Brother going back into treatment today
It's not an ideal solution - we couldn't get him into the programs that we feel would help him most (it's critical that his treament address his anxiety issues, which are his trigger for drinking). Not surprisingly, the best places don't accept "charity cases" like my brother. Would love to get him into Hazelden, but no dice.
However, at least we'll know he's safe and unable to keep drinking himself to death for the next several months. He's scared, and sad because he'll miss his son's last baseball games, music programs, etc. and possibly his graduation ceremony. Since this treatment facility is local, we hope he'll get permission to attend his boy's commencement (closely supervised by us, of course).
I'm feeling a mixture of relief (he really was on the brink of killing himself by the bottle) and guilt because I DO feel relief that I won't spend 24/7 worrying about when the next crisis or scary phone call will come.
I pray that this time (his fourth in treatment) will have last effect.