Question by that 1 chick: What happens at a drug abuse (rehab) class?
Had a random drug test at work today. I may or may not pass. I’ve been there over a year and I know the bosses like me too much to fire me. I talked to a friend that works there and she said its happened before. They didn’t get fired but they made this person do “rehab” (aka drug abuse class)
I was wondering, what the heck do you do in there? Is it like school? How long will it last? How often am I gonna get drug tested?
If you’ve ever experienced that, let me know what goes down. Greatly appreciated.

Best answer:

Answer by Marcia
“The program” varies far too much to for us to give you too much insight. You can expect random drug tests for 1 to 10 years however; again depending upon how serious your company is, their insurance companies are, your state’s injury compensation program is, what you tested positive for and how much, how your company’s customers react to positive tests, and how/which/what contracts your company is carrying for their product.

The function of a re-hab program is not to send you to time out or punish you for having used drugs/alcohol. Rather, it is to encourage you to stop using the substance of choice, encourage you to not take up a different substance, and to be able to provide some sort of success statistics. It may or may not include random or routine drug testing for the duration of the program. It may or may not include classroom time, group or individual therapy sessions, or the requirement to attend additional sessions like NA or AA. It may or may not include personal introspection exercises, tools and exercises for future abstinence purposes, and more. Again, the goal is for graduates to no longer use for the rest of their lives after graduation.

It is good that your company does value its employees to give them a chance. Do realize that this is often done on a case by case basis and that the attitudes of the company, an individual boss, or the top tier can change on a whim. Also, that the company probably has a lot of external pressures including considering the cost of rehab for an employee versus the cost of obtaining and training a new hire. Good luck.

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Doyou have any more details then that?

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Answer by Nurse stat
I have read it . I think he is dealing with a Drug Problem.Maybe check out Country Weekly there you should find the answer

Answer by katey g
nicole is suporting him the whole way and he has had a drug problem for a while

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Since Jeff Hardy is the current topic of the day, I just thought I’d bring up a related and perhaps more important issue and question. Concerning WWE’s “Wellness Program” (see link for details), do you think there are problems with the way the WWE is dealing with substance abuse? It seems to me like the Wellness program is more of a patch-up job than a real solution. Too many wrestlers have been lost and too many more are getting addicted to steroids, drugs, GH, painkillers, et cetera — are random testing and mandatory suspensions real solutions? Do they merely pay lip service to much bigger problems that the WWE isn’t able or willing to deal with?

http://corporate.wwe.com/documents/TalentWellnessProgramOutline2-27-06CORPweb.pdf

Best answer:

Answer by lil aj
wat?

Answer by Daniel De Lyon
While I don’t have time to follow the link and read it, I still have an opinion on the WWE’s wellness policy. I don’t think the WWE is doing it out of the kindness of their heart. If they were they would have instituted the policy a long time ago.

It is only being done as PR move to throw off negative attention. If any of the substances that violate the policy have been prescribed by a doctor than the wrestler will automatically not be in violation.

Regardless of the policy if the WWE really likes you, they will probably protect you and keeping pushing you. Look at Randy Orton. While he has been caught twice for marijuana use and suspended for other violations he still continues to be pushed. The guy has done a lot of bad things like trash hotel rooms, crap in people’s bag and even attempted suicide once or talked about. You think WWE would take a more cautious side in pushing him. But for some reason they just love to give him the ball.

I truly believe that Vince does not have faith in Hardy since he doesn’t fit the mold of the type of wrestlers he likes to push. So they were more than eager to suspend Hardy. It made them look great, like they were actually enforcing their policy since a top tier guy got suspended. I will only believe the policy is not biased when I see a guy like HHH or John Cena get suspended.

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Answer by Amanda
Well done, I think you already know the answer to that question doll.

Answer by I am the walrus goo goo ga joob
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