Confidential Drug Rehabilitation

Question by Chris: Doesn’t forcing someone into drug rehab just creat an opportunity for them to make new drug connections?
My friend was threatened with the option of going into drug rehab or jail.

Like jail, isn’t drug rehab just exposing you to more unsavory characters?

The only reason he was sent to rehab was because he was drug-tested and they found weed in his system. I know some doctors/lawyers who smoke pot often.

Best answer:

Answer by Clara Casey
He’s probably alot safer in rehab than he would be in prison.

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Question by drbubbles24: Energy drinks – Have you relapsed in AA/NA/CA recovery if you regularly drink them?
I find this to be a controversial topic in the 12-step recovery community. Some say No because its not a traditional drug or because they do not cause the same harm as narcotics or alcohol. Some say Yes because its a mind-altering substance and in fact tell their sponsees that to drink them means picking up a white (newcomers) chip. Then there are others who are middle of road who feel its not a relaspe but something to be mindful of. I welcome all advise and opinons

Best answer:

Answer by raysny
It’s splitting hairs. How about coffee? Sugar? Cigarettes? These are AA staples.

And what about psych meds? Bill Wilson took medication for his depression; Wilson even experimented with LSD trying to re-create his white light experience, thinking others could use it for the same thing.

Did you join AA to quit energy drinks? No? Then tell the person to quit taking YOUR inventory, and worry about himself.

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you know, there are the type of people who have issues becauyse of lost parents, or divorces, or fucked up childhoods, but their personality is pretty good and they are still good with people except they may be more vulnerable to alcoholism and drugs

then theres me. a guy who is so extremely sensitive and defensive, like i have these fucking sensitive ass SENSORS that just go off and i get all crazy when someone i care about says something about me that makes me feel bad. low self esteem. i have issues where i dont have normal conversation skills or relationships because of this. I RATHER have the first type of “issues” i talked about above because at least that person can have normal relationships and be liked without hiding.

i find myself hiding from reality more and more each day, i have these issues taht are tearing me apart. i went counseling for a few months and it didnt help that much. im trying to convert to buddhism but its so difficult. every day it gets worse and worse
i dont know what to do anym,ore, i think im going down a very destructive and dark path, i dont want to be like this nemore. why cant i just take what people have to say about me and NOT CARE? isnt it so simple? why must i avoid these people and cut ties with them because of an incident? why am i so easily hurt… i need help……..
greed why would u say taht just keep out of it if u dont have anything to say

u are an ass ho
im 24 yrs old
hey nick what u said really helped i was wondering if i can get ur email and mabybe u can teach me some more tricks to open up to people or to handle critisism

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I am aware of the Hippa laws and regulations. I know someone who is addicted to pain killers. They have been for around 6 years. Their life has spiraled in an out of control, downward motion. This person has two children who they can’t take care of because of the situation. They always go into mood swings and fits of rage, especially when they can’t get any medicine. They were admitted into the hospital, and treated for depression, and have been there for 4 days. Is there any way that anyone knows of that I may be able to talk to the Dr’s and let them know that 4 days is not long enough to treat her addiction “without the Dr’s being able to tell her what was said.” Maybe then, they would look farther and help her more. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. I have agonized over what to do, and I just don’t know what the right thing is.

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I drink as much as I can, I am a young mother, my children our young, I have found a treatment facility that includes your children in your recovery, but since I have been AMAZING at hiding my alcoholism, all of my family and friends keep telling me that I could probably stop with “outpatients” or “you do not need to stop drinking entirely, you are fun to drink with”, the catch 22 is these are the same people who tell me, when I am openly drunk around them, that I “shouldnt drink so much” or
“you cant handle your alcohol” or you are a “mean drunk”, I know what they say is true, but the thing is, I CANNOT STOP DRINKING! even when I try, I cannot, I feel that. for my children, I should get help, and not to feel ashamed, since in the long run, they are going to be much happier, but I have everyone around me, in a sense, criticizing me for wanting to get this help! I am confused, I know I do not tell them all, but I still feel that they should see I am asking for help, and embrace it, ??

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Look at this:
Writing in the journal Pediatrics, the CDC team said they analyzed data from 15,214 high-school students (aged 14 to 18) who completed the 2003 Youth Risk Behavior Survey.

They found that 45 percent of the students admitted having drunk alcohol in the past month. Of these, 64 percent were binge-drinkers.

And the binge drinkers were not simply experimenting — 69 percent reported having done so more than once in the past 30 days.

Teen drinkers in general were more than twice as likely to be sexually active as non-drinkers, the researchers found.
here is one of the sources:http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070102/hl_nm/teens_drinking_dc

So why wast time (and our tax money) arresting them and hiding marijuana from them, when we have a drug that is hurting some of the teens who abuse it?

I sense a lack of parenting. People are so close minded nowadays.

Aaron

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Okay, so hold on to your seats…

In April, my wife decided she did not want to be with me any more. She said she wasn’t happy, and needed to be happy with herself before she could be happy with anyone else. She took our son and went to her parents house.

From then until August we were either fighting or not talking to each other. I had suspicions that she was cheating on me, although she would deny them and made me start to feel like I was crazy for thinking the things I thought. She was seeing a counselor and a psychologist for her issues, and I was seeing a counselor as well.

In late August, she brought our son back to stay with me. She then told me that she had been diagnosed as being clinically depressed. She also told me that she had been cutting herself and was bulimic since before we were together (5+ years). This was incredibly shocking to me, but we talked and I told her I still loved her very much and supported her.

Fast forward to a few days ago. She calls me and tells me that she has been having an affair for the last few months. I was incredibly furious, and we fought about it for quite some time. Then it turns out shes been kicked out of her parents house, and shes now living with the guy shes been seeing. He’s a jobless, car-less drug addict who lives with his sister.

She was kicked out of her house because she refuses to attend an in-patient rehabilitation program her therapist is recommending. She feels as though living with this scumbag is helping her.

Her parents and I have had enough. We know she’s not telling her therapist everything, because she claims that her therapist told her that her new relationship is just fine. Since I began talking with her parents we’ve all realized that she’s doing nothing but lying to us about everything.

Will I be violating any kind of ethics or doctor patients confidentiality if I contact her therapist and let her know a few things that she probably doesn’t know about her patient.

I know theres a doctor patient confidentiality, and she can’t tell me anything. Her mother is trying to get some kind of access that will allow her to be there for a session, and allow the doctor to notify her if she stops taking her meds or misses an appointment.

We also know she’s not telling everything since the doctor has apparently only recommended an eating disorder outpatient program.

I love me wife, and her family loves her. We just want her to get better for the sake of our son. Can I do this, and does anyone have any advice?? Please help.

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