gwencooper
Bluelighter
- Joined
- Aug 16, 2011
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Tell me about that injection Minty. How long is it supposed to last?when i went into detox four months ago it was denied by my insurance company. their exact words were "heroin withdrawl will make you feel like you want to die, but you won't. where as benzo and alcohol withdrawl could actually kill you because there is the possibility of having a fatal seizure."
due to the extreme rising number of people getting addicted to heroin all insurance companies are basically saying they don't give a shit about any of them, pretty fucked up if you ask me. i spent four days in a detox center and it cost my rents just over 4k, now that made me feel like an asshole. however, insurance did cover 90% of my outpatient partial hospital and intensive outpatient programs tho which was decent. it still ended up costing us $40 something dollars per day mon-fri for six weeks. fuck insurance companies.
anyway....noddin right now. feelin good still smokin on the fire indica blueberry ohh yeah. basically having my last run with the blows till i get the vivatrol (naltrexone) injection next month.
Meanwhile, in regards to your earlier stuff:
i don't think it's necessarily random people getting addicted to heroin. i think it's people who can't afford oxycontin on the street (which are crazy expensive) end up going downtown in order to score to heroin which is cheaper. These are not vicodin people - a bottle of that is like 15 bucks on insurance - instead, they are strung out on the super strong oxycontins and are out of money so they're going for the cheap cos they NEED to get the sick off.
And adding to the crackdown and downfall are the Suburban pill popper moms who go scoring in the inner city sort of thing... I think THAT'S why the insurance companies don't want to cover it.
Added bonus adding to crackdown: There was a front page of the suburban newspaper that covers my town, recently reporting, that something like 21 kids in Will County Illinois - high school age - OD'ed fatally in 2012. Will County is directly west of the city on one of the two "heroin highways". Parents are freaking out. And this really IS fucked up.
Even more fucked up: Enquiring minds, like MINE: want to know where they're getting this OD worthy smack! (ok that's a bad thing to say, but that's how i feel..)
I was thinking about going to an outpatient program for dope but I don't want to be on that "list" where If I get cancer or something they won't give me pain killers because I'm a known abuser. Isn't that what happens? Uggh. Dreadful. And I'm trying to get a job with the State of Illinois, and they background check you and the last thing I want on my permanent record is that...
Bonus: depending on what department I work in, they'll do a drug test. Am currently up for a job in the Nursing Department (test), the Urban Planning Department (no test) and Fundraising (iffy. not sure about test).
I should pass the drug test fine if and when it comes up. I'll stop the dope and drink a ton of water. Am currently chipping anyway. The benzos are prescribed so is the adderrall.
By the way, the FDA once flagged me as a BenzoBitch - running a couple of prescriptions at two different pharmacies, using insurance for one, the other out of pocket. Way Back in 2008. So I gotta keep legal with that. Turns out am no longer on the list, according to my doctor, so I'm gonna not refill too early and switch pharmacies around like I used to...
Wow I'm really going crazy today with the posting.
I do hope you enjoy/find informative/do not hate.
love,
gwen