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moodreadswithmoe's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
4.0
sunny76's review
4.0
Educational read. The Affordable Care Act fixes one thing (treatment for addicts) and leaves a loop hole big enough to drive an aircraft carrier through. A loop hole that causes exploitation of those addicts. (free prime read)
melissarochelle's review
4.0
Raise your hand if you check your state's medical board licensing verification site before you visit a doctor...
Waiting...
Yeah, well, you should. There are MANY people who claim to be therapists, chiropractors, physicians who have never passed any kind of test or attended a program. They are liars. Avoid them.
This "bad therapist" took advantage of his "clients" -- he was supposed to be helping them kick their addictions. Instead he gave them more drugs.
This still happens in the recovery industry today. Seek in-network addiction treatment programs. Especially if you're looking at programs in California or Florida. I cannot stress to you enough how many "facilities" there are out there that are truly JUST sober living homes. They claim to over counseling, etc, but they actually just bus patients from their very pricey sober living home to non-facility AA/NA meetings. They bill insurance for THOUSANDS of dollars for "partial hospitalization" when other programs may only charge a thousand dollars for a month of the same level of care.
DO YOUR RESEARCH. (If you need assistance or have questions, please feel free to reach out. I am in know way an expert (or a therapist), but I am pretty familiar with the industry.)
Waiting...
Yeah, well, you should. There are MANY people who claim to be therapists, chiropractors, physicians who have never passed any kind of test or attended a program. They are liars. Avoid them.
This "bad therapist" took advantage of his "clients" -- he was supposed to be helping them kick their addictions. Instead he gave them more drugs.
This still happens in the recovery industry today. Seek in-network addiction treatment programs. Especially if you're looking at programs in California or Florida. I cannot stress to you enough how many "facilities" there are out there that are truly JUST sober living homes. They claim to over counseling, etc, but they actually just bus patients from their very pricey sober living home to non-facility AA/NA meetings. They bill insurance for THOUSANDS of dollars for "partial hospitalization" when other programs may only charge a thousand dollars for a month of the same level of care.
DO YOUR RESEARCH. (If you need assistance or have questions, please feel free to reach out. I am in know way an expert (or a therapist), but I am pretty familiar with the industry.)
ellieintherye's review
4.0
This story was super fascinating, but extremely cringeworthy + graphic in parts, so content warning: sexual assault, drug use. The number of times the author used the word "vibes" was astonishing, and not in a good way. Overall, I wasn't a fan of the writing when I really paid attention. But, since I was listening to it, it was a bit easier to ignore that and just listen to the story, which, whoah. Crazy story! Also, the performance was questionable. Can we PLEASE be done with male voice actors doing female voices in a weird, aloof, pathetic, whiny tone? Like, just read the text; your voices are distracting and weird, and I'm a little offended.
The systems that allowed this failed-pool-man-turned-"therapist" sociopath to exploit and commodify addicts is still in place — almost nothing has changed. The United States' "War on Drugs" is still in full force, and people are still capitalizing on illness of addiction, which is extremely distressing.
The systems that allowed this failed-pool-man-turned-"therapist" sociopath to exploit and commodify addicts is still in place — almost nothing has changed. The United States' "War on Drugs" is still in full force, and people are still capitalizing on illness of addiction, which is extremely distressing.
chewdigestbooks's review
4.0
This man and these setups piss me off on many levels. I benefit greatly from the parity section of the ACA whereas before I seldom used my expensive insurance. I don't get sick, am awful with checkups, basically don't see the doctor or use the insurance except in this one area, my mental health. Before the Parity portion of ACA it was treated and paid like an also-ran, a luxury, unimportant, only a few visits were covered each year, I might as well not have not had insurance except for the fact that I was self-medicating, relying on a GP that just cannot be expected to know that brain as well too. or I would do stupid shit that landed me in the ER or Doctor's office because the main issue was not being treated. I even ended up in the ER because of a pill that the doctor told me to try and when I called to described the horrible side effects, he said just give it more time. After turning orange, have my gums, throat so swollen that I couldn't eat, and a high fever, I went anyway. I mean no offense when I say that it is not a General Practitioners job to mess anyone with a serious mental illness. They are called General for a reason. (as a side note it turns out he was giving me really strong medication for the wrong illness besides my obvious allergic reaction to it and there may have been kickbacks)
To hear that these men were working a system that now means so much too me, hurts people if not kills them and all of this fraud makes it an easy target to point at and say parity doesn't work angers and scares me.
Just as those with legitimate chronic pain cry out when measures are made to make their necessary medications harder to get because of the idiots that are abusing it, this is very similar, only to me it feels like it's on a larger, more organized RICO type scale.
Lastly, these poor addicts are getting absolutely no help and are sometimes being handed drugs at a place where they and their families were looking for help and cessation. How many more of these are out there?
To hear that these men were working a system that now means so much too me, hurts people if not kills them and all of this fraud makes it an easy target to point at and say parity doesn't work angers and scares me.
Just as those with legitimate chronic pain cry out when measures are made to make their necessary medications harder to get because of the idiots that are abusing it, this is very similar, only to me it feels like it's on a larger, more organized RICO type scale.
Lastly, these poor addicts are getting absolutely no help and are sometimes being handed drugs at a place where they and their families were looking for help and cessation. How many more of these are out there?
kelli7990's review
dark
informative
sad
fast-paced
5.0
* I borrowed this book for free from Amazon Prime. *
I liked this book. I thought it was interesting.
I liked this book. I thought it was interesting.