So who has gone to Drug/Alcohol ReHab? (not Mental health rehab)!

[DroneLore]

The other day i got really high, was kinda freaking out and told my friend i was thinking about checking myself into rehab. he told me it suck unless you go to an expensive one like this:

Me. It was fabulous. Palm Beach Florida. We had a 4 star chef and I gained 25lbs.
$35k a month and worth every penny. Stayed clean for, well since rehab.

being poor sucks. i cant even afford therapy.

after i got arrested i attended aa meetings for about 3 months. they kinda helped but my social anxiety (one of the main reasons i use in the first place) interfered, and i've kinda been too ashamed to go back. plus i dont really want to abstain entirely. i dont know what the fuck i want.

 

[cj]

Ive been to a lockdown hospital detox for 5 days and a 17 day rehab and detox. The hospital one was after a suicide attempt and it was really awful couldnt go outside bad food sterile enviroment rude staff just a shit hole. The residential one was nice got a nice suboxone detox with some phenobarbital cause i lied about being addicted to xanax. The food was decent it was co-ed volleyball shit was cool.

 

[Pill2Chill]

with some phenobarbital cause i lied about being addicted to xanax.

Way to get clean.

Who am I kidding, I did the exact same thing when I went in for that 1 day, I told them I was still addicted to oxycodone and tramadol and benzos, while it was only tramadol and benzos at the time. They still only gave me 100mg tramadol & 10mg valium/day while I had been taking the equivalent of 300mg+ of valium (various benzos) and 800mg+ of tramadol per day for months.

After I left the place I detoxed on my own. Thankfully my parents were very understanding. Now, about 9months later, I've relapsed w/ the benzos (after being clean for quite some time) but am using them in normal therapeutic amounts for GAD which remained a problem even months after I'd quit. (By a normal dose I mean 12mg bromazepam per day OR 2mg clonazepam per day when I've run out of bromazepam, to hold me over till my next bromazepam script.

I also take tramadol again, but I only use it for 1 week each month, to keep it working as well as it is.

^Alcohol w/ds aren't so deadly.

I like the young kids who act like they're fucking hard gangbangers and shit, not realising there's guise who are straight out of a 20-year prison bid aha. White boys talking about how they were down with their crip sect and whatnot is quite laughable.

Ppl like that can really tick me off. In your stead I'd probably just be laughing at them aswell. Fyi I'm not entirely sure what crip sect means, being European and all, but I do believe I got the gist of it. (Thanks to south park, lmao.)

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The two demons I've defeated are oxy and amphetamines, but I'm still far from clean unfortunately.

Post turned out longer than I expected (ofc it did..), FFFUUU amphetamines. (Lol, now the above sentence looks like BS. I'll clarify, I use amps maybe twice or three times a year while I used to take 1gram/day for about 2 years.)

 

[shimazu]

crips and bloods are just two major gangs in the US so yeah if you saw that South Park episode with Jimmy and Timmy then you got it

theyre fucking stupid thh and its more of a west coast thing

I mean, theyre everywhere but at least where Im at its not really something that people walk around bragging about

Gangs in general are pretty stupid

but to not derail here Id never go into rehab, dont they mark you down as a past abuser on your medical records from then on or something? That would be obnoxious

 

[Effect]

I've been to a detox once and I've done two different Intensive OutPatient programs. Even with the subutex in detox I still ended up getting the chills and cold sweats especially at night. I had such a difficult time sleeping on a couple nights when they wouldn't give me any clonazepam and the fact that my bed sheets were soaked in sweat didnt help.

It takes me a few days to adjust to the buprenorphine. I honestly am thinking that methadone would be a better option for detox.

 

[serenafails]

I went to a residential program for 4 months.. at my intervention they told me it would be a month.. yeah fucking right.

It ended up being a complete scam, and I don't know how my parents didn't research it more, but it was a ploy to get people to convert to scientology when they're at a vulnerable point and for $35k I thought it would be some fancy place that treated you well.. wrong, I detoxed in a log cabin without anything to help except huge amounts of vitamins, like 20 multi vitamins a day and mind exercises to get your mind off of it.

Then we did this bullshit called TRs where you get to sit completely still without moving for 2 hours straight, if you mess up you get to start over. And another exercise was you have to sit completely still without changing facial movements while someone yells in your face and does stupid shit like uses props to look like there doing you're drug of choice in your specific ROA and also brings up all your insecurities and you have to deal with it.

Then after that you have to sit in a sauna for five hours a day and ingest huge amounts of vitamins, minerals, calcium and magnesium and mass amounts of water and take up to 5000 mg of niacin a day to "clean out your system", bullshit, everything they give you in that part makes you super sick and it's all really bad for you ad it's been proven by doctors. And absolutely no doctors or nurses worked at the place, like they said they would. I was only in the sauna part of the program for 17 days, but some other people were in there for 60+.

