as the spouse of a teacher, I was fortunate that my insurance was robust enough to cover all of the cost associated with rehab and the IOP treatment that I’m currently currently in. Many don’t have this option, but there are financial aid opportunities that exist for people that want to recover from their addictions. Don’t give up if your insurance doesn’t pay for everything and don’t give up if you have a high deductible plan and think you can’t afford it because you cannot not afford to do it. Keep in mind that deductibles are paid to the medical provider and don’t have to be paid immediately. If you do your personal inventory and realize how much money you were spending on , your addictions, then you will quickly see how you can pay for getting better. The dividends are not just financial, but you get your life back and may stand a chance of living along and happy life for your remaining days. Many people don’t realize that financial aid is available from most medical groups, including hospitals and groups of private practices because they raise funds from people that are generous with their donations to mass, medical institutions and hospitals, by way of gala and other fundraisers. All you have to do is call your provider with your bill in hand and say you can’t pay for it and they will say “oh, you could fill out this financial aid application, and we can probably wipe all of that out for you!“ This was a great finding many years ago, when we could not afford our co-pays, and did not intend to shirk our financial responsibilities, but we simply could not afford to pay the burdens that were incurred by the medical system. This is not intended to point the finger and wrong the medical institutions for their expensive treatments because that’s just the economic reality of life today in America and the providers are often not even making NC because the insurance companies do not pay at the level they should. Without going off on a tangent, I believe this is the danger of applying capitalism to medical care and other critical parts of our society that should be socialized so everybody stands a chance. I’m not a socialist, and I don’t condone socialism for most aspects of our capitalist economy but in some cases, Europeans, for example, have better opportunities to get better and recover.