Guy: Hey, do you have a cigarette?
Me: No, I don’t.
Guy: I figured, you don’t look like you smoke.
Me: You know, it’s bad for your health….
Guy: (glowers at me)
Me: I have to say that.
Guy: Ooooh, I knoooow. I gave up the drugs and the drinking, all I have now are women and smokes, you’re not gonna take that away are you?
Me: Of course not, you have to do that for yourself.
Guy: (makes loud sighing noise)
The phone rings and it’s that patient that I had nearly given up on, the one that tried my patience, never had a clean tox-screen, the one who had disappeared months into our intervention, the one who I thought I had lost.
They went to detox, they’re 28-days sober, and they want to come back to Bup clinic and make the committment to staying clean.
Screw the relapse statistics, screw the Doubting Thomas’. What matters is the patient trusts me and is coming back (which they rarely do in other programs), and we’ll do whatever we can to help.
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