Here's a fascinating link to an LA Times story about a cluster of pricey rehabs in Malibu--so f'ed up--they get away with some pretty shady stuff--and seem to prey on families when they are at their most vulnerable.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-rehab9oct09,0,5556868,full.story?coll=la-home-local
And here's a description I got from one of the rehab Passages' web site; the pic above is from there as well:
"Framed between the rugged Santa Monica mountains to the rear and a beautiful view overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Passages' three acre grounds are the perfect place to heal. From the babbling koi pond to the exquisitely manicured lawns, Passages offers an ideal setting for working with the lives of people who come to us from situations and life conditions that are anything but ideal."
Makes me want to go to rehab. Not!
2 comments:
wow, Lizzie. Thanks for that link. I'm reminded of my experiences with the Menninger Clinic in Houston. They charged me a great deal of cash money to tell me that I should come to terms with the fact that the disease is chronic and start taking seroquil.
It's so true that these places take advantage of people at their most vulnerable: when I went to them I would have severed a limb just to get some answers.
Wouldn't it be cool to have a site where these places were reviewed by actual patients?
All of their ad copy sounds exactly the same, and alarmingly similar to snake oil pitching.
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