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For many of Poe’s clients, his four-hour detoxification program is a step in a desperate cycle of drunkeness, and panhandling, intermixed with periods of sobriety where alcoholics take low-level manual jobs and struggle to get the funds to get drunk again. “There’s no question about it,” Poe said. “Many of them have hit bottom.”
But the Starting Point program has proved to be an economical w'ay to deal with public drunkenness. “In terms of expense, this costs the public much less than imprisonment,” he said.
There is another part to Starting Point. After the
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