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Question by CAITLYNN C: How can alcohol rehab help my brother?
It just seems like a way of extorting money from us. Can’t he get well all on his own?

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Answer by anya w
Alcohol rehab is not a way of extorting money from people like you. They ask for fees simply because money is needed to make the program effective. Where else would they get the funds to better their facilities? How else are they going to pay for the medicines?

The fact that your brother is still an alcoholic right now means that he can’t do it on his own. He needs help, and that’s what he’s going to get inside an alcohol rehab. Being there would mean that he would have no supply of alcohol, and less temptation. Therapists, doctors, and healthcare providers would be taking care of him. These are the people who are very adept at handling cases like your brother’s. No doubt that they know what to do and how to deal with him. He needs attention, counseling, therapy and medication, four things that he can get inside an alcohol rehab.

I’m sure your brother will be ok. He needs your support when he goes out of rehab. You have to help him so that he won’t turn to alcohol again. Good luck and I hope he gets well soon enough.

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Question by candelaria lc: My brother is in Pocatello, Idaho, and he needs to find an alcohol rehab. How do I help him?
My brother’s really addicted to alcohol, and he needs my help in finding an alcohol rehab for himself. How do I do this, as I am many miles away from him?

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Mental Health
421 Memorial Dr
Pocatello, ID 83201
(208) 236-6000
(208) 234-7900

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Me and my brother have always been close and together all the time. My mom and my dad divorced when we were little and then when I was 14 and brother was 10 we moved with my mom to united states. She got married and we lived with step-dad for two years. Then, she divorced him and moved to another city and she has been single ever since. It hasn’t been easy on her. She worked non-stop. I was always around my brother. I always gave him what my mom couldn’t- my time, listened to him, supported him emotionally and guided him. I was non-judgmental and best friend. At the time I was 21 in college and he was 17 when he started playing poker on the computer excessively. My mom would always work and made sure we had food, but that was all. She always wanted thing her way and controlled us. We could never be ourselves around her. Me and my brother could talk to each other without barriers. Then, I met someone special and we fell in love. My mom disapproved of him and kicked me out of the house. I have been living with my boyfriend for a year now. He is the love of my love and I am extremely happy.A month ago my brother graduated from high school and he became even more distant from my mom. She would only see him in the morning when he would go back. She forced him to go to college in another city where they offered him a scholarship and he refused. She kicked him out of the house and now from a smart kid, captain of a soccer team he turned into a gambler, hanging out with unmotivated friends, working a low paid job and in danger all the time. He gave up his scholarship, soccer and college. I know him so well and I am just shocked to see him like this. Some say it is lack of a father figure that caused that, others say it is my fault because we were so close and he felt like he had a family to talk to and that me leaving so suddenly completely shut him down. His best friend moved to another state. A girl he was seeing dumbed him for her ex. His sister he loves so much left so sudden. His mom kicked him out. His dad is all the way in another country. I feel terribly sad … What do yall think is the strongest trigger for his behavior? At this point,how can we get him out of his bad environment and motivate him to go to college? How can we stop his dangerous poker addiction? PLz anyone help! I need professional opinions

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Ok I’m 14 and have been going out with my first Boyfriend, who is also 14, since about March 2008. I’m Hispanic and he’s African American. I love him VERY much. We always talk on the phone ’till 1am even on school days. He has always been very quiet and looks very depressed sometimes. I always ask if he’s alright, and he always says ‘yea’, so I never really thought anything of it. But one night while talking on the phone with me, he just opened up to me that his Older Brother, Mom, and Dad do drugs. I was so shocked that I began tearing up, I tried to be strong but I could hear his quiver and then he began to cry and so I did the only thing I could think of; and cried on the phone with him. Every time I tried to calm down, more tears would come. We cried there for a good 20 minutes and in the middle of crying he told me that he wouldn’t know what to do without me and that he loved me and I told him the same. Once we finally calmed down he told me to promise never to tell anyone at all what he told me, and I did. But now I need help, I keep telling him to tell someone so they can help but he says he’s scared what will happen to them. I really don’t want to bring it up because I’m scared of seeing him like that again. I’ve been trying to go on the internet and search about going to rehab vs. going to jail but I still kind of confused on what the rules in Georgia are like for drug addicts. If anyone has any help to offer, PLEASE tell me. And Thank You for taking the time to read this.
I’m sorry, I know I must sound really stupid and overreacting. But this is the first time that anything like this (involving drugs) has happened before and I was tired of holding it in. So I’ll try to calm down a bit. Oh, and Thank You to everyone who answered back! They are helping me see how retarded I sounded and calmed me down so I can figure all this out. THANKS AGAIN!!

