Originally Posted by
choublak 
A few questions came to mind:
Do these houses have rules? What if someone is violent? Are they kicked out?
Are the houses cleaned periodically? Or do the alcoholics live in there among vomit, excrement and spilled alcohol?
What if they wander away drunk; wouldn't that defeat the purpose?
They do their own laundry & the one I saw on the news seemed fairly clean. The police know who the "wet house" residents are. I believe the hospital staff & police officers are glad these places exist. These folks are not going to get better & don't want to get better. This is the reality of late stage alcoholism. Their life clock has already been punched.