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My father is a chronic alcoholic. He suffered a major brain injury August 2017, lucky to be alive and able to function almost as well as before the injury. There were points where he couldn’t speak, feed himself, toilet, or even open his eyes!

Has since carried on drinking, messing up the various medication he is on. He has been in and out of hospital but won’t accept any help. When he goes cold turkey it brings on his seizures, he ends up in hospital with limited movement and speech (like a stroke victim). The hospital discharge him. No one will offer him a detox programme. His gp will not see him if he’s not sober, and won’t make a house call. He was found on someone’s front lawn this morning. He was only half-dressed on someone’s drive the other afternoon. The emergency care team have told me there is nothing anyone can do if he won’t accept help, which he won’t. The only thing I was advised to do was call 111, or the paramedics – both of which I e find before! I d sat through the meetings and listened to their evaluations! Basically there’s nothing we can do until one of us find him dead! Thanks for that ‘Darren’.

Any ideas on where to go from here – I am at a loss!

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