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Avoiding Heroin and Going to a Real Rehab at 25
from 154 - The 3 AM Episode · #154
5 min
Tim talks about narrowly avoiding heroin addiction unlike a friend who died from it, and describes his real inpatient rehab experience at 25 at a rough Long Island facility versus his fake outpatient rehab in eighth grade.
- Tim had a friend who died from heroin and credits avoiding it as potentially life-saving.
- Growing up Irish Catholic, he was exposed to drinking and various drugs, but never heroin.
- He went to inpatient rehab at 25, right around when he started comedy.
- Outpatient rehab in eighth grade was fake—just a way to meet new drug connections.
- Long Island Center for Recovery was full of meth heads who'd bang on doors at 7am demanding shorts.
- Tim believes rehab should be harsh and unsettling, not the cushy celebrity experience.
- His insurance barely covered seven days because he didn't show up drunk enough for full approval.
- Intake counselors switch demeanor instantly when insurance falls through, from family-like warmth to 'get out of here kid.'
- The whole system changes its treatment of patients based on whether their insurance will actually pay.
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