Southeast Missouri Behavioral Health Aquinas Center

“They only let 3 people leave a week. And that's only if 3 new people come in. If you come in withdrawing, it's the luck of the draw if you get put on suboxone. Even if it will help you succeed and stay sober. You have a 50 percent chance of getting the Doctor who believes in suboxone helping people, and then you got 50 percent chance of getting rhe doctor who hates suboxone and doesn't care if you go shoot up fentanyl and die when you leave this place, she refuses to give it to you. I've seen multiple people who need it, because they are opiate addicts, and the Doctor just tells them no she won't make you into a zombie. And I know one person who if that Doctor just would have listened instead of shutting them down, would still be alive today. It's not a game, it's someone's life. This place is just about their Medicaid funding so don't go there unless your p.o. is forcing you to. They don't care what happens to you when you leave.”

“The worst place ever to get treatment. I do not know how they are even still in business. I was a self pay and paid a grand to walk in and hundred dollars a day. No court, no probation, no parole, just wanted help. The second day there my counselor went on vacation. Days later I still never received a packet, papers, lesson, nothing. Just sat there. Finally I asked where my counselor has been and am I ever going to see or talk to him. They ask me who my counselor was afterwards.... Wait a minute what?? So I explain to them what he looked like and they said he is on vacation and I can talk to him when he gets back 😳 WTf did she just say???? I paid a thousand to walk in the door and hundred a day for help. It has now been Day 4 and they didn’t know who my counselor was, nor did they even try to get paper work or a book on recovery, nothing to work on sobriety for me. Then said I would have to finish out the week to be able to talk to someone. They are crazy. Then some staff member kept sticking banana stickers on my back. Look I’m going through some changes and my body is sobering up, feeling sick, paying $100 cash a day, and this staff member thinks it’s funny to put stickers on my back? It goes on and on in that awful place. Today after completing this treatment a half a year or so ago, I call up there and tried to get a certificate, something in writing, even a two sentence letter written on piece of paper signed and dated and they said they can not do that? 😳😳😳 ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? Why is this nightmare of a place still open? DO NOT GO TO THIS TREATMENT CENTER IN FARMINGTON MISSOURI. YOU WERE WARNED...”

“The staff is caring enough, as is the program, but they totally dropped the ball with me. They got me re-chemically dependant on Suboxone as an assisted therapy, did NOT provide me with an appointment the week before I left to see the provider, and even went so far as to tell me I HAD a refill at the pharmacy. The day I left all meds were delivered aside from my Suboxone. I finally found contact info for their pharmacy. When I called they told me there WAS NO REFILL. They provided me an appointment to follow up with the provider weeks after my discharge; that would have been fine; IF they provided the medication they lied about. I literally just got off the phone with the rehab, and big suprise here, they can't do anything at all I'm in withdrawal, and I won't lie: I'm going to relapse in order to make it quit. I wanted off these things, they talked me into staying on and then left me high and dry. If you really want recovery, look else where. You won't find it here. Or you might. But, why would you risk it like that?”

“This place is a joke. The don't let you see a doctor for weeks. So if you are a heroin addict you won't get your Suboxone until you are already detoxed. If you are an alcoholic or quitting benzos, you are endangering your life. Unlike heroin withdraw, alcohol and benzos withdraw can kill you. The "classes" you sit in all day are taught by unqualified people who have no idea what they are talking about. If you are a first-timer, you will be misinformed and learn nothing about your disease.They teach nothing about the twelve steps and don't have any AA/NA literature, which I personally believe works as it kept me sober for eight years. Don't take a cellphone as they dispose of them. They don't inform you that they only have pay phones and you need a calling card or call someone with a land line. They have federal prisoners housed with everyone else. Most everyone there has been sent there by their P.O., so they have to go and don't want to be there. The first day I was there, I was approached about buying four different drugs. Theft is a big issue. If you're serious about getting help, please choose another facility. I would recommend Bridgeway in St. Charles. Their staff is well informed and a lot of them are recovering addicts, so they are easy to talk to and genuinely want you to succeed. Remember, there is life after heroin. If I can quit, so can you. You don't have to live in hell, life is good. Please don't let it kill you, there are people who love you and they will be devastated, as I am after losing the love of my life.”