Well doesn't welfare pay for rehab? Alisha asks. She's eligible for a 7 day detox. But that's all. Rehab is a thousand dollars a day and they don't pay for that unless the providers psychiatrist believes you are committed to a drug free life. She needs years of therapy before she will be ready for that. So after 7 days in detox they kick her back on the same streets where she got in trouble. Since she's an adult they can't make her stay in detox, so she will probably leave after a day or two anyway.