Keep being told no need for tx

Well I totally agree that this is all BS if the board requires you to do treatment that you don't need. I would suggest that next time you communicate with the board, rather than offering the negative "I've been told I don't need treatment/IOP), you should phrase it in a positive (treatment needed) way: "dr. X has recommended that I enroll is xyz therapy that meets weekly in order to reinforce my sobriety" or something like that. Phrase it as if you are actively doing something rather than declining something else. Does that make sense?

Don't bring up "I know you said I'd need IOP, but...". No "buts", offer the "treatment" that was recommended, that the doctor "thought you would benefit from."

Very wise...very wise. Thank you.

I agree with Recovering. It's seems to be all in how you word it. Its just appalling that these people appear to be forcing you to find some unethical hack that will say you need some ridiculous overblown treatment regimen. Heck, even they don't seem to be able to find an unethical hack to say that. On the other hand, down here in Flori-duh, we abound with unethical hacks.

If this isn't proof that this garbage is all about the money, I don't know what is.

So I went today to purchase work book and again expressed my concerns. That lady isn't budging. She said the program i'd be attending once a week for 12 weeks IS an outpatient program and that I did not need anything intensive. I sure will be back to vent if it is rejected by the Board. It royally makes me sick that I cannot obtain legal counsel.... I mean especially after I started getting feedback from addiction specialists and psychiatrists. Kinda unbelievable that a few nurses (who i thought weren't allowed to make medical diagnoses) at the tip top have the power to throw out the recommendations from trained professionals in addiction medicine. I'm done fussing. I'm taking it all one day at a time and in a positive spirit. I didn't work this hard to rebuild my life to give up or catch a ungrateful attitude now. This is just another consequence of the choices I made through out my twenties. It's part of the process in rebuilding my life. If I just keep focusing on that- and not on how unfair it all is then I'm gonna be alright.

$$$. The 3000 dollars I spent on the evaluation, 300 dollars in gas, and 150 in childcare wiped my savings.

I agree with Recovery_RN. You just don't want to sound resistant to the board. Just change your wording. Instead of saying they said I don't need treatment, say I went to my evaluation and this is what they recommend, I'm signed up to start (date).

I agree, set up a consultation apt. with a lawyer that is familiar with the BON. Mine, that I eventually ended up hiring, talked to me several times on the phone before retaining. Some will even work with you on a payment plan if you did need to retain one, which it kinda sounds like you do.

My insurance paid for the psych evaluation I had to obtain. Did your insurance not cover it?some insurances will help pay for out patient therapy.

Back when this surreal nightmare started for me, I was not given a choice as to where to go for the evaluation. I was given 3 choices of who to go see (and of course they were attached to a treatment facility and had financial interest in what they said on that evaluation). All of them were privately run and either did not take my HMO insurance or took no insurance at all (read $3000 please). Since they naturally 'recommended' (read we have your license by the you know what's so if you ever want to practice again, you'll puke up $30,000 for our joke of a treatment program that you don't really need and is in fact totally inappropriate for you and will do more damage than good because we will ignore your psychiatric needs), I pretty much got hijacked/extorted into raiding parental retirement money. Awesome, huh?

So yeah...if insurance paid for any of this roller coaster to ****, you are a fortunate person indeed.

Indeed. I worked part time waiting tables while going through the nursing program. The business shut down after I completed program. I had worked there for five years and thought the timing was perfect and everything was falling into place. I continued going to school, trying to knock out classes for my ADN, and even for classes that would transfer to my bachelor's at uni. Then the crap hit the fan. Here I am going on seven months later. I have been fortunate to have lived with my mother since having my kid and going to school (finally worked up courage to escape toxic and abusive relationship) and she encouraged me to just go on with my studies while all of this was going on. After I got hit with the "you're going to have to complete a rehab program" I dropped my next registered semester. And I hadn't acquired a job because i really felt frozen about my options because I had no idea wtf was going on. Now that I do have a grasp, I regret dropping the semester....but I can now look into getting some kind of gainful employment seeing as this will be my life for the next 3 months and while I'm monitoring I don't know of any local programs that will accept me. Naturally, there was no insurance to begin with. Heck, there was barely any income. All of which went toward the 500 a month in childcare to get me through a nursing program. This experience has derailed everything I had going in motion.

Ps: I heard my mother talking about remorgaging her home to make what ever happen for me. Which tore me up. This woman makes a little above minimum wage and will have to work until she is physically unable or dies. The thought of her doing that after recovering from bankruptcy herself several years ago broke my heart and I would have refused to have let that happen. Although as a mother myself, i get it.