Posted on 06/26/2017 6:24:14 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
To fully appreciate the money flowing into addiction treatment, consider the size of the bill Tara Richards ran up during a five-month attempt to achieve sobriety at a rehab center in San Clemente — $416,050. --SNIP-- “There are nonprofit treatment centers that cost $53,000 a month, while good senior care can cost $4,000 a month. What’s the other $49,000 paying for?” asked Horvath. “It’s not like you’re using an MRI or an X-ray machine. It’s a bed, food and usually minimally-educated therapists. I’m really confused. Where’s the money going? No one has been able to show me.”
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“Where you been? Haven’t seen you around for a while.”
“I was in rehab.”
“OMG! How awesome is that? Can you recommend the place for me?”
Gold stars all around for having the courage to face your issues.
I knew this from all the commercials advertising “addiction treatment at little or no cost to you.”
To save your life, of course.
Drug companies are REQUIRED to fund drug treatment by federal law.
How is this for a sweet little laundering scheme?
Save your money & go to church!
The "health care" debate is all about an endless money grab, has nothing to do with health.
Rehab is a racket. It’s a revolving door, very few people actually get cured, and should you dare suggest otherwise you “want people to die of their addictions.”
I’ll take my AA meetings any day.
Interesting! And the group that’s been at it the longest and has the highest success ratio with drug and alcohol addiction charges absolutely nothing.
Some company called, the passages of malibu, advertises itself as a rehab joint.
It looks so fine and lavish i want to go there for vacation.
If only they served Buffalo Trace.
AA is free and works better than treatment centers.
As a friend of Bill I have to agree and the exact group I was hinting at in my above post.
I don’t know how AA is funded but I presume you aren’t costing taxpayers 20k per year. Coming from a line of alcoholics I have to be careful. All I have to go on is a record of sobriety which I don’t keep track of, but it’s been 10 years or so and even that event was a one-off.
It is fully self funded. Not a dime comes from any outside entity.
I consulted in Higher Ed for about 5 min. I was one of a very few people on campus staff+faculty who wasn't gobbling prescription drugs by the handful. Happy pills, mostly, but plenty of painkillers and amphetamines too.
Sez me, you can't take OxyContin "as needed" forever, and will need to get dried out sooner or later.
If you really want to get clean and sober you can do it in a church basement for a dollar a day.
If you don't really want to get clean and sober a 500,000 dollar rehab will not help you one bit.
(Clean and sober 25+ years using the dollar-in-a-basket method)
I imagine your insurance company has to cover this (which really means we all pay for it) under Obamacare. Part of the plan all along I am sure.
Thanks, that’s what I thought they did.
“Sie mussen gehen in rehab.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igfRYtwpQyU
*more precisely:
“Dazu müssen Sie zur Rehabilitation gehen”
FOB also.
How many people have you seen that describe two three or more trips to very expensive rehab with no positive result other than meeting cool people?
These facilities only publish very meaningless “recovery” statistics based on short term abstinence. And, how many of their successes are people who attend AA following treatment but credit is claimed by the referring rehab center.
I don’t know a single person who went to rehab without AA and maintained sobriety. And, certanly not “recovery.”
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