True. But in fairness, an addict of Rob's caliber doesn't need an excuse to get down with his bad self. It's sunny? Let's get high! It's raining? Let's get high! It's a day that ends in "y"? Par-tay!

For comparison's sake, at Caritas you were not allowed to see/talk to your family for the first 5 months. It was about cutting the cord for a while. Focusing on yourself. After after 5 months you got to go home for a day and a half, unsupervised. Only exceptions were absolute emergencies...

So he did banking while out? Renata doesn't work, right? Maybe she had no access to cash to pay bills at home. It would make sense. We would have made sure that those things were taken care of prior to entry. But he left in a hurry.

Oh absolutely it is. Which is one reason why -- IF (I know, big if) there was a legitimate reason to get them together you might not want to do it with the Rehab's car with paid staff driving.

Well, yeah I am. I guess. I mean I will fully admit that anything is possible, I'm just occam's razoring it. Or maybe I'm not. I dunno. I'm just sayin' that from a crappy-rehab perspective there's nothing inconsistent here. I reserve my rage in this case for so called doctors who think...

I'm guessing that he is wearing a suit because he knew he'd be seen. So he dressed as he usually does when out in public. I think this part of the story checks out. He's probably at Greenestone. They gave him a family pass to deal with something that involved Renata. I don't see a big...

Not necessarily -- even at Caritas and one other place we would ask parents/family members to take residents to appointments on occasion. We would send an "older" resident with them to ensure rules were followed. But sometimes, for some appointments it just didn't make sense to send staff or our...

Their Facebook group proudly announces their new CFO. I mean really, WTF. At most places (rehab/charities) I've worked, the CFO was the accountant, or whoever had a few bucks on them.

I don't think John Haines is involved in it anymore. I think he was a partner, or something to that effect. I may be imagining this, But I thought it was owned by one of the owners (sons? not sure) of Leon's furniture. Shawn? Shaun? Something like that.

+1 Totally believable.

The no internet history thing is 100% believable to me. We have no evidence that RoFo did any work whatsoever , much less with a computer and while the rest of the world was learning to love its new robot overlords, Rob was getting high and pissing in parks. He became mayor through brute...

Huh. Doug really thinks he's Tommen to RoFo's Joffrey. But he's Cersei.

Yeah, this sounds pretty likely to me too. If I had to put some money on it, I'd go with this.

If there is any twist that would make this whole thing even more bizarre, it would be to have this turn out to be true and have Ford Nation go from pretending to care about addicts, to pretending to care about gay rights and accusing the left of homophobic in their dislike of RoFo. But right...

You *love* thinking about that? As opposed to retching uncontrollably? Then yes. Yes it is weird. Yes

I think the illicit love affair rates on the tinfoil meter from me. I put it down to this: drug use is often highly ritualized. Most addicts are in the habit of hiding, and that seclusion becomes part of the ritualized behavior. If Renata is off harder stuff now (who knows?) then it can...

IV heroin can, smoking crack as well -- a sign of nerve damage.

No, true -- but that's on its own. Take a few oxies first. Then herculean amounts of booze. Then do a line. Thats pretty much what Ford is up to it seems.

Quite a few. Cocaine. Crack. Heroin. Usually the initial hit is intense, depending on the user of course, and your're just too messed up to face the world immediately.

Rob is what we'd call a garbage can, or in proper parlance, cross-addicted. His drug of choice is the one he's about to ingest. Of this I have no doubt.