Neighbors Are Starting to Call the Paramedics on My Son

My 27-year-old alcoholic son has been living in his car in my pkg lot for the last few weeks since he got thrown out of rehab after almost 8 months. This has led to him vomiting and passing out on the ground near his car.

2 days ago, when I was home, a male neighbor walked over to my son and asked if he was ok. I heard him tell my son that he’s been sober for 7 years and his life is great.

Then yesterday, while I was at my fiance’s in the next town, I got a call from a deputy sheriff. She said that a female neighbor had seen my son passed out on the hot asphalt and had called the paramedics, but my son had refused to be evaluated.

She asked me if I would run over there because my son was giving them a hard time about going to the psyche ward of this hospital that he hates on a 5150 and he’d threatened to bite an officer (this was a first).

I told her that I was not “running over there” for the 46th time and that I could not keep doing this. She asked me where I lived and I told her that I lived in the bldg there, so once again, she asked me if I would run over there.

I told her that I was not at home and that they could put a spit mask on my son if they wanted but I was not running over there again. She then asked if I would talk to my son over the phone and persuade him to go with them.

I said I would, so she put him on the phone. I told my son to act like an adult, straighten up, and do what they said. He responded by saying that that’s what he’d been telling himself.