"2"^^ . "0"^^ . . "0"^^ . . . "2018-03-15T00:00:00"^^ . "1"^^ . "I've long contemplated sharing my exposing experience here, as it is a very personal one...but I also feel morally compelled to urge others to seek alternative treatment centers for your loved one.\n\nI found this place through the grapevine, as a refuge & drug rehabilitation center for those without health insurance, which fit the bill for someone very near and dear to me. I took him in on a Saturday - he was ready to try & get better, so to speak. He had a genetic predisposition to alcoholism & was abusing it to cope with grief, depression, and the woes of a being a bright person who thinks & feels too much.\n\nNeedless to say, one of our very last conversations before he took his life (less than 12hrs from being cleared & picked up) was about what his four days were like here. He lucidly recanted how it is simply a revolving door for the homeless, that his fellow patients all greeted each other cheerily as if in some sort of creepy reunion. He explained that many people just use it to take a break from their hard drug use, get some shelter & food, then return to the homeless thing. \"See you soon, Gary!\"\n\nThe limited phone contact we had in those days prior...well, let's just say, not in ten years in his worst drunken stupor did he ever seem so medicated as what they gave him. How is it that you can dope someone up to that degree & simply send them home with nothing? All the while proselytizing \"sobriety\"??\n\nIn the aftermath, I found a certification of completion for his mental health quiz - a glittering A grade.\n\nThe bounds of his depression were obviously beyond the scope of this sh#thole, but I still have to wonder if he had better care, possibly he might still be here with us. And for that reason, my story is here in all of its horrific honesty.\n\nThere has to be better options here in LV. Please learn from my experience & find a place that cares about each patient the way they truly deserve. Do not buy into the D.A.R.E-era rhetoric or the idea that doctors are saviors...the prescriptions they give out like tictacs here are just as scary and have as many side effects as anything illegal or potentially abusive.\n\nP.S. Disturbing fact: It pales in comparison, but there was literally a very pregnant woman checking herself in when I picked him up - to give you an idea of the clientele."^^ .