Some insurance companies may cover substance abuse treatment. The vast majority will provide far too little help for their insured addicts. That is a hard reality for addicts to face. It is one reason among many others, that reform and public acceptance of treatment is needed. Here is a look at common discrimination practiced by the insurance industry as it is related to treatment for drug addiction. View it in an HBO.com piece entitled “Can’t Get Treatment Through Your Health Insurance Plan”. Also check out the rest of HBO.com’s film series on addiction. The website CHOOSE HELP goes on to talk about affordability and other options for treatment.
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January 19, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Tom at recoveryhelpdesk.com
Good for HBO for the their work about addiction.
The Choose Help website seems to focus only on “rehabs” or residential drug treatment programs. People who are opiate dependent (and others) are best served if they are given the full menu of treatment options. Many people are not willing to go to residential treatment, don’t need residential treatment, or their insurance won’t pay for residential treatment.
Outpatient counseling, outpatient counseling combined with medication-assisted treatment with buprenorphine (Suboxone), or treatment at a methadone clinic are often a better fit, more effective and more affordable. Residential treatment is the best option in some cases, but that is the exception rather than the rule. I plan to cover each treatment option for people who are opiate dependent at my blog (recoveryhelpdesk.com) starting with methadone. I can also be found in the chatroom at junkjunk.ning.com on a regular basis (most often in the evening) if people have questions.
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January 19, 2010 at 10:40 pm
dadonfire
Good point and also the reason you will find Recovery Helpdesk in this websites sidebar under opioid treatment. Keep up the great work.
January 27, 2010 at 1:05 am
keith
Pennsylvania and where I live in PA (my county) has awsome stuff in place for addicts. Anyone can get funded for inpatient, and then for outpatient for up to a year after it. Heck the one rehab puts people on subs, and the county funds the doc visits and the meds for 11 months after wards. Thats awsome if they do the right thing and really work on their problem like I did.
I’m one of the few that actually do what we have to do to recover. Many people don’t and that’s just how powerful this stuff were dealing with really is. The public/govt/whatever, just doesn’t have a clue that “they don’t have a clue”. That’s why someone can’t even get a rehab stay paid for, or get 14 days instead of 10 in a rehab. Look at what the stars pay to go to those resorts for rehab. Just think how many normal people they could have sent to rehab with that money they paid for to get pampered and patted on the back. But yea for addicts its usually the easier softer way first. Then becoming willing thru more pain forces people to go to any length to recover. It would be nice if they had support in other areas of the country.
I have a friend in Chicago. He said that the one rehab haymarket will not accept you if you take xanax or any benzo cause they cannot facilitate that detox. They have to go to a medical detox which is usually full and people are lined up out the doors. Now what is someone in that situation supposed to do? Its sad. We need more places for people to go and get better support from insurance companys and the government.
April 28, 2010 at 8:59 am
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