Out of curiosity..if you were given 1 billion dollars, but you couldn’t ever drink or get high again, would you take it?

Oh absolutely. First thing I'd do is happily be able to afford a detox center and a rehab facility. That's all I want. Even if I had just enough money to go into a detox/rehab I would take it. I long for sobriety more than anything but the drugs I'm on cause lethal withdrawals if not treated and monitored properly by professionals. All state insured rehabs and detoxes are closed in my area due to COVID outbreaks and when they do open briefly before another outbreak occurs they only accept court mandated people's. My only choice is to kick a fentanyl/RC benzo habit at home with no professional care, or remain sick and suffering until a place opens up to the public and not just convicts/people on probation.

If I had a MILLION dollars, though, omg. I would be set. Maybe I'd even go to a nice beach in the Bahamas after kicking my habit and open up a facility for minors hooked on physically addictive substances such as benzos, fentanyl and alcohol. That is my dream and has always been such ever since I was a homeless child physically addicted to fentanyl. No rehabs would take me due to age and not having any parents to consent (even if I did they still said they wouldn't have taken me ) so I had to wait 5 years total with an opioid habit (3 yrs on Dilaudid and 2 on IV fentanyl) before being eligible to get the help I needed. The only addiction services for minors in my area were places like Rushford adolescents, which was an outpatient facility for kids addicted to "anything", mainly consisting of children who smoke marijuana and dabble in over the counter cough syrups. I felt like an outcast due to being the only one with an actual physical dependency to "hard drugs" and I wasn't receiving any help besides group therapy. That didn't do shit to help me kick my physical habit and the staff didn't give a fuck because, out of the 15 kids there, I was the only one with a physical habit. They didn't know what to do with me. So I left. And only years later did I receive the help I needed. I want to make a change in that.

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