HoldenC

Hey everyone, I want to be honest here. I work for one of the monitoring programs. I would love to hear your input. I am always researching and found this forum a long long time ago and it has truly impacted how I feel about the toll/burden/stress and onward these programs put on people. I am not here to hurt/catch anyone and never have been -just want to make that clear. I respect this as an anonymous forum like I respect my participants confidentially without question. My my question is what can we do to help? What can we do differently? I have read many posts here about people feeling they did not need monitoring - or at least not 5 years. Tell me I care and want to hear. Finally, as an employee of one of these programs I often struggle with feeling intrusive relating to simple things in a participants life that I need documentation for. How can we become more of a partner and less of a weight/burden? How can programs be more supportive?

I have learned all poppy seeds can vary significantly in strength. Theoretically if it comes out that you tested positive for morphine you should insit/demand that the specimen be tested for thebaine. If thebaine is present they can not rule it as a true positive but likely due to ingestion of a food containing poppy seeds. To give you a heads up the test is not cheap - it's even more expensive if it goes for confirmation testing. $600 plus. I hope you're negative and don't have to go through that. I know the wait time from the lab takes up to a month for that test. They have to send it out to speciality lab. Ironically, it's the only time you want an "unexpected" positive. Hoping the best for you. Let us know what happens As you said you are fine. You don't need to cause yourself excess worry. I know that is easy for me to say but know there is testing that can be done that can confirm you innocence if need be. You'll be getting out successfully

I am floored at their policy change and so sorry that you are dealing with that. It is ridiculous and wrong. If you feel comfortable answering what program are you in? Just curious. And You do not deserve to be made to feel like trash. You are worth so much and are doing the all right things. My only thought is contact your case manager and contact your testing coordinator (affinity, recoverytrek, first lab ect.) request testing sites in that location. I've heard and know it's been done before outside of the US. If they are kind they won't select you for testing - just checking in