Prior outpatient treatment; the counselor Randi

texture · ~two years before scene 004

• When: "two years ago" relative to the scene 004 afternoon; UNDATED absolutely
• What: Erdedy had already been through an outpatient treatment program two years earlier, where a counselor named Randi ("with an i, with a mustache like a Mountie") told him he "seemed insufficiently committed to the course of action that would be required to remove substances from his lifestyle," and had called his marijuana problem "an addiction every bit as rapacious as pure alcoholism." He recalls both remarks with defensive irritation while waiting.