• Donjamos@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Addiction and rehab are a crazy example how much the US is different then other first world countries. I battled with addiction ten years ago. I’m not from the US. Went to my doctor and got send to the hospital, spent three weeks in detox, a year in rehab and another year in some assisted living program. So over two years treatment in total. Cost me 30 bucks, I think, as a surcharge for the stay in the hospital and that was that. Even got social Security payments the whole time which enabled me to live a fairly regular life besides beeing in those institutions.

    Way better solution then getting some cheap heroin copy from a gas station…