Alcoholism Recovery & Treatment

Question by Jackie !: What type of discharge do i get if I was diagnosed as a level 2 alcohol dependent and refuse treatment?
I’ve been in the navy for over 9 months, I had an isolated incident (ARI) and my command reffered me to SARP (Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Program), if i refuse/fail treatment what type of discharge is that?

Best answer:

Answer by Teekno
Stupidity discharge.

You’re being offered help. Free help, and you draw a salary while doing it. That doesn’t happen in the outside.

Give your answer to this question below!

Question by brittani LS: What would be a good reason for an individual to refuse undergoing an alcohol treatment program?
I’m doing a story for my creative writing class, and my main character is a girl whose dad doesn’t want to stop drinking alcohol. I was just wondering what would be a good reason for his refusal. I was also wondering how the girl would convince her dad to go and get himself treated. Any ideas?

Best answer:

Answer by Chastity C
I think the most obvious reasons for refusal is denial, shame, and unwillingness to change. You could start the story by showing the father’s resistance to positive change, and then throw in a traumatic experience/catharsis that forces him into rehab. It’s so sadly cliche but true, that it sometimes takes life-changing or near-death experiences to force idiots to take action.

Give your answer to this question below!

The subject is a straight A student and Freshman in public high school and a speed-reader who shuns television in favor of reading books which she does avidly. She is normally mild mannered, considerate, polite, kind to the underprivledged, and charming to those who know her. In her home environment, however, she has a very aggressive, foul-mouthed older sister (age 19) who is into pot and alcohol and who performed in the lower 25% of her class and was given to highly disrespectful behavior. The subject also has a mother who is prone to hitting, hair pulling, screaming and uncontrolled outbursts of profanity. In this environment, the subject is sometimes drawn in when attacked and will resort to profanity and yelling back in an effort to defend herself.
The mother also has a paramour of over 5 years who is head of their shared household but with no custodial rights over the subject or desire to take on responsibility for any of the 3 children under his roof, given that he has 3 of his own out of state from a previous marriage.
Based on prolonged complaining by the paramour and a recent episode where all parties engaged in yelling and profanity, the mother has decided the problem must be with the mild-mannered 14 year old with straight A’s since she and the eldest daughter were never able to perform at that level in school. So the mother is PULLING the subject OUT OF SCHOOL for an intensive 2-week psychiatric outpatient program (6 hours per day) at a critical time academically, right before semester finals. The subject is willing to submit to evaluation and counseling but wants to do so at a better time so she can focus instead on making good grades in her finals in hopes of maintaining a high GPA that will put her in better stead for a college scholarship.
The subject in no way is a danger to herself or others and there is no psychological crisis going on at the moment. But in an effort to justify her decision to take radical action at this time, the mother is now painting her daughter as having “serious psychiatric problems” — which prior to the latest meltdown where the mother attacked and beat the subject in an angry rage — were nonexistant and never mentioned by the mother or apparent in any behavioral reports from the subjects teachers.
At 14, a minor gains some additional discretion over who they can choose to live with, i.e. their mother or their father. They also have more rights in other areas. My question here is whether the subject can refuse to participate in this intensive 2-week psychiatric program in favor of attending school at this time to protect her GPA and class standing. Or can the custodial mother FORCE the child to not attend school and go into this psychiatric program which was never ordered by the hospital or any doctor she was seeing. To this point, the child has not seen any mental health practitioner on a regular basis, nor did anyone (outside of the paramour who is not a family member) believe that such counseling was even necessary.
Can the 14-year old legally stand up for herself to make the more rational decision to not enter this psychiatric program right at this time and in favor of attending school to prepare for and to take her finals?
This would be in the state of Illinois. The non-custodial father with full, unsupervised visitation rights lives out of state but is very active in trying to support the child and to gain custody which earlier this past week before the idea of the psychiatric program was formulated by the mother, had been offered to the father by the mother as a possible solution. But instead of relinquishing child support and custody, the mother has chosen to characterize the child as having “serious psychiatric problems” which the mother intends to address via the psychiatric program (paid for by the mother’s health insurance policy), and quite possibly, psychotropic drugs if she can convince the doctors they are necessary, supposedly based on behavior in the home not observed by the doctors.
The mother does not have a 4 year college degree and is noted by many to be a pathological liar with symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder as well as Hysterical Personality Disorder, as observed by a veteran psychiatrist and mental health clinical director of many years.
So can the 14 year old legally refuse psychiatric treatment at this particular time and stay in school instead?