Author: QuittingOpiatesSweden
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:11 pm
| tearj3rker wrote: |
Hej! That’s all the swedish I know 
It’s great things worked out for you in the end. Was a strange set of symptoms especially since they induced you after you’d already detoxed… but in some way it does make sense. How do they run the program in Sweden? How much does it cost for you? |
The program is usually hard to get into, you need proof (by urine samples) that you’ve been an addict for at least 2 years. Pill addicts are generally not admitted, but I guess my case was so extreme they had to admit me, they’ve never had a codeine addict ever before.
The program is part of the publicly funded healthcare system, it costs mostly through taxes. But there are still fees, but they are subsidized to be very low.
It cost me some because you have to get on withdrawal in a locked ward. That costs 80 kronor (slightly less than 12 USD) per day and I was in there for the whole time monday-to-monday (8 days) that I stayed there it cost 480 kronor (~70 USD).
The meds are covered by tax money through the healthcare system, so I don’t pay for the meds. If I get to a stage where I get the meds from a pharmacy and can take them home (this only is allowed if you have taken it for a year) then it costs some money but all meds are still subsidized, and after you pay a certain amount within one year you don’t have to pay any more for you prescribed meds the rest of that year. But I’m supposed to get weened off subuxone before a year has passed.
