Angelunatic
Active Member
That's the insanity of addiction. It has no logic. Seriously. If you are not a alcoholic/addict, you'll likely never wrap your head around many, many things they do.
A relapse when the stakes are highest is not only likely, but very probable. He has publicly documented substance abuse problems for 15 years. He admitted to smoking crack at the end of November. He then experienced a worldwide media presence AND a police probe that he was aware of AND the presence a full-time handler and still he only made it to January. He then went on a 4 month tear that ended up with him smoking crack with his sister on the front of the newspaper just over 2 months ago. He went and had a paid timeout/vacation at a "rehab", where he was seen at many bars and lent his car to a drunken woman who was not his wife, who parked the car behind the rehab on several nights. So yeah, don't let rehab narrative fool you. There is no way he makes it through the b(l)ender leading up to the election without getting back into the substances.
Whoever mentioned that he tends to lose it when something significant happens to him is bang on. There are winds blowing towards his house of cards in every direction. Think of the stories that are likely to come out in the media as the race heats up. The integrity commissioner investigation that will happen. An ongoing police probe that directly targets him. The very real potential that he fumbles the comeback story and his polls show him way behind in the race. Coming back home to the wife he doesn't get along with and kids who he recently lost custody of. A high-pressure competition for a job that he very likely doesn't enjoy or want beyond the night of the election.
Who knows, he may be wrangled/handled enough that nothing public comes out but at the very least, a drinking-pops-in-his-basement RoFo will not be capable of mounting a halfway decent camping. He only works from noon at the earliest when he is drinking/using drugs FFS.
I agree, addiction is hard to understand. My brother was 32 when he was told he had to stop drinking as he has cirrhosis of the liver. He has been to rehab and put on medication to help him stop drinking( antibuse). He stopped taking it when he felt better and went right back to drinking. My family has tried so many times to help , he won't let us. We had to force him into treatment against his will many times,. He decided to go on his own once. He was sober for 9 months and went back to drinking. We are sad because we know he is dying and his will to drink is more powerful than we know what to do. We can only watch as he slowly and painfully dies. He started drinking when he was a young teen. We cleaned his room when he was away at rehab( the last time) and found 103 empty mickeys of vodka that he was hoarding. Rehab was not amazing, he nearly died once from the detox alone. Rob Ford may be fooling the public when he returns, but he can't fool himself. If he was truly in rehab and has learned something than I hope he can succeed, but I feel he was in hiding because it was a way to save himself in the eyes of his supporters.