Mailbag: Sober-home operators are profiting from desperate addicts

Sober-home operators are profiting from desperate addicts

Let me get this straight: If the clients at these sober-living homes are failing, the operators drop them off in parks?

Failing how? Paying? Relapsing?

Regardless, it sounds like one thing these sober-living homes do not provide is compassion. Once again, these homes are nothing but cash cows for the owners and the citizens in the surrounding areas are forced to live with the consequences.

There is no good reason why these homes have to be in areas where millions of people come to vacation, and the residents pay a fortune for our homes and property taxes. If the owners of these homes were serious about helping these people get sober, the homes would be in areas where temptation is not on every corner.

This is a disservice not only to the people desperately trying to get sober, but for those of us living here who have been victimized by some of those very people residing in these homes.

By the way, I am very familiar with addiction, so my compassion runs deep; this insidious disease has affected my family to the core. My comments are not an affront to addict; it is a fact that these operators are making a lot of money on those most desperate for help and who have no Plan B, when things are not going according to their plan!

Juli Hayden

Newport Beach

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Retire school flag at Lindbergh

A tattered flag flies at Lindbergh School on 23rd Street in Costa Mesa. We see this every day on our daily walk. It has been tattered for the past year. The flag condition is disgraceful and should be respectfully buried or burned.

Bruce and Martha Menk

Costa Mesa