Every year, over 20,000 teens and young adults are being placed (most against their will) in drug and alcohol residential treatment centers across the country.Parents feeling powerless to their children’s addictions feel this is their only recourse in helping save them from what some “so-called” experts in the field of addiction call “a disease” that is only treatable with “their” interventions and can be cured only at their facilities. Unfortunately, what is REALLY going on is horrifying and stunning. This is a multi-million dollar industry filled with domestic predators that prey not only on the teens and young adults of addictions, but their parents heart and purse-strings as well.Hundreds of thousands of dollars are being spent each year, per child, while these predators are abusing and brainwashing our teens and young adults in private in order to keep them at these torturous facilities. One of the numerous ways they use is having them succumb to their cultish style of mind set having them believe that they have no where else to go because they are worthless human beings that nobody wants. A dirty little secret that continues to go on unnoticed. What you see is not what you are getting and awareness needs to be brought to the forefront. Parents all over the country are re-mortgaging their homes, taking out loans and pulling the money from where ever they can in order to private pay these so called treatment centers to "save their child's" life. In saving a soul, you are loosing your's in the process to these trecherous insitutions. What is more ironic, that even in this economy, these residential treatment centers are flourishing, and growing in huge proportions.
There is a term coined that most have heard call “tough love” which is an expression used when someone treats another person harshly or sternly with the intent to help them in the long run. Unfortunately, when dealing with this type of challenge, threats of abandonment towards an already broken person is truly not the way to go in the healing of an addicted youth. I admit, living with an addict is not easy. I have been dealing with addiction for over 30 years with not only my partner, but now my son who is 22. Talk about the Oreo Cookie Reality. Both are currently in AA. I have found personally, that in trying to help the addict, you end up enabling the addict further into their addiction which is not healthy on either’s part. Below is a link to two articles from Maia Svalavitz. She wrote the book “Help At Any Cost” which talks about tough love and it’s consequences in an industry that will stop at nothing to keep your child entrenched, while also trying to gain your trust; and why this form of treatment in these facilities is not healthy. The bottom line is this, it’s gone from tough love to just tough.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szala...
Who would have thought most of these “treatment centers” (group homes) that go by the names of Wilderness Camps, Boot Camps, Drug and Alcohol Residential Programs, to name a few, would be places that are operating without proper accreditations, improper licenses; staffing personnel whose only qualification is that they have gone through “their” programs and are recovering addicts with 98% of them having no therapeutic credentials, leaving your children vulnerable at best. I had no idea until it happened to us, just how much scam and scum is lurking around when it comes to our trouble teens and young adults with addiction challenges had it not been for an organization called HEAL which is an advocacy organization for survivors of such programs when I was researching out solutions when the red flags started waving. The woman who heads up this program, Angela, has been doing this for over ten years and is a survivor herself (see Warning Signs of Abuse At Treatment Programs for Teens you may be considering from the advocacy organization HEAL below listed on their home page)
http://www.heal-online.org
At some point, after spending sleepless nights wondering if your teen or young adult is safe, you come to the painful conclusion that you have no other choice but to reach out for professional help. You have to trust the process and hope you are heading in the right direction of healing and recovery because you have no other choice considering your options. You then find out, “if your lucky,” that you are being scammed in the most heartless, ruthless way and that your teen or young adult is being put through hell, being broken down mentally; in some cases starved, living in standards much less than was promised with all his/her rights taken away and these treatment centers are getting away with it. Well why not? People like Montel Williams are sending children on his show to places such as Eagle Ranch Academy and Red Rock Canyon School that are known for abusing children; American Express who is giving thousands of dollars to help fund Pathyway Family Centers (I was horrified at what goes on there – see video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OfCXLdOA...)
Let’s not stop here, for you always save the best for last… How about all the Teen Challenges through-out the country that are endorsed by Drug Fee America Foundation (DFAF) who was founded by Mel Sembler, former owner and Director of an organization called Straight, Inc, a confirmed torturous group of institutions for teens; and who was also indorsed by Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. Georgie instituted the “New Freedom Commission” in 2000. The “New Freedom Commission” is a group of psychiatrists and pharmaceutical lobbyists working to insure that every child in America is drugged and virtually enslaved through behavior modification. How about them apples? (see below link for entire scope from HEAL.)
http://www.heal-online.org/teen.htm#acti...
My son was recently in a rehab center here in Arizona. We were referred to this program by my son's therapist, who happens to also be their Clinical Director. He was there 3 months; but it was a year’s program. When we did the intervention, little did we know we too were being prayed upon. These Programs are so sewn up tight, that even with checking them out, most of the time you would never suspect fowl play. As time went on, and we starting to notice holes in “the” system, we starting putting two and two together and doing some major research and realized after demanding to see our son privately, and finally seeing him after almost 3 months, t was time to pull him out. Any program that keeps your child away from his/her family, monitors ALL correspondence and phone calls, does not allow you access to where he/she is residing, beats them down emotionally using the tough love tactics that is tough as a format of therapy is a red flag.
I share this information because this hit too close to home for me not to bring this to the attention of the many I hope to be fortunate enough to reach, in hopes you don't have to suffer as we did; and for all those reading, may I encourage you to pass this along, comment and help make this blog thread multiply. I can be reached personally at skyerivers@gmail.com to talk further on options, but please note, I can not make recommendations on where to send your child. May I also encourage you to go to the HEAL website for further information on how you can avoid being taken in by such organizations when seeking help and how your voice can make a difference.
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