![]() ![]() If Brown could white-knuckle withdraw from alcohol long enough to board a flight to Sitka the next day, he had a spot in long-term residential alcohol treatment center.īrown, 57, is one of a few hundred homeless alcoholics who live on the streets of Anchorage. Photographed on Tuesday, November 18, 2014. “I’ve felt trapped for quite a while,” he said. Brown, who had been living homeless in Anchorage, said he wants to try to make some changes. Flowerdew said there’s a lack of residential treatment options for alcoholics who are trying to get off the street. As winter settled in, he found himself camping out at night.ĭebbie Flowerdew, case manager with Pathways program of Anchorage Community Mental Health Services, shops with Scott Brown at Value Village to prepare him to travel to a residential treatment program in Sitka. When he got it, it tasted like gasoline, but by the time he was halfway through it no longer mattered. Just a few days earlier, he had been panhandling on a Fairview street corner, looking for $10 to buy a cheap bottle of vodka. On a Tuesday morning in November, Scott Brown woke up sober in a stark motel room on Fireweed Lane. Updated: DecemPublished: January 25, 2015
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