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An recent article reported that a former Navy hospital ship, left in port in Baltimore, was auctioned off yesterday for $50,000. The ship was seized by federal marshals in March and auctioned by the US District Court to pay off debts owed by the former owner who had planned to convert the ship into a floating drug rehab center.

A floating drug rehab center? At first that sounds like a strange idea but some of the major problems associated with addicts during treatment would be solved by drug addiction treatment in the middle of the ocean.

Anyone who has had a loved one go through drug rehab knows how hard it can be to get the person to agree to stay in the program once they’ve started. It would be impossible to leave this one.

This would also be very helpful for the drug rehab staff. The ship would leave with a full boat of clients and return a month later, with clients rehabilitated and happy. And just image how secure it would be: there would be no concern about visitors or outsiders trying to bring drugs into the center.

Unfortunately, there was no report on what the new owner plans to do with the ship but I am still hoping that someone will turn it into a unique location for a successful drug rehab program.