Dr.Bill100 Questions about alcohol intake counseling
Dr. Bill,
I'm impressed with your willingness to answer everyone's questions, and I'll thank you in advance for mine... I just went and did my intake and previously knew without a doubt I'd have four months of alcohol abuse treatment and decided to have a good weekend before I quit. Previous to going in today (5/5/2011) I had 9 beers and 3 glasses of wine (kind of an all day event golfing and such) that was on Sunday 5/01/2011, then nothing at all until Tuesday night 5/3/2011 and had two large glasses of wine. So again today, Thursday 5/5/2011) I took a test and the name brand was STATcup, I pissed in it, brought it back to the girl, and she says right away within less than 2 minutes of me peeing... Oh that's good. I questioned her and she said nothing shows up! Then I questioned her not even alcohol? She says no, why did you drink? I responded that I had over the weekend because I'm not in counseling YET! She responded by saying, "in that case I need to send it to the lab, but in your case, after speaking with the counselor, I'm not going to" I know long story sorry, but my questions are this: This STATcup test, is it an immediate ETG test or does that happen at a lab? I can do the 4 months of not drinking, however I'd like to know if I could and get away with it say 5 days previous to my one night that they could test me? Again thanks in advance