Comments on: what every homeless person needs http://chosenfast.com/2008/04/01/what-every-homeless-person-needs/ Greensboro's homeless blog Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:14:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Priscilla http://chosenfast.com/2008/04/01/what-every-homeless-person-needs/comment-page-1/#comment-119202 Priscilla Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:52:03 +0000 http://chosenfast.com/?p=1154#comment-119202 Dear Liz, I have an uncle that sounds similar. I hope and pray that your brother will want to break free from his sin and bondage. I think of my uncle the same way. God Bless. Dear Liz,

I have an uncle that sounds similar. I hope and pray that your brother will want to break free from his sin and bondage. I think of my uncle the same way. God Bless.

]]> By: Liz Butler http://chosenfast.com/2008/04/01/what-every-homeless-person-needs/comment-page-1/#comment-106986 Liz Butler Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:57:34 +0000 http://chosenfast.com/?p=1154#comment-106986 My brother has been homeless for the last eight years - I tried to help several times but the more I tried to help the more he stole from me and my family and in the end he always takes off and with whatever he can take. Last night he phoned from the subway station (this is the first contact in 2 years) he had taken a bus in from another town, my husband and I picked him up and brought him to our home - he is now 30 years old and an alcoholic homeless man who uses Listerine to control the withdrawal seizures that he takes. The problem is I don't have the money for a high end rehab facility that will intervene the situation and the detox centers available at no charge will not force him to stay there - and he does not want help. I am worried that my brother is lost forever and he will wind up with liver failure due to this disease - he left my home today to go downtown Toronto to find alcohol - I could not continue to administer it to him - my options were give him a bottle of booze and let him get drunk and irate and then we kick him out or let him go down town and find his booze and drink it down there - all options end up with him drinking alcohol on the streets living in shelters and never maintaining a normal life again. He did hold a stable job for 4 years after high school and is a high school graduate - he started smoking crack - lost his job and apartment and stole from everyone who tried to help. The Crack smoking turned into what ever substance that would ease the crack addiction and the alcohol is a result of whatever substance addiction he is now trying to quit which I believe he said is opium - he would be better of getting arrested and spending a year in jail to dry out or sober up - there is no help and this is a vicious cycle that he cannot get out of. My brother has been homeless for the last eight years – I tried to help several times but the more I tried to help the more he stole from me and my family and in the end he always takes off and with whatever he can take.
Last night he phoned from the subway station (this is the first contact in 2 years) he had taken a bus in from another town, my husband and I picked him up and brought him to our home – he is now 30 years old and an alcoholic homeless man who uses Listerine to control the withdrawal seizures that he takes. The problem is I don’t have the money for a high end rehab facility that will intervene the situation and the detox centers available at no charge will not force him to stay there – and he does not want help. I am worried that my brother is lost forever and he will wind up with liver failure due to this disease – he left my home today to go downtown Toronto to find alcohol – I could not continue to administer it to him – my options were give him a bottle of booze and let him get drunk and irate and then we kick him out or let him go down town and find his booze and drink it down there – all options end up with him drinking alcohol on the streets living in shelters and never maintaining a normal life again. He did hold a stable job for 4 years after high school and is a high school graduate – he started smoking crack – lost his job and apartment and stole from everyone who tried to help. The Crack smoking turned into what ever substance that would ease the crack addiction and the alcohol is a result of whatever substance addiction he is now trying to quit which I believe he said is opium – he would be better of getting arrested and spending a year in jail to dry out or sober up – there is no help and this is a vicious cycle that he cannot get out of.

]]> By: Cara Michele http://chosenfast.com/2008/04/01/what-every-homeless-person-needs/comment-page-1/#comment-99416 Cara Michele Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:22:56 +0000 http://chosenfast.com/?p=1154#comment-99416 i hear that a lot. i've yet to see it be that simple. i hear that a lot. i’ve yet to see it be that simple.

]]> By: brittany http://chosenfast.com/2008/04/01/what-every-homeless-person-needs/comment-page-1/#comment-99414 brittany Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:19:23 +0000 http://chosenfast.com/?p=1154#comment-99414 some people became homeless for poor decisions.(quote of a homeless person) some people became homeless for poor decisions.(quote of a homeless person)

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