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My family seems to be going nuts lately, not only is sister issues but yesterday my freshly divorced brother with kids, calls me up after not hearing from him for about 2 months. Starts conversation with don’t tell anyone! He told me he has been snorting heroin and went through three days of withdrawal trying to quit. I was devastated but happy he had stopped. I get a call last night that says I am so sorry but I had to do it again, I can’t handle it. His wife and me knew each other before they were married and she has no idea! (heck no one did) I just thought he was taking a time out and acting wild, going out every night and drinking and stuff due to divorce. I keep ending up with these moral questions of do not tell. I ask him to go to rehab, he says he can’t risk ex wife finding out. Cause he is afraid she won’t let him around the kids. Yet I am thinking does he need to be around the kids anyway with this problem. I really don’t know a lot about this addiction. Or for that matter anyone who has been through this. Can anyone shed light on this for me. If I keep the secret am I enabling him? If I tell I am afraid he has no one to go to for help. It makes sense now why he owes everybody money including me. His ex wife is tough and do you think I should just keep my mouth shut and let her find out for herself? Wow this is gut wrenching.

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I’m 23 & have been living on my own and supporting myself since I was 17 years old & I’m doing pretty well.
My mother has always been an extremely abusive alcoholic and when I was a minor she severly physically, mentally, and emotionally abused me. I have a 9 year old half-brother who lives with her(neither of our fathers are in the picture).She doesnt physically abuse him but she neglects him and emotionally abuses him. She is drunk since the early morning sometimes and he is terribly afriad of her and wants to live with me.However, she has a nice home,a car, & makes sure he always has food and clothes.Its more about the fear and lonliness she makes him feel. I want to try to take her to family court to get custody but do I have a case here?The home he lives in is fit and she is able to hide her alcoholism very well and not drink for days at a time, sometimes even weeks.But it always comes back worse then ever. Would I be able to prove she is unfit? Anyone that knows law,please help.

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I always thought he had a problem but when he got caught stealing money from my Grandparents he admitted to it.. I know it was to get a pity party which he did. He signed himself into a 72 hour detox just to keep from going to jail which also worked. He is seeing doctors and counselors that are also feeding into his BS and just keep giving him more scripts such as nerve pills, anti depressants and even lithium. Hee seems to have certain people in the family baffled but I know he didn’t even trying.. This was all just for pity… He is still taking things he shouldn’t. darvocet, whole bottles of motion sickness, tripling up on the pills he is given by doctors as well as snorting them…
I haven’t talked to him in weeks because I cannot handle the stress of watching him kill himself and as selfish as that might sound I told him that I love him and will be here for support but until he is done I am done.. I have tried for so long now to help him and all he does is screw anyone who tries to help him over… Cheating, stealing and telling lie after lie… I
He doesn’t want the right help, he is just doing what he has to do to not go to jail for previous violations and seeing doctors to keep getting some type of pill in his hands… As well as buying pills from his connection which I know who that is but am told by the local police they cant do anything unless they catch something in action..
I am lost and don’t know what to do… He has a woman that obviously loves him, 2 gorgeous kids and is only 20 years old he is throwing his life away and I don’t think there is anything I can do..
Can someone please tell me if I am wrong…

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