Is itTypical to BINGE before going to rehab?

[Spiritual Seeker]

When you have a date to leave for rehab is it typical to binge on your DOC and/or alcohol in the days leading up to departure?

[StayinAlive]

thats a loaded question, i never but many do. And if there lucky they may show up to rehab. A few come in loaded. Are you asking for yourself?

[Spiritual Seeker]

I am asking for my son who is sched. to go to long-term one yr. treatment facility in one week. He was trying to stay sober, but since he decided to go, he has been binging Getting drunk is all he seems to wants to do. Maybe it was a mistake to have a time lag between deciding to go and the admitting day.

[ex D-Boy]

a lot of people tend to binge on there DOC before going into treatment. They see it as sort of a goodbye and figure since this is the "last time" they will ever use their DOC again they mine as well go all out.

I myself shot 3 bundles of dope the day i was going into treatment ($240 worth). and that was the rationalization i gave myself to use before going into treatment.

Be safe and I hope everything works out for your son

[Sugah]

I took everything I had left in the house -- which was barely enough to keep me from being sick -- before I went to detox. The logic or illogic of it was beyond me at the time. The danger in binging, I think, is that it makes it that much easier to change one's mind. But, I know a lot of people who have had "one last hurrah." The grip of addiction is strong. Say a prayer for him that the desire to be clean is stronger -- and I'll join you in those prayers.

Peace & Love,
Sugah

[exjunky]

It's certainly common. I know many people who binged prior to rehab--I even know somebody who hid dope in her bedroom so she could retrieve it as soon as she got out of rehab. Insane, isn't it?

I binged before I started suboxone treatment--I had a bunch of drugs and figured "now or never!"

It didn't help that my drug stash was enormous at the time. I actually gave a bit of my stash away to get through it quicker. That's something that no junky would ever normally do. To me, that was the action that signified my commitment to quit, before the actual quitting.

Looking back, the fact that I got wasted at the tail end of a year long run doesn't make my life any better today. I might as well have sold my drugs and took the $$$ and then I could have something to show for it, but what can I say, I was severely mentally ill at the time.

[Lily]

I didn't, in fact I had a week clean, but that was because I was trying to change my families mind about my needing to go to rehab, but I did need to go!

However, I know this isn't the same, but every diet I have ever gone on, I have pigged out BIG TIME before I started the diet.

Sheila for your son!

[Spiritual Seeker]

Thanks for the input everyone. I like the diet analagy.

[tw33k]

When i knew i was going into rehab, i used liked nothing else.
If that's what hes doing, be careful because a lot of places require you to be detoxed before entry.

[2ala2]

Get ur son in today if you can while he is still alive!

[Gmoney]

I wouldn't recommend it or endorse it, but I have to admit that I did it too...almost every time. Looking back, it made the first few days in treatment so unbearable.

[ccgirl2]

Don't you think it's probably part of an addict's thinking to do that? I certainly do. I did the opposite, I was so horrified by what I had become that I violently tossed everything I had in the toilet!

[windysan]

of course. dang.