MV effect of meth addict group home

[JSmith43]

A call to USPAP experts: Your comments please,

How far can I go on a public forum? Any pointers so as to not cross any USPAP lines? I do not intend to treat these studies as attempted appraisal assignments and therefore perform a USPAP compliant review. But, since I want to reference actual work product (when I find it), I would like some feedback

In my opinion, I can go as far as I want to (subject to forum rules and not yelling fire in a theater) with my comments. If I am wrong, someone please save me!

Thanks in advance.

 

[moh malekpour]

Per the meeting put on by the clinic sponsor, patients will be free to walk around outside. There is no fence. The fence was offered as a possible appeasement, with great reluctance, to the neighbors.

The residents first 10 days or so will be filled with severe withdrawal symptoms if what I have heard about crack, heroine and meth addiction is true.

It cannot be a serious drug or alcohol treatment clinic. I have been personally in the care manor hospital several years ago, a first class drug and alcohol treatment setting, not as a patient but as a co dependence and they were very serious. It was like any other hospital with nurses, doctors, psychiatrists and counselors. It was a 50 beds hospital with 4 or 5 patients in each room. All counselors were ex addicts who was rehabilated and the patients were given lectures, classes, group and individual therapy and medication. No going home, no going out unless in a group to go to park or shopping centers under supervision of nurses and counselors. Their problem is that they cannot control themselves and no matter how much they want to quit, if they left alone, they would be tempted for the drugs and if they do, every therapy and treatment that they have gotten, would be vanished.

 

[Crunch Hardtack]

I believe in an earlier post someone made the comment that comparing a home for sex offenders to a drug rehab home was an apples and oranges comparison. I disagree. In the case of sex offenders, it is essentially an established fact that sex offenders cannot be cured--they seem to operate on instinct. The same is true of certain types of narcotics addicts. The need for a "fix" lowers the adddict to functioning on an instinctive level rather than a rational level. Regardless of the level of security one of these rehab houses may offer, a drugged escapee is a guaranteed threat to the immediately surrounding community. No amount of BS studies can counter common sense. The presence of one of theses houses in a "normal" SFR development will cause a reduction in property value as any potential purchaser, who is informed of the presence of such a facility, would not want to live in that neighborhood (unless perhaps the purchase price were significantly discounted so that the deal on the house outweighed any potential security issues the buyer may have.)