rant · moment 9 of 27
Checking Into the Long Island Center for Recovery
from #171 - Brownie Boat | The Tim Dillon Show · #171
4 min
Tim tells the story of his own rehab intake as a young comedian on Percocet, including negotiating with insurance and getting talked into faking drunkenness to qualify for coverage, ending up with 8 days instead of 28.
- Tim tells his dad he's addicted to drugs and might die without rehab; his father responds that he seems fine because he's wearing a suit and has a job.
- He checks into the Long Island Center for Recovery in Hampton Bays, not the nice part of the Hamptons, feeling like his life has gone wrong.
- Tim believed becoming a comedian would let him keep using drugs and drinking, making deals with himself that addiction would somehow be fine once he came out.
- During intake, the intake counselor asks if he's drunk and suggests he go get drunk before coming back because insurance covers cases with high blood alcohol levels better.
- His insurance isn't good, and the counselor's tone shifts from "we're a family" to addressing him as "you" once the application starts failing to go through.
- The counselor finagled approval for eight days of a 28-day program because his insurance company decided he could learn everything in a week instead of a month.
Long Island Center for RecoveryHampton Bays