Your monitoring program allow whipits?

[RNdynamic]

Does your monitoring program allow you to use whipits? I will confess to using whipits during monitoring. For those who don't know, they aren't addictive.

Do you, or have you ever used, whip its? Does your monitoring program forbid them?

[dirtyhippiegirl, BSN, RN]

Question to the OP.. you said you are in a monitoring program. . . What state are in? Most programs don't allow you to work as a float or in the ICU while in monitoring. How did you get around that? How are you able to pass narc's?

You can work ICU (and nights!) in Kansas. :)

[SororAKS, ADN, RN]

I doubt mine would, and I don't see myself asking. The first thing I thought was HUH?

[poppycat, ADN, BSN]

I doubt mine would, and I don't see myself asking. The first thing I thought was HUH?

When I first saw this post, I thought the OP was asking about dogs & just didn't know how to spell whippet. I couldn't understand what dogs had to do with monitoring programs.

[angelmomjr]

cayenne,

Apparently you are not one of us. ANY KIND OF MOOD ALTERING substance starts the never ending spiral to addiction. None of us can use "recreational" substances, because it leads us to jail, institutions and death. Addiction to substances is a DISEASE that has to be approached and treated as a chronic disease. Don't feel sorry for us. But to maintain sobriety we have to be vigilante to health care professionals that are not educated in this disease.

[mrsjonesRN]

I have never even heard of doing this..wow the world comes up with new ways to get high every day.

[Farawyn]

I have never even heard of doing this..wow the world comes up with new ways to get high every day.

I wish this was new.

I've seen people do it and promptly fall down a flight of stairs head first. This was the 80s.

It's been around longer than that.

[mrsjonesRN]

I wish this was new.

I've seen people so it and promptly fall down a flight of stairs head first. This was the 80s.

It's been around longer than that.

Really?? I can't believe I've never heard of this! It must not be as popular where I live. Or people just don't talk about it..

[Farawyn]

Really?? I can't believe I've never heard of this! It must not be as popular where I live. Or people just don't talk about it..

Well, many brain cells are killed doing this, so maybe they just don't know...

It's ugly.

[cayenne06, MSN, CNM]

cayenne,

Apparently you are not one of us. ANY KIND OF MOOD ALTERING substance starts the never ending spiral to addiction. None of us can use "recreational" substances, because it leads us to jail, institutions and death. Addiction to substances is a DISEASE that has to be approached and treated as a chronic disease. Don't feel sorry for us. But to maintain sobriety we have to be vigilante to health care professionals that are not educated in this disease.

Right. I have worked with drug dependent patients for long enough to have an idea of the issue, although I have been fortunate not to struggle with addiction myself.

Vigilant sobriety is important for those of us who struggle with chemical dependency. But most drug users are not addicts, and will remain casual users.

I certainly do not mean to dismiss the struggles of addiction and maintaining sobriety, not at all. I was only speaking to the poster who said "Only an idiot would do this. Or any method to get high" Because that is just not true. Drug addicts are not idiots, and neither are casual users. There is a reason humans (and other animals) seek out chemical euphoria. It is a behavior that has potential for harm, but nonetheless it is an understandable drive. Using drugs and/or becoming dependent on them is not a reflection of your intelligence or moral worth.