A Missed Opportunity for Alcohol Rehab in Arizona

Back when I was going to high school, I had a friend who was a few years younger than I was and really didn’t care about where his life took him. Now, it may seem simple to say that a teenager doesn’t have direction, but this friend only cared about getting high and getting drunk. The signs were all there in junior high when he was breaking into his father’s liquor cabinet to sneak alcohol and when he knew all the drug dealers in high school before he even attended his first day. Unfortunately, at the time I was more interested in keeping him as a friend than trying to help him curb his temptations. If his parents had known at the time how bad his addictions were at the time, they might have been able to place him in a treatment center and gotten some real help for him.

By the time he was in high school, he was a full alcoholic, seldom going more than a day without drinking something, and the drug abuse wasn’t getting any better. It wasn’t before the end of his first year when he started to steal from neighbors in an attempt to pay for more expensive drugs and not even two years before he dropped out of high school all together. At this point, he had been picked up a number of times by the police, sent to juvenile hall and was ordered to enter drug and alcohol rehab centers in Arizona on multiple occasions. After this, things started to fall apart between us, his family had to move due to work and he was sent to live with his grandparents in Texas where he was placed in another alcohol rehab program. Things seemed to go well for him, until he came back to Arizona for a visit, fell in with the old crowd and landed back in jail. The only option for him was to move to the state his parents lived in, under a house arrest type of ruling, for a minimum of 5 years and once again enter a treatment center.

Had his parents known about Narconon Vista Bay at the time, there is a possibility that my friend could have gotten the help he needed. It was almost as if rehab centers had become a drug, alcohol rehab became his new addiction. It might have helped to have broken the cycle of repetitive rehabilitation for rehab’s sake and moved him into a facility that would have focused on working with him until reached a truly clean place in his life. At this point, I’m not sure what he’s done with his life, but there’s a good chance he’s been in and out of the alcohol rehab program circles in his current state, and still hasn’t changed any of his habits.

Additional Resources:

Alcoholism in the Home

Teens and Alcohol