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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have two kids who go to this school and am extremely disturbed by what I am hearing from parents arguing against this center. There is no evidence that people with substance abuse disorders in treatment are a danger to children in a school. This is not a facility for child predators. I know several people in drug treatment and they are human beings just like the rest of us. There is enough cruelty in our world and in the DMV in particular right now including toward people with mental illnesses and disabilities. The true colors of some in our community are really showing and it is sad.[/quote]

Did you miss the part about clients with impulse control issues and serious mental health issues?

You seem to think the residents will be akin to real housewives who overdo the wine or pop pills. That won’t be the case.

And you presumably don’t live next to the property. Imagine 16+ patients plus staff and vendors and deliveries coming and going at all hours…because that’s what happens. It’s a large-scale for-profit business, not a small group home.

Go sit in the ER waiting room at Montgomery General tonight between 10pm and midnight and report back. The folks you see there are strikingly similar to who will be living at the project alongside the school. [/quote]

This is a lot of emotional and dramatic language absent facts. I'm not sure why you keep mentioning impulse control other than to scare people. How do you know the patients have impulse control problems? Mental illness and drug addiction in treatmenr does not equate to harming children.[/quote]

Sigh.

Google the project. The parent company. They say who they treat.

Google what a Level 3.5 facility is for (or read the copied language posted by someone else upthread). It’s for seriously ill people—including those with impulse control issues…hence the need for 24/7 supervision and treatment.

It’s not a spa. It’s not just a group home. It’s a 24/7 treatment facility for seriously mentally ill and addicted people.

Go sit in the er and watch the mentally ill people who show up each night. It’s a thing. My heart goes out to those people, but they don’t belong next to a school. [/quote]

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