Rob Ford: The Mirror...er...Cracked...

I agree with Sineed. Leave Ford alone right now.

terrytowel wrote:

Sineed wrote:

nicky wrote:

I suppose you can but anything, but my expeience helping clients (even those with money) get into a treatment facility suggests this takes much longer.

I'm with Gord Perks on this one: it's not our business whether he's in rehab. Also, the more people poke around, the more it fuels that whole family's martyr complex.

True I do agree, but Ford is such a compulsive liar you can't beleive anything that he says. I agree with the above comments that it is HIGHLY unusual for someone in rehab to be able to make a phone call. From everything I know about these rehab places, communication is cut-off for 30 days. In fact you are not allowed to contact family members.

He just called the Toronto Sun to give an interview and said he is doing constituency work while at rehab! saying "I am making calls to constituents” He claims it is a 'working' rehab. I'm sorry no rehab allows these many phone calls. He is probably in a weight-loss spa.

In the same vein:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rob-ford-s-work-calls-from-rehab-a...

nicky wrote:

I agree with Terrytowell (did I really write that?).

I fully expect that in 27 days Ford will step out into the sunshine, proclaim himself cured  and resume his re-election campaign.

The factors discussed above, including Ford's repeated lies on just about every subject, certainly raise a doubt as to whether he is in fact in rehab.

To coin a phrase, lie to me once, shame on you. Lie to me 786 times, shame on me.

In these circumstances I think it is right to expect some confirmation that he is in fact in treatment beyond the word of Ford or his brother. We don't need to know where he is, just that he is in fact in rehab. A letter to the City Clerk or the acting mayor would suffice. They could confirm this without revealing his whereabouts.

Sineed, you seem to know something about treatment centres. What can you tell us about telephone access by in-patients?

I agree that confirmation of rehab is necessary, though not location. It's important for the public to know whether the Fords are lying again, attempting to bamboozle the public into sympathy votes for the 'rehab'd' Rob.

This is thread drift, however, the evidence shows that typical "rehab" techniques are very ineffective at curing addiction in any event. So, even if Rob Ford is doing what he should, chances are that it won't change his behaviour permanently anyway. Excerpt from the link:

Salon.com wrote:

Peer-reviewed studies peg the success rate of AA somewhere between 5 and 10 percent. That is, about one of every fifteen people who enter these programs is able to become and stay sober. In 2006, one of the most prestigious scientific research organizations in the world, the Cochrane Collaboration, conducted a review of the many studies conducted between 1966 and 2005 and reached a stunning conclusion: “No experimental studies unequivocally demonstrated the effectiveness of AA” in treating alcoholism. This group reached the same conclusion about professional AA-oriented treatment (12-step facilitation therapy, or TSF), which is the core of virtually every alcoholism-rehabilitation program in the country.

Doctor confirms to CBC news that Rob Ford is in rehab.  link

It's interesting that the CBC was chosen by the Fords for the release of this infomation.  When asked why the CBC was chosen, Doug Ford says,

Doug Ford wrote:

Well first of all I respect the CBC. I believe they are one of the most credible organizations in Canada in the media, in my opinion. And that it will stop the speculation, for example, a 15-year-old young lady spotted Rob Ford at the Tim Horton's. Another person spotted him in Hamilton. Spotted him in Calgary. Spotted him everywhere. Just to stop the speculation to let the people of Toronto know that Rob is taking this seriously, is getting treatment and that he wants to continue coming back and serving the people.

The National Post has a more extended article with more pictures of Ford in Bracebridge:

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/05/16/rob-ford-spotted-in-ontario-cott...

Rob Ford just got appointed to Hockey's Hall of Fame Board of Directors

So how long before he makes another embarrassing headline and gets kicked off the board? A year? Six months? Should we start a pool?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/rob-ford-crack-video-watch-1.3143013 

AHHH!  Keep forgetting.

Unsurprisingly, Doug Ford is unimpressed.

Quote:

"All it does is hurt Rob's family, hurts Rob's kids," Doug Ford told CBC News.

"We find it disgusting as a family."

Well, if someone unearthed a video of Rob Ford drunkenly punching a swan, and released it for lulz, I could agree somewhat.

But the mere existence of this video was denied so consistently and for so long that I think there's a genuine public interest in demonstrating that it really did exist all along, and was basically what it had been claimed to be.

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