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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?

Oh Wow. I’ve moved forward since I posted this, letting go of things I can’t control. It would definitely be something special to find out I have a warrant out for my arrest though.

Personally, I would borrow $347 to have the other vial sent off and tested. What drug were you accused of Diverting? Having to pay for treatment eval and 5 years of monitoring is a lot more than $347.

Did there end up being a question on the renewal for you to check? I have a friend in the same position.

Hi! Sorry you are going through this, it is tough, but doable. I'm assuming VDAP is a monitoring program? Typically, they will tell you to not work a job using your license until the board has completed their investigation, if they have said this to you, I would follow that. It took the board in Virginia years to contact me after my investigation was complete. I have seen all kinds of advice on this site. From my view, I've never known of a person to go to rehab that doesn't have some kind of alcohol use disorder. You could get a lawyer and try to fight the board if you have a couple thousand dollars laying around, but at the end of the day, the fact that you have been to rehab is the exact reason you need to be in monitoring, not the reason you don't need monitoring, I would easily assume the board will feel the same way. The sooner you start, the sooner you finish. Good luck! And hey, at least you have the rehab part out of the way!

I read where someone said about every 3 months. I’ve already had one and I’ve been in monitoring less than a month.

Wow! I’ve had 4 tests so far, 3 of them have been specialty. 2 urine, 1 blood. Been in LESS than a month.

Wow. I’m surprised no one responded to this, what was the outcome of your false positive peth test??

I had someone comment that they got blood tested about once every 3 months, give or take.

Thank you so much for taking the time out of your day to write all of this out for me. I really appreciate it. At this point I’m not even sure that I want to be a nurse anymore, I haven’t worked as an RN in 2 years (we have a family business), I’m still trying to figure out if want to keep my options open for a future in nursing, obviously leaning towards yes. I don’t have an issue with being clean and sober, as it is MY choice and I will continue on MY sobriety journey with or without a monitoring program hanging over my head. My issue is with the costs and stresses and worries that are associated with being in a program that I feel has already set me up to fail. I have yet to feel the HPMP wants me to succeed. These feelings have been completely validated after reading some of the horror stores on these threads. Did you feel this way as well? I have decided to move forward with the evaluation and monitoring, give it 100%, and hope that is enough. It has been quite some time since my “incident”, so I have been able to process a lot of the wrong choices I made and have been able to give myself grace, while also taking the steps to better myself. Thank you for for reminding me that my mistakes don’t define me, I definitely could have saved a lot of tough treatment on myself if I had spoken with people like you that have gone through similar things sooner. Hopefully someone else is able to read this and it will help them as well. Again, thank you, thank you. A lot of nerves have been settled. I am sending love and light right back to ya!

My cost is $2,800 as well, I am staying at the facility and it’s 4 days of testing. Can you recall if the hair follicle test checked for alcohol? Or was was that done on the blood test or urine? I won’t have any drugs show up in hair for the 6 months, but I may have alcohol use that I don’t want to disclose. It has been a while so it won’t show up in blood, but curious about the hair. Do you have any tips to share about the experience? I’m hoping to get the least amount of time in monitoring as possible. It’s so costly. Thank you so much!