Seriously?! Grrrr.

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I just need to complain for one second... why do I always get picked to test on my day off?! I have 3 small children, 2 of which I have to get watched now so I can go pee in a cup. The oldest is in pre-school. Ugh, so annoying. Bonus... it's in the teens here in Texas so its freezing balls outside.

Yes, there are places I can go to later this evening but I refuse to pay an additional $20-$30 for a collection fee when I'm already paying $55 to piss.

Sorry, rant over. Have a great day everyone!

Two Peths in a month don't even make sense from a monitoring standpoint. That's just harassment

I know, 15 days apart....what? I will not let them get me down though.

Way to go Kel!!!! They keep knocking us down and some of us keep getting up. This program has nothing to do with recovery. It's simple Darwinism. Nurses who can finance and tolerate this repeated nonsense probably make it unless a false positive or breaking an unknown rule does them in. I'm sure many good nurses and probably most with actual severe addiction issues who these programs should be trying to help simply don't make it. Make it Kel. You are worth it. Hang tough and don't let these dirtbags see you sweat

Thank you. I woke up to the second peth feeling persecuted and felt a tug at my self esteem. Next thought was no, not going there. Sober two years. They can't take that, my self esteem or my hope away. Part of me wonders if that's not the point of the barrage of texting. "Let's see if we broke her and she took a drink". SIGH.

Dirt. Bags.

But peths are a 3 week look back. Right? So why on earth, how on earth, could they justify two in one month?

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But peths are a 3 week look back. Right? So why on earth, how on earth, could they justify two in one month?

You are looking for logic...they only...I say again...ONLY CARE ABOUT THE MONEY...P is big money!!! One only needs look as far as them touting the "big book" of aa mumbo jumbo as science...c'mon...logic???

Malamud is right!!! Whatever good this process once had has been shanghaied by moneyed interests. For example, you know what the length of my rehab stay was determined by? Not my counselors, doctors, monitors or much less me but by my insurance company. The crazy fees we pay for a drug test are nutz. How about just do a urine dip at the ridiculous weekly meetings we gotta attend. Speaking of those meetings I figure they cost about $300 per hour to have a dozen nurses stare at each other once a week. This is a money machine. Period

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The ******** money vacuuming fraud that masqueraded as a rehab that I did not belong in claimed "individualized treatment." Yeah, no. Same junk, every poor schmuck that was stuck there, unless they were making stuff up as they went along because they needed something done that one of the "staff" couldn't manage. P testing? Urine dip. Nothing more. Except humiliating as all get out to have to pee in front of these dirt bags.

The IOP (which frankly was nothing more than a repeat of the ‘inpatient' garbage, talk about stupid and boring and more useless than the first round, if that was possible.) Naturally, the only acceptable IOP program was the one they offered. Same thing...urine dip.

The NSG meetings...around here, the money is paid to the facilitator, usually around $50 a month, I've had $80 once (I've moved around and changed groups a bit). You figure 8-9 people. Facilitator is making $400 a month to chatter with people for an ahour a week and some run more than one group. Not a bad gig if you've drank this Kool aid I guess.

We pay $25 a week for our hour of detention. Yours is a bargain in comparison. The next time I get in trouble I'll do it in the sunshine state. Ha!!! Just kidding. Id never do this again. Wally World for me

I wonder how I could just wire my bi-monthly pay check to Austin. A urine last Wednesday and the Thursday before that. A PETH last Thursday, day after urine. And ringing in the 1st of February with another urine. No scientific sense to this frequency since all my tests are ETG

Yep no sense to it since a PETH would have covered all three tests plus. Money grubbing and harassment that's all

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