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It is in our contract that we submit forms monthly by the 10th. They can absolutely kick you out of the program for not abiding by the contract. How many times was she late?? The forms are super annoying to fill out, but only take me 15 minutes or less to complete and they are required. They are very diligent with warning letters for these types of things. I can't imagine her being kicked out if she was putting in effort and communicating? But I have seen some crazy things happen. Hopefully she can take the necessary steps to get back in the program.

From what I am aware, you will not be able to return to practice until you are completely off of Suboxone for a certain period of time. Once you are done with treatment you can usually return to work after 3 months, however, if you are taking Suboxone, your time will not start until you are off of the drug. As most people will agree "Suboxone isn't sober". Comment above seems to be confusing naltrexone and Suboxone.

I have never had a positive screen, but I know from other people in the program that what they say goes. You can get a lawyer and try to fight them, but that will just leave you out of more money, added stress, and more lost time from work. I did a 4 day assessment at Farley Center in Williamsburg, I believe it was $3K at the time, would recommend. They ended up recommending 6 weeks of inpatient treatment for me, I wasn't being honest with them or myself at the time and they are good at their jobs. With a relapse they might not recommend inpatient. However, they will be looking through everything in your life, you need to have a sponsor and be working a 12 step program, if you aren't/haven't been, they will find out and most likely recommend more treatment. HPMP wants you sober and working the steps, if you aren't, it can catch up to you. Let me know if you have any other questions. Good luck!

Blood tests look back 12 weeks for alcohol. Urine tests can be for a lot. Benadryl, pseudoephedrine, Kratom, etc.

I know this is for the OP, but figured I’d chime in too. From what I know from others in the program, as well as personal experience, they will try hard to find a way to make you take it. You may want a certain job, and they will tell you you cant have it without taking it. You may even get away with not taking it for a period of time, after your psych Dr says they are comfortable with you coming off of it. Then you might want to travel, and they can tell you no, unless you are on naltrexone, again, even though you were on it for a period of time and have been successful off of it for a longer period of time. The only way I know to not have to take it is if you have a medical reason and it is approved by someone on their list of Doctors. It does say in the handbook that they recommend it before returning to work, and while they can’t force you to take it, they can easily not allow you to work because you are not taking it. Every case can be a little different though, these are just my and some people that I knows experiences. Good luck.

Ahh. Your program must not allow you to see results. I honestly don’t even look anymore, if there is a problem, they will let us know. I have had repeated dilute urines, it is very frustrating.

When you log in, if you go to “my profile” tab, at the bottom of that page it says “test selection history”. When I click that I get a list of tests I’ve taken, date, result, and cost.

You aren’t the only one who had a PETH on the 3rd. I recently won the “random” lottery and got to get a $229 haircut, where they cut chunks of hair out of the back of my head to the size of “two index fingers”. Not to mention, I just had that done not to long ago during my “eval”. I am fully compliant, but riding a fine line when it comes to keeping some sanity. Also riding a fine line of throwing in the towel on my license, I need to keep working for probably another year, and hopefully I feel different when the time comes, but as of right now, the towel is going in a large fire. Should probably go call my sponsor now…..

YAY!

Ahh, yes. This sounds like something I heard from someone while I was in treatment. I am hoping that I have a pretty solid recovery foundation and fellowship by the time my 5 years is up.

Congrats! How does it feel?

I was under the impression that ER will report to the board if they are aware you are a nurse? Also, did your friend hit the pen too? Weed pens are no joke, they can send you right into a crazy panic attack if you can’t handle it. Maybe it was a DMT vape pen? We’re you tripping? Don’t report anything to anyone.

So much conflicting information out there on this question. Please keep us posted! Hoping for a negative result. Personally, one glass of wine does not seem worth the possibility of having to stop working and go to treatment, so to answer your question honestly, I’d have to say yes, you messed up, but hopefully you’ll be negative and have a new lesson learned.

Search my posts! I asked the same question and another member answered and the eval turned out to be pretty much what she wrote back. My eval ended up requiring me to go to residential treatment for 8 weeks. It was quite the blow, but by the time the 8 weeks were done, I felt grateful and felt like it was a great investment in myself. Any idea where you are going for the eval?