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Yeah, he did let me know he didn't have a diagnosis and he wasn't going to recommend treatment. It took a few weeks after he did the evaluation for my intake manager to tell me that they had to contact my PO and the following week they told me I was ineligible. They meet to review cases on Thursdays.

Yes, even if the evaluator does not have a diagnosis, they can try to do it. They followed up with my PO even after my evaluator said I did not have a dx and did not recommend tx and after she told them all my tests were clean and I got early release, they deemed me ineligible for the program. I talked to another person who they tried to make go through it without a diagnosis as well, but his lawyer fought it and he got out of it.

I'm in metro Detroit. My lawyer was Aaron Kemp with Chapman Law Group. The retainer was $3500 and I was refunded the $1800 that did didn't end up using from the retainer, but obviously a lot of variables factor in to how much you would actually pay. They will give you three people that would do your evaluation and the lawyer looks at the records they have on file in regard to who has the best outcome (read: doesn't dx AUD and refer to treatment) and will encourage you to go with that evaluator, so it could be different for everyone.

My best advice is to retain a lawyer who has experience with this. He told me who to pick to do the evaluation and how to answer the evaluation questions and the HPRP found no active AUD diagnosis so I didn't have to go through the program. The evaluator did make me provide one reference (I gave him my friend), but after they met to review his assessment, they wanted to confirm with my PO that I had been discharged from probation early and had passed all tests. After they got confirmation from her was when they called and told me I don't have to go through the program. Hope this helps.

Hi MIRN, I was deemed ineligible for HPRP after being referred due to an OWI. I don't know your circumstances, but I would recommend hiring a lawyer. They will help coach you and tell you the evaluator who is most likely to not recommend tx.

Hi Everyone, I've been doing a lot of research online and it looks like there are quite a few people who have had to go through the HPRP process. I got a DUI over a year ago and LARA reported it, so I now have to go through the evaluation process (was just given a list of potential evaluators). I was wondering if anyone who has gone through this has any recommendations. Thank you in advance.