Phil,
We don't have any money to put up for him, so he is on his own. I 
don't think thta I'd pay for rehab anyway, in his case, because I'd 
feel like I was throwing my money away.  He still thinks that he's 
right!  What a fool!   What a lousy system, as you described 
it.  It's just games and a pay check for the people in charge.  Greg 
is planning on going to visit Chris soon.  He has to wait three days 
because the law is that no one can have visitors until they've been 
in jail for three days.  I have no clue why, but that's okay.  It 
will give us time to cool off.  I don't even think that Chris could 
be baled out this time because he was already out on bale when he got 
arrested.  Oh, I just want to shake him!
Kathy


At 07:15 PM 8/1/2006, you wrote:
>He will probably, based upon local laws, be put through a drug rehab program
>even though he was dealing.  Gretchen was distributing mushrooms when she
>was arrested so if she doesn't make it through this final program, or if she
>screws up any where along the way, she will likely go back to a judge and be
>put on several years of probation and then, of course, she maintains her
>felony record for the rest of her life.  If she can make it through this
>diversionary program, her record will be erased.  Colorado has this stupid
>three strikes and your out law but if she has to go back before a judge,
>they send her to prison.  They often, out here, send them for six months,
>let them out, put them right back into the same old drug rehab programs, and
>if they screw up again, they ship them back to prison for a few more months,
>or generally, by that time, for a couple of years or more based upon the
>original charges.  Distributing isn't good, of course, but he is going to
>find out.  Gretchen is doing better but still struggling.  they know how to
>beat the urine analysis checks, too, unless they do a mouth swab and then
>they can't beat it.  Gretchen has been drinking lately but so far has beat
>the U A samples she has been giving.  She broke up with her unsaved
>boyfriend because she wants to do what's right but the drink has been
>substituted for the drugs.  Gretchen's drug of choice, of course, is meth.
>Crack ain't nothing to sneeze at either, of course.  Only 1 out of 500
>people ever go straight, Gretchen's diversion officer told her and this lady
>is a born again Christian and has talked about coming to our church.  Mostly
>likely, Chris will be put on a drug rehab program, and he'll have to pay for
>his own classes, and if they offer a diversion program, that will run his
>bill up to 4 to 5 grand over a two year period.  It is sink or swim by that
>time.  In Gretchen's recent drug rehab classes, all 30 of the people have
>failed many of their weekly UAs.  Keep in mind, this is after Gretchen spent
>9 months at a Christian drug rehab church.  She told me the other night that
>she honestly believes she has gotten more out of the drug classes than the
>Christian home because Victory Outreach had no personal Bible studies and
>absolutely no follow up once Gretchen was out.  Don't go jumping right into
>putting him into some Christian outfit right off the bat either.  You'll go
>broke over night and the chances of him coming clean is slim.  Teen
>challenge out here is getting 1700 a month per kid in their drug residential
>drug home program.
>
>Phil.