Self reporting? Please help

SheelaDavis · Oct 25, 2025

For starters, let's be honest with one another. Your clean date is not 10/10/2021. Your clean date was "earlier this year, in March" your words as you said you had a drinking problem this year, and you have stated you recently drank again, so your clean date is far from Oct of 2021. You stated you continued to drink since Oct 2021 which you desribed as your clean date. In summary, you've never really been clean. You've substituted a drug chemical addiction for an alcohol addiction. You can't do that. Addicts are addicts. Thats taught in recovery. If you have an alcohol problem and never had a drug problem, you can't do drugs after fixing the alcohol problem and vice versa. Addiction doesn't work that way, so I wanted to get that clear not just for you, but for anyone reading this forum.

Now, the BON part of your question. I would not self report and here is why. You stated you "foolishly drank more than one." Do you realize how alarming that statement is? You are an alcoholic. You can't drink one. Yes, people relapse and we get back on the wagon if we do, but you don't seem to understand that......its not OK to simply drink one. You seem to perceive the standard is drinking one as being fine, but drinking more than one is when its considered a slip or flaw. That's flawed thinking for an alcoholic. It's totally different for someone who is Not an alcoholic. That means....you can't drink at all, not one, ever. The standard dor all alcoholics is Zero drinks for an alcoholic, not "one."

They will extend your monitoring whether you self report or not IF you test positive. I absolutely DO wish you the best and you need to get back into sobriety. For any non alcoholics reading this, trust me.....you do NOT understand. I know, you sre thinking....."you are harsh." I am being honest and truthful and that saves lives with alcoholics and that is critical. Yes, I am being compassionate for your plight and hope and pray you get back into sobriety because you CAN DO This. You have got this, but you have got to understand the basics of recovery and alcoholism and addiction my friend.

Those basic are......if you are a drug addict or addicted to Anything, it means you have a dopamine seeking problem (just like me). This means if addicted to drugs, you can't simply drink alcohol after getting off of drugs. Cross addiction or substitution is real and its in every recovery 101 textbook. If you are a gambling addict and you get that fixed, don't start looking at porn, etc. The ease with which you can be addicted is Alarmingly easier compared to a non addict/non SUD person. If you are an alcoholic such as yourself, there is no such thing as simply "only drinking one." That hasn't worked in thr history of humankind for any alcoholic. You will ALWAYS have a "slip" at some point where you drink "more than one." Thst becomes 2, then 4, then more. The answer is, there is no ONE drink. You don't drink at all, period.

The BON WILL extend your monitoring if you self report or if you test positive, so its the same outcome either way. If you self report or test positive, they will allow you one slip, but your monitoring time now starts all over, so if your consent aggreement was 5 years, it will start all over from the very day youbtest positive or self report. After this event, If you drink again after this event and get caught, they are likely to suspend or possibly revoke your license and your career is over. You can't drink...at all, not one. You are playing not just with your career, but with your life.

With all of the above. If you test positive, be honest, stay in the program, don't drink, accept sobriety, go to meetings, you keep your license, you finish the monitoring program, you have a happy life as a nurse. You absolutely Can and Will do this. You are more than strong enough! Don't be discouraged. Throw away shame. From thr moment you read this, you are Sober. Stay sober.

Healer555 · Oct 25, 2025

One could keep quiet, drink tons of water and hope for the best. You should refrain from alcohol going forward

Nursinaround0123 · Oct 30, 2025

From what I gather on here and on reddit option 1 isn't testing for ETG, metabolite of alcohol, so you don't have to worry. And looking at ETG calculators online after 86 hours or so you should test negative if you've had alcohol. Just depends on how many drinks you had, your weight and when you stopped drinking

Healer555 · Oct 30, 2025

Nursinaround0123 said:

From what I gather on here and on reddit option 1 isn't testing for ETG, metabolite of alcohol, so you don't have to worry. And looking at ETG calculators online after 86 hours or so you should test negative if you've had alcohol. Just depends on how many drinks you had, your weight and when you stopped drinking

But they can add tests to a given panel

SheelaDavis · Oct 30, 2025

Nursinaround0123 said:

From what I gather on here and on reddit option 1 isn't testing for ETG, metabolite of alcohol, so you don't have to worry.

Careful and no offense, but thats dangerous info you just gave. Because a certain option does not contain that drug or alcohol does not mean you aren't being tested for it. There is something called add ons that case managers routinely do, and the monitoring program is allowed by contract (with recov trek or affinty, etc) to do a certain amount of free add ons in addition to the option you are selected for. For example, selected for option one and you think alcohol is not being tested for. The case manager does an "add on" for Etg and that happens regularly in monitoring programs. Add ons are very common and the nurse Never knows the add on was done........unless they test positive.

Healer555 said:

But they can add tests to a given panel

Happens all of the time and my case manager told me that up front. Common add ons are Etg, Neurontin, Lyrica, Benadryl.

Universe93B · Nov 4, 2025

"more than 1" is how many drinks? If you drank 2, your ETG test would still be negative. Maybe even negative for more.