The entire place is run by ex addicts that graduated recently, and in other facilities ran by the same system the staff members trade drugs for sex from the female patients, and it was clear that the staff members were using drugs and a lot of the patients were getting drugs sent to them in the mail. Every single thing they taught us there was taken from scientology, and the entire time they denied that it was connected in anyway and if you brought up the fact, which I did a lot, they refereed to me as "Miss Scientology", and the STAFF MEMBERS talked shit about me and were extremely rude,and you would had to do heavy manual labor, a few times I had to rake and pull weeds in poison ivy and they didn't even care.

Obviously I used on the drive back to my hometown, my boyfriend came to my graduation and brought me somas. Like a week later I shot up heroin for the first time. Great success story right?

I have a lot of beef with the place, obviously, google Narconon, there's been threads about it before, like way in the past. There's actually a report on it on Rock Center tomorrow, I'm pretty stoked for it.

 

[xenon787]

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[xenon787]

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[AlphaMethylPhenyl]

Never been. My use got the worst in the middle of high school. Right now I'm totally legal and not looking back.

 

[Psychlone Jack]

twice in NC.

I've seen about 4 or 5 people leave in handcuffs, probably 70 people get kicked out, gotten high probably 10 times in inpatient

One guy I knew died & another had a heart attack/triple bypass surgery who then almost got kicked out homeless & broke because he couldn't work for the place & bring in monies .
The craziest thing I saw was when our intake guy brought in 3 paid clients at once, convinced the house to take him to Walmart, then split with $9000. He got tracked to a hotel room that night & ran off with $300 and no shoes haha.

So you went to TROSA too huh? Lol

I've been to three inpatient rehabs, with a total of 26 months between them.

 

[Znegative]

I've gone to multiple inpatients, outpatients (intensive), detoxes, and one 1/2 way house. I didn't learn much of anything except how to abuse new drugs as well as how to lie better. I apologize for being so cynical-my experiences don't mean that treatment programs can't be useful for others, I've just been unlucky.

 

[Illyria99]

Inpatient...too many times to count. Didn't help one fucking bit. A complete waste of my time.

 

[curlygurl1980]

Hey there just thought i would tell u I have been to rehab 4 times and detox twice. I've tried the steps faith based u name it and although I think na is fantastic for some people I think I am just one of these people who at least sometimes I'm gonna get high. Meth and opiates r. My doc but at this point i can NOT do meth at all bc i go into a psychosis overtime hell due to my meth use i have some major mental shit goin on sober sorry i am rambling my longest stay in rehab was
7months i got. High two weeks after i got out but anyways just wanted to add that

 

[RaZkaL86]

Geez, in the time I've been using heroin I must have been in detox around 10 or 15 times, no joke...you're only allowed three times in a year and up till '09 I must've gone three times a year...It wasn't one of those 35 or 50 thousand dollar a stay places, basically the sixth floor of a hospital where you're locked up there 6 or sometimes 7 days...I loved it except the fuckin 10 or so meetings a day you had to attend and they would have to take you out to the roof for "smoke breaks" since they confiscate your smokes and anything else considered contraband. Other than that it's just sleeping and piggin' out they feed you good there and you get the choice of detoxing with methadone or clonidine(always methadone for me). They start you off @ 30mg then lower it 5 each day till you hit 5mg then 2.5 then OUT!!! I always went there to chill a while get my head straight but as soon as I hit Springfield, it's knock-knock, hey what's up...just got out, gimme three or whatever...haha didn't waste any time...

 

[subutex_junkie]

At 17 years old I was sent to an inpatient juvenile rehab program (No detox) by the juvenile court system for continuously failing drug tests for weed, opiates and an occasionally various other drugs. I went to a 90 day program where I had to go to school, drug dependence education classes and live in foster care and I also couldn't smoke cigarettes. It was kind of a bitch having to live with a bunch of other teenage addicts and a foster parent who was kind of a dick but I adjusted to it all eventually and I managed to smoke still too. I got through it with the help of a girlfriend in the program with me and I just pretended like I wanted to stay sober the whole time so I wouldn't be kept longer but they could tell that I wasn't too serious about it. It was an alright program but it didn't help the 1 person from the same place that I still talk to either, I personally relapsed on weed like a week after getting out and then on opiates like 3 weeks after getting out. I kept getting high on probation but I hid it and I was 17, almost 18 so my P.O. and the judge let me off of probation within like 2 months of getting out of rehab. Let's just say I had morphine and a bunch of weed saved for the day the judge finally said I was free and I still use drugs to this day so yeah... not much of an impact was made on me by being forced into a rehab.