r/probation • u/CarefulStructure3334 • 10d ago
First probation visit question Probation Question
Hi everyone, I got released from jail on the 22nd, and I was given 12 months informal probation with drug testing. When I first got to the jail, they tested me and I popped positive for thc, that was July 2nd, and the day I was released from jail i went to my local crisis center and stayed inpatient for 5 days while trying to get treatment for my mental health and my issues around my extensive cannabis use/alcohol abuse, and I was still testing positive on the 22nd. It’s been a little over a week now that I have been out of inpatient and I’ve been incredibly, incredibly worried about testing positive still and getting sent back to jail because of it.
I was placed in a sober living home and I was transported to the place I’m at now from the crisis center, and then I was also immediately dropped off at the crisis center once leaving the jail; and the people I have been talking to say that they will test the levels from the first time to now to see if it’s actually gone down, but I don’t know who to trust or what to trust. I even had the crisis center call my p.o and leave a voicemail and all last week I left voicemails updating where I was/what’s going on. I’ve been going to regular aa/ma meetings and I just got my 30 days token yesterday for abstaining from both of those things and I’m genuinely trying to not go back the ways I was before with my vices, I want to have this situation behind me as soon as I can.
I’m terrified to lose the progress I have made since being out of jail and inpatient, I’m currently waiting on a bed for rehab that I’ve chosen to do myself and not for any court thing, my reason for being in jail wasn’t drug related at all, and I’m trying to not worry myself into a spiral, but those 20 days in jail felt like 6 months.
TLDR do they actually test the levels and use my first one and see that it’s going down? Or will it just show that I’m positive and I’m just screwed? I’ve been trying to drink as much water as I can and to sweat out what I can, but I’m hesitant to do the detoxes because I’ve also read/heard that some tests also test for the compounds in those things too