a month which is one of the cheaper ones on the list. She will be allowed to have her car so she can get to her job. I haven't talked to the director yet but I know from the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) that the sober house will require meetings and drug testing while she is there. My difficult child will continue her out-patient care through the residential treatment center 6 - 9 hours a week.</p><p></p><p>There was a guest speaker when we were at the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) for the family therapy weekend. He was a 24-year-old former client who has done great since his stay at the Residential Treatment Center (RTC). He he had been using every drug known to man and has been clean and sober for 2.5 years. While he credits the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) for saving his life, he says the stay at the halfway house for 6 months made it possible for him to continue to stay clean and sober until he was ready to make it on his own. So a good halfway house is critical for success and a bad halfway house can made things worse. </p><p></p><p>So I guess the answer is that there is no one answer. I do know that you have to trust the people that recommend the sober house and that your difficult child will probably not like the ones that they recommend because he will not like the restrictive nature which is exactly what he needs.</p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 584034, member: 1967"] My experience is a lot different than what Nancy described. For one thing, the sober houses here are much more expensive. In Atlanta, good ones run $1800 a month and that does not include food. My difficult child managed to find a much cheaper flop house where unbeknownst to us, she continued to drink, use drugs, and moved on to harder drugs. This was after a 30-day inpatient rehab. This last stay was in a 90-day dual diagnosis treatment center in south Florida. It was worlds away from the first rehab and was very costly. My difficult child was required to get a job while she was still in-patient and is about to be discharged. The Residential Treatment Center (RTC) recommends sober houses from a very short list and my difficult child will be moving into one of them on Friday. It will cost $860 a month which is one of the cheaper ones on the list. She will be allowed to have her car so she can get to her job. I haven't talked to the director yet but I know from the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) that the sober house will require meetings and drug testing while she is there. My difficult child will continue her out-patient care through the residential treatment center 6 - 9 hours a week. There was a guest speaker when we were at the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) for the family therapy weekend. He was a 24-year-old former client who has done great since his stay at the Residential Treatment Center (RTC). He he had been using every drug known to man and has been clean and sober for 2.5 years. While he credits the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) for saving his life, he says the stay at the halfway house for 6 months made it possible for him to continue to stay clean and sober until he was ready to make it on his own. So a good halfway house is critical for success and a bad halfway house can made things worse. So I guess the answer is that there is no one answer. I do know that you have to trust the people that recommend the sober house and that your difficult child will probably not like the ones that they recommend because he will not like the restrictive nature which is exactly what he needs. ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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