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Well, the short answer is that not going to rehab may cost you your life.
I think that’s the whole contrast of options that makes it so that people sometimes pay lot of money to get well.
I had one friend who looked at low cost / affordable rehab centers when she needed to get heroin rehabilitation. (Mom, get off my blog, yes, I have friends who sometimes use drugs recreationally while sniffing paint fumes.)
My mom sometimes likes to read my blog.
Anyway. She got good treatment. She didn’t have a suite to herself, or a view of the coast, and they didn’t bring her freshly baked croissants, but the counselor she saw was this extremely intuitive, highly trained young thing, just getting her start, but properly licensed, etc. They really connected and she was able to make a lot of progress in just a month. It’s like — if you have a headache, you might not need to get that shiny Advil tablet that has two-tone color treatment and a “gel coating” — you might need 600 mg of Ibuprofen in the form of a white tablet with no branding.
I love my Advil. So, I’m not advocating that people should do without what they like, or even their more demanding preferences. I just think it’s important to realize quality is available at all different echelons of the marketplace.
Don’t think that you can’t get care just because you’re not richy rich. Also, don’t think that you can’t get care because you don’t have good insurance. Did you ever try to make lemonade with one hand? That’s what it’s like for most people dealing with insurance. What you need is a juicer. Which is – a professional to help you navigate the red-tape.
I hope this gives you hope. And inspires you to go to crack rehab.
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