Kitsap Recovery Center - Outpatient Services

Scott Lawrence

As a chemical dependency trainee, I spent a year getting Chemical Dependency Professional certification from Olympic College (excellent program; learned a lot there, caring staff and educators) and then moved on to KITSAP RECOVERY CENTER for further training and internship. What a disaster. The culture at KRC was often mocking and punitive toward inpatients. I know because I was present at many staff meetings. Some staff are caring and do their best to help, but there are a toxic few whose cynicism and brutality pollute the culture under the current leadership, playing into the hands of a few counselors who unethically prey psychologically on the fears and confusions of the already harmed patients, counselors who hunt down and dismiss needful patients from treatment on the basis of rigid interpretations of rules and regulations. Powertrippers. Ugly. Do not seek treatment there if you can avoid it. You might end up up with a counselor who has no understanding of addiction just looking to punish your miserable addicted ass.

LiveLife Sober

After 5 years I finally was ready for recovery. With the help of Health Services.. they found a place for me to do BOTH IN PATIENT TREATMENT & DETOX FROM DRUGS IN ONE PLACE!!! So i was told to just show up @ Kitsap Recovery Center as i was.. (high on meth & heroin) & i would detox from drugs (a friday) after i was done with detox i had a bed available (monday or tuesday) & go right from detox into inpatent treatment!! Both were offered at the same place. I couldnt of been more excited & happy. So i was taken straight from being a homeless drug abusing user to the Seattle ferry terminal in Seattle then On a ferry going to Bremerton & Once in Bremerton To the Kitsap Recovery Center To start detox & then in patient treatment . (which took 1hour waiting on ferry to leave seattle then about 1 hour ferry ride then 20min car ride to treatment center) I arrived at Kitsap Recovery Centers (friday) started to detox but on sunday during detox my anxiety got the best of me & i had a panic attack & freaked out & decided to leave.. they didnt try to stop me or explain to anything i was feeling with me & it took them less then 10mins for them to kicked me out into the streets with no money no idea where i was or how to get home.. i called a close friend who explained that i was just going threw normal panic symptoms when coming off drugs & that i was making a mistake and that i needed and wanted treatment and to go back and tell them i made a mistake. So i went back to building rang bell and said im sorry i made a huge mistake that i calmed down and i realise i made a huge mistake and asked if they could please let me come back. They let me in but said policy was that i had to leave for 24 hours before i could come back. They said i could come back tomorrow (monday) that i still had a bed date for then & they would accept me back on monday if i made it there before 3pm. 3pm was the last time they accepted patients in. They asked me not to use drugs & they called me a taxi they paid for to take me to the ferry & they said that it was free to walk on the ferry. I was ao thankful & hopeful. I finally arrived back in seattle i stayed at a homeless shelter & slept when i woke up i went to a day shelter to shower & i called a friend that took the day off to take me by ferry to bremerton and back to treatment. I filled out paper work and took a UA but ** THIS IS WHERE IT ALL WENT TO HELL ** It hadnt been enough time for the drugs to clear my system that i used prior before entering detox on Friday so i tested positive (which they would of known that IF THEY WERE EDUCATED ON THE PROFESSION WHICH THEY WORKED IN) They said that i couldnt start in patient that i had to go back to detox which frustrated me but i said ok for how long.. they said another couple days then they said No i couldnt go to detox because i wasnt ready for treatment and that until i was ready for to be sober then treatment wasnt going to do anythinh for me. I started crying cuz I WAS SOBER I HADNT USED AND I ALSO CAME BACK WITHIN 24 HR ON TIME LIKE THEY HAD TOLD ME TOO IN ORDER TO PROVE I WAS SERIOUS AND READY FOR TREATMENT. THEN THEY SAID IF I CAME BACK THE NEXT DAY (TUESDAY) THEY WOULD ACCEPT ME INTO TREATMENT BUT AT THIS POINT THESE PEOPLE R A BUNCH ON IDIOTS THAT JUST LIKE TO PLAY GAMES WITH PEOPLE WHO MAKE SMALL MISTAKES WHEN NOT FULLY UNDERATANDING THE PROCESS OF BEGINING RECOVERY.. I KNEW ONLY LIFE AS A DRUG USER NOT THE SIDE EFFECTS OFF COMING OFF DRUGS OR WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN COMING OFF DRUGS IF I KNEW I WOULD PANIC I WOULD OF KNOWN THAT THE FEELINGS OF PANIC WOULD PASS AND THAT I JUST NEEDED TO CALM DOWN & I WOULD still BE in treatment instead of back at square one feeling like i was failed and defeated by the very people who i had thpughy where there to help me. I feel hopeless, disappointed & emotional. Its very sad i have been trying to get clean on my own for 2 years. I wont give up tho i just have to try harder!!!