Help Trast get into drug Treatment!
On August 23 of 2014, Trast first ran away. We struggled to find him and succeeded less than a month later on September 17 to bring him home and get him into a treatment center. That time around, the out of pocket expenses were too much when the insurance company decided he didn't need treatment anymore.
We went through great efforts to get him cleaned up and he even went back to Wisconsin for a few months after his treatment to spend time under the thumb of his wise AA Grandpa. He did well during that time, but little did we know that he planned to run away again the moment he got back to LA.
This time, Trast was on the run for over a year, living on the streets of Southern California, and they were not kind to him. Trast suffered a brutal accident at one point, costing him most of a finger and a month in the hospital in order to receive a sequence of three suguries.
We lost all contact with him during this time, as did even his closest friends and we feared the worst. Hope was revived when the photo of him surfaced on the Nat Geo instagram page. While it was clear that his addiction to meth had taken hold of him, at least we knew he was alive.
Through contacting the photographer and the Greater West Hollywood Food Coalition, we learned that he was in fact still in LA and our intense search instantly resumed. He was found once again on Monday March 14 , 2016, as a wonderful birthday gift to his mother, and we're looking to get him back into treatment.
Fortunately, he wants the help he needs and we're very optimistic. His one request of his mother as he goes back into treatment this time is that he have regular access to her and his brother.
Even with the insurance available to us, it's not enough to cover his treatment. Centers in our network don't have room for him, and centers out of our network are too costly.
But as a dear friend to Trast and our family said, "you cannot put a price on your child's health'.
If you are able to give, we all thank you very much for anything you can do.
Out of pocket cost:
$1,500 Deductible
$200 a day
We're assuming at least a 30 day program.