who here has been to rehab?

Question

if so, where at, and what was your drug of choice?

off shore, actually, just got back a few months ago. same drug

THANK YOU EVERYONE, FOR BEING HONEST. YOU ARE ALL INSPIRATIONAL

Answer 1

3 times yes--I was third time lucky and have been sober for 13 years, thank God. Outpatient was the first in Oshkosh, WI, second Fox Valley Hospital in Green Bay which is now closed. I returned home to booze bottles I had hidden in my apartment. My attitude? "Well, I'm cured and I'll just finish those 12 Steps in a week and everything will be perfect." I was drinking again in two weeks. Third time was in Nova Treatment Center and Terra (halfway) House in Oshkosh, WI. It worked but mostly at that time because I thought, "I'm not going to drink again because I'm not going through all this again." I'm not at all confrontational but one woman counselor there sure was and I could hardly wait to get out. I still feel that kindness and understanding are far more effective than screaming and criticizing.
I'd like to know what's going on with you, too. I wish you the very best because rehab is not for sissies.
For myself, I always remember that with drinking "one is too many and a thousand is not enough."

Answer 2

Too many. Crack cocaine. Eight years. Clean 3 years.
I am not a big fan of rehabs , I find the ones I have been to were cruel and controlling. I went to an out patient treatment center in Thibodaux,LA and had the best experience ever. I have been clean ever since and crack is hard to get away from. But the people at this facility were the best, so kind, so nice, and so understanding, they treated us like human beings and not garbage on the side the road. So are you going to add details about why you ask?

Answer 3

Never rehab but one of the times I was in mental hospital, they put me in the drug rehab unit. I was kind of hooked on self-injury. I have only ever used drugs other than alcohol about a half dozen times in my life. I do drink alcohol but never more than one drink and only about 5 times a year. The hospital folks wouldn't believe that, even after all drug tests came back negative. I really am just crazy.

Answer 4

I was, at age 14. So were 3 of my friends. I went to Hickory Ridge in PA. It is closed down now, I believe. 2 of my friends went to St. Francis in Pittsburgh. Sounded like a pit of Hell.
Anyway we were all into inhalants, very dangerous.(gasoline.)
One of our friends died, burned to death. I got off easy and just caught my room on fire and destroyed the second floor of my house from smoke and water damage. We were also big fans of pot and LSD, and drinking of course. I've pretty much tried everything, though that was a while ago. I'm 31 now, and have a daughter in middle school. It is scary to think that she has to make the decisions to stay away from that stuff, and I hope she is smarter than I was.
Anyway, we all have our regrets, right?
It took all of us many more years to give it all up. I am not in a treatment program, but someone I know goes to meetings regularly. He is lucky he didn't die, with all the **** that is out there now.
I am just over it now. I want a real life, for me, and for my kids.
God Bless.

Answer 5

ashnkaylee,
That is a very personal question, and for some very hard to admit.
not me though My dad and mom put me in rehab and beleave it or not I never had a problem what happen was this...
my mother and father were (are) divorsed and my mom came to visit me and was snopping though my room where she found in my trash can piece's toilet paper (i was out of cotten balls) in the shape of my nose and she would not belive what i had to say, and siad i was doing inhalent (NEVER HAVE) she hadnt seen me in over 2 years and somehow got my dad to agree with her that I MUST BE LIEING...
THE TRUTH IS...
I used this stuff called witch hazel to wash my face and it smells funny and the last part on my face i would clean was my nose and then throw it away in the trash. I didnt have my own bathroom so i did it in my room.
so i spent 3 weeks in a rehab facility in texas because i didnt like zits!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!3 weeks listening to the people with real drug problems talk about what they did and alot in the teen unit saying "How Much "FUN" it was" and when i got out then i started to dabble in this and that till it got to the point where my dad sent me to live with my mom (a recovering alcoholic) and i just got worse so she sent back to my dad my dad then put me in a summer school program that was inpatient ( a rehab in disguise as a summer resort badly i might say) i spent 5 months there with the literally certifablly INSANE (skin cutters, suicidals, and sex abusers) ((that was just the "ladies" side))
but once i got my own room by basically munipulating the counsulers that I was a reclusive hermit and if screamed at night cause i was afraid that my roomate would hurt me or worse (which was no lie I was scared of those people)
well needless to say once i got out of there i was on house arrest for 1 whole year no friend in none out till after 6 months and me never out past 6pm at 15-17 years old ( out means back yard or the park down the street if i went anywhere else which i never did then i would have gone right back to "summer school"

I love my mother and my father very much i am now 24 and I have no hard feelings for ether of them they wanted the best for me and for me to be safe now that i am a mother myself i understand what they wanted for me. The same thing I want for My Step daughter (because of my experiance something really hurt me and i cant have kids of my own) and I would just hate to see her go though even close to what i have gone though.

I hope my experiance can bring some light on your question.

I live a normal life with out going out of the limits of the law or the hopes of my parents who i probley (other than being born) seriously owe my life to.

God please grant me
the serenity,
to accecpt the things i cannot change
the corrage,
to change the things i can.
and the wisdom,
to know the differance.
Amen

I am an agnostic but i still pray.
panda

Answer 6

Ive never been to rehab..

Answer 7

*singing*

"well I never been to rehab and I never read the beeg book...
don't wanna use it never wanna lose it I might abuse it"

(apologies to three dog night lol)

Answer 8

Not me

Answer 9

Not me.