Filed under: SuperSonics, Thunder
LAKE WORTH, Fla. -- Dean Tolson will wake up here Christmas morning after another restless night in a strange little bed, 3,000 miles away from home, surrounded by strangers and drug addicts, his day already dictated to him. There will be no presents to open. No tree to admire. No family to hug.This isn't jail. It just feels like it sometimes. Santa Claus doesn't stop at the detox center, where the distinction between inmate or patient often feels thin.
Yet there is no place else he would rather be.
"This place is my Christmas present. And it comes with a big bow on it,'' Tolson says as a tired smile emerges, his face drained from several days of emotional and physical strain. "This is how I'll get my life back.''
Tolson, who played three seasons with the Seattle Supersonics (1974-78) in the NBA, will be spending the holidays at Behavioral Health of the Palm Beaches, a drug treatment center that specializes in dependency issues.
It's where the desperate go.
Source: http://nba.fanhouse.com/2010/12/23/former-sonic-dean-tolson-happy-to-spend-christmas-in-drug-treatm/
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