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Violence is more of an issue for psych wards, prohibited fucking more a problem for rehabs. Lucas is little threat to either fight or fuck, but he's in an environment where people suspect that you're going to if they turn their backs. It must be flattering for him to be treated as an adult male.i have to disagree in part. It very much depends on the hospital, the ward, the patients, milieu, shift, and the staff.
Psych hospitals where I’ve been employed have varied a lot. A state-run facility had a syphilis outbreak on one ward and a sexual assault of an autistic patient on another ward. The forensic units do tend to be better equipped but voluntary or involuntary psych units without criminal involvement can really vary. Most of the assaults in general occurred nights and weekends where there is minimal staffing.
I would say it might be harder for patients to sneak off for sexual encounters depending on the ward, but the time it takes for a patient to corner or attack another is split-second. And lucas is pretty opportunistic. One place where I worked had an incident of near escape because one patient used the chaos of another patient trying to choke out a nurse to slip through the ward door out to the hallway. My first day on an adolescent psych unit involved having a severely autistic patient walk by me and slip her arm around mine to try to bite me. I’d worked in other psych units before so I slipped through quick but I recall how quick she had been.
as others mentioned, substance abuse rehabs have a reputation for hooking up and that’s something that’s pretty strongly admonished and monitored. I only had a few mini stints covering mental health cases at dual diagnosis rehabs but they seemed to be much better about discharging patients who begin forming exclusive relationships (courting/grooming). Inpatient psych units don’t have that luxury
Edit to add: I’ve never been employed or even stepped foot into the hospitals Lucas has been in or might be in, so if you’re speaking of his specific psych unit, then you may be right. It may be very secure and well-staffed. I’m commenting on psych units in general where I’ve worked in 3 states, but not Washington.
Yeah, rehab babies are a thing, too. Like psych wards, rehabs gather emotionally charged, vulnerable people in crisis under one roof, and provide them with opportunities to mingle. Fucking inevitably follows. This is true not just of rehabs, but 12 step and "recovery communities" in general. You may have heard of the fabled "13th step." This is fucking. Many people participate in "recovery" for the express purpose of locating and fucking, someone vulnerable.You could pick up women in rehab. That happens too. This is a really bad idea because if one relapses the other usually does too.
Rehab couples do not last and do not stay sober. You are correct in that when one horny addict relapses, the other typically does, too. When they break up, as they inevitably will, one or both will relapse. Any difficulty in the relationship=relapse. But this isn't extraordinary, because addicts need no nudging to relapse.
Lucas hasn't publicly tried this approach or identified rehabs and meetings as a stalking ground for teen puss puss. I don't think he will. To do so, he'd have to admit that he has a problem, or at least go through the motions of admitting that he has a problem. And the kind of puss puss one finds in rehabs and rooms generally isn't the illegally young, top shelf, envy-inducing variety that Lucas is eager to be seen with. Finally, Lucas lacks the social skills necessary to compete against other rehab Romeos. The presence of a single male in the community with a baseball cap and neck tattoo would strike Lucas mute.