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Espresso Can, Sobriety, and Checking Into Rehab
from Subsistence Hustlers · #21
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3 minTim notes his guest's espresso can and water bottle, reflects on being a decade sober, and tells the story of checking into the Long Island Center for Recovery in 2011 while on Percocet, only to be told he wasn't drunk enough for insurance to cover detox.
- 2:01Guest shows up to record with a can of espresso and a water bottle instead of the usual crushed Poland Spring bottles.
- 2:18Tim checks Facebook and realizes he was a drug addict for a decade, reflecting on how some people never escape that life.
- 2:32Tim went to rehab in 2011 at Long Island State Center for Recovery.
- 3:15He was taking Percocet every day like a handful in the morning, and felt like nothing compared to Rush Limbaugh taking 28 OxyContin daily.
- 3:37At rehab, Tim saw kids shooting heroin and felt like a loser for just being on pills, wondering if there should be levels of rehab.
- 4:09Tim checked into rehab partly because he was unhappy with his job and had just started stand-up, thinking it would be a nice vacation.
- 4:31At intake, the woman tells Tim the insurance won't approve his stay because he's not drunk enough.
- 4:45The rehab intake coordinator explains they need patients to blow a high blood alcohol level so they can justify detoxification for insurance to cover more than 48 hours.
- 5:08Tim acknowledges that alcohol withdrawal is medically real and dangerous, but jokes about just walking out after 10 minutes.
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