Should residential rehab be free

[Addictno]

I am struggling with cocaine addiction and need residential rehab to start my road to recovery !! Who thinks it should be free and available to everyone

The country doesn’t have the funds for it

ideally, yes

but thems the breaks

If you have the money to sustain a cocaine addiction… could you channel that in to rehab?

I know this is the problem .. and quite a lot of the population need residential rehab

I don't think I could pay for rehab like that all in one go . Rehab needs paying before I'm admitted and it's more than I spend a month on my habbitt . While I'm not getting treatment I would still be using so no that is not an option for me 😞

No of course not

It is not going to happen in our lifetime at least
So literally no point debating

How much are you spending on cocaine a day?

Have you spoken to your local drug service?

Have you been in touch with your local addiction services?

Are you having treatment in the community? That would be the first step.

The local authority pays for rehab as far as I know. You need to engage with your local drug service and ask for rehab. They will discuss your case and take it to the funding panel if they think it is warranted. Usually community interventions are tried first. Some rehabs also have bursary places. first step is seeking treatment.

This is an organisation which has lots of rehabs who work with the LAs and can advise you choicesrehabs.com/routes-into-rehab/

No it shouldnt the country cant afford it. Probably should of NC for this but I was a cocaine addict (most days using!) & ive been clean and sober for 8 years now with no help.
If i can do it - so can you, you need to stop hanging around with the people that do it and focus on keeping yourself busy. staying away from triggers. Getting early nights etc.
Reach out, happy to help. Cocaine ruins lifes & i promise you life is so much better without that shit. Its hard work but it pays off.

It is free!! You need to engage with your local treatment provider, they will provide support and if you are assessed as needing rehab it will be provided. I commission drug and alcohol
services and that’s how it works. Where are you (local authority) and I can see who you provider is?

I’d rather NHS dentistry was funded before NHS RESIDENTIAL drug rehab as I think it would benefit the health of more people. Probably with higher success rate also. Sorry

Low cost yes. Free no. People don't appreciate what's free.

Agree with this, and only once a Commitment to abstinence has been evidenced.
Should every rehab admission be free?

Exactly this - you need to engage with your local drug and alcohol services and they will support you. If you meet the criteria for residential rehab they will apply to the ICB to fund this for you (or whatever local funding arrangements are in place).

Its not the first option they will try though, they will exhaust all community based options first.

You got yourself to this place by making bad choices. Why should those leading clean lives /the rest of society have to fund your recovery?
The normalisation of drug taking sickens me.

unfair! those of us who have no addiction are pretty lucky for all sorts of reasons. I honestly don’t know the answer though- is it legalisation? which countries have the lowest proportions of drug users?

You need to be able to sustain engagement with a community treatment provider, there's usually a programme to follow for a period of time usually at least 8-12 weeks and reduce your consumption they will then apply for rehab funding on your behalf, local authorities usually have a pot of money for this but in some areas it's held with the ICB. People who want to skip all of this can pay privately and go straight to rehab but IME it's usually more successful when someone has committed to community treatment first, because rehab doesn't fix things, it takes hard work after. I've seen many people do rehab come straight back out and use again.

3 month alcohol rehab was free for me in 2006, saved my life, …Leeds area, still ‘free’ now but very limited places.

So grateful I had the opportunity and got a place.

the other people in their at the time had their benefits taken to pay for the stay and treatment , I wasn’t on any benefits at the time , just managed to pay my mortgage whilst in between temping and drinking so they wrote to my mortgage company, gas/electric/council tax and asked them if they would suspend payments till I was fit and well enough to start again . I was in my twenties then, single, no kids.

I don’t think I am being unfair. I’m in my sixties, probably having lived through many more experiences than many, but kept an ultimate control whilst still running with the pack.
Looking around at the excuses forever made for just about everything by those half my age, I understand why society is in such a bloody mess.

There are free programmes you can get assigned to support your recovery, but not necessarily residential rehabilitation, as that would be a waste of money as a first resort.
You have to show that you have a strategy and willpower to resist the urges when you are bored and have noone telling you not to.
What have you tried so far?
What is your usage like, and what are your barriers to quitting?

Honestly I’d say no, it shouldn’t be. We can’t as a country afford it, there are lots of other options before you get to that point, and it really isn’t as effective enough to justify the cost.

There are lots of drop outs because it is up to you to actually stay there. We paid for residential rehab for BIL as he was adamant that would help him, he meant it when he said it. The reality is we paid it and he lasted a few days- long enough to have sobered up- and then checked himself out. We spoke to the centre who said 52% of those who check in, check themselves out without completing the program so we would be funding a huge amount of nothing really. Those who self fund are more likely to stick it out because they have actually themselves had to pay for it, they have something to lose. If someone else pays, not so much.

Given that it’s a health issue it should, but the UK isn’t prepared to face up to its drug epidemic.

If you’re desperate you can always look up Teen Challenge, their have a number of centres throughout the UK. It’s very religion oriented though.