Amber Janzen

Review of Fairbanks Treatment Center

I tried to admit my father here after he asked to ...

I tried to admit my father here after he asked to go. I told them he experiences seizures and confusion during withdrawal and they advised me to send him to the ER to get him medically cleared. The ER medically cleared him but kept him an hour later because he was starting to experience withdrawal symptoms. After giving him medication to ease his symptoms we had to wait until the next day to take him to his admission appointment. After about two hours they told him they would not be able to admit him because he was sober by the time he got there and was not experiencing withdrawals! They then proceeded to tell me that his seizures and confusion are likely caused by something else even though I was clear to them that all the medical professionals he had seen up to that point determined that his seizures and confusion were infact a symptom of his withdrawal and if they weren t that the only way to determine what was actually going on was if he were to get sober. Also, how could a professional who works in a rehab facility not know that seizures were common with withdrawals, especially with heavy long term drinkers And how would they not know that it can take up to 6 hours for an alcoholic to even begin experiencing withdrawals? On top of that the hospital that is connected them who have evidence of him experiencing withdrawals the day before wasn t enough evidence for them. So Instead they gave numbers to other rehab facilities. These people do not know what they are doing and clearly you have to be drunk on arrival and have extensive knowledge of your past withdrawal symptoms to get in.