12-22-2017, 10:55 AM
I must be missing out on some really crappy tv anymore. I only recognized Flo the dumbass insurance woman, the really lame 'new kfc dude' and one other.. I seldom watch anything with commercials anymore.
I'm addicted to non-shitty tv i guess. Is there a 12 step group to help me start watching crap tv again?
Edit: just saw the addiction network one..
I gotta tell you that I spent the better part of the past 20 years in and out of methadone clinics and I am not impressed. These kinds of commercials remind me of religious groups full of people swearing that some dumbass preacher and prayer cured them of every known incurable disease known to man.. Go to these places and they are NOT the places portrayed by television..At BEST you'll be treated like you're dealing with a corrections officer who just had to go break up a gang fight..They typically show zero interest in your problems and even less interest in getting you off of the replacement medications. You'll become a number in the profit and loss column and nothing more. I could write about these places for the next 20 years and nothing about it would leave you feeling like they're trying to help anyone because it's big business. I've done a LOT OF research and reading on the subject.
Methadone alone, forget subutex and the other medications, cost the clinics about 3¢ per 100 milligrams and yet everyone who ever comes in the door of those places gets started with 30 milligrams..daily and they're charged a minimum of $10-20 per day. Do the math. If it's a free clinic then Uncle Sugar foots the bill, but every patient gets treated basically the same, as a number in the p&l column. The privately funded clinics (the ones where the patients pay every day) have slightly different rules, but they all operate the same way and everybody pisses in the same cup. (not literally the same cup, but you know what I mean) and you don't see happy people in scrubs walking around with stethascopes.. They all look like disgruntled prison guards.. Gee, I wonder why.. It's not as if dealing with drug addicts all day is super inspiring or anything..
I'm addicted to non-shitty tv i guess. Is there a 12 step group to help me start watching crap tv again?
Edit: just saw the addiction network one..
I gotta tell you that I spent the better part of the past 20 years in and out of methadone clinics and I am not impressed. These kinds of commercials remind me of religious groups full of people swearing that some dumbass preacher and prayer cured them of every known incurable disease known to man.. Go to these places and they are NOT the places portrayed by television..At BEST you'll be treated like you're dealing with a corrections officer who just had to go break up a gang fight..They typically show zero interest in your problems and even less interest in getting you off of the replacement medications. You'll become a number in the profit and loss column and nothing more. I could write about these places for the next 20 years and nothing about it would leave you feeling like they're trying to help anyone because it's big business. I've done a LOT OF research and reading on the subject.
Methadone alone, forget subutex and the other medications, cost the clinics about 3¢ per 100 milligrams and yet everyone who ever comes in the door of those places gets started with 30 milligrams..daily and they're charged a minimum of $10-20 per day. Do the math. If it's a free clinic then Uncle Sugar foots the bill, but every patient gets treated basically the same, as a number in the p&l column. The privately funded clinics (the ones where the patients pay every day) have slightly different rules, but they all operate the same way and everybody pisses in the same cup. (not literally the same cup, but you know what I mean) and you don't see happy people in scrubs walking around with stethascopes.. They all look like disgruntled prison guards.. Gee, I wonder why.. It's not as if dealing with drug addicts all day is super inspiring or anything..
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