I have personally spoken out against this place an...

I have personally spoken out against this place and will always speak out against any facility that violates human rights and freedom of choice to the extent Logan River Academy does. Let me start off by stating the obvious, no treatment will ever work unless the individual who is being treated wants recovery. It's common sense. Logan River chooses ignore that fact due to the insane amount of profits they receive from families looking for help for their children. They attempt to use a tactic known as behavior modification which in reality is just another way of saying brain-washing. Behavioral modification or brain-washing or whatever you want to call it, is morally and ethically one of the worst things you can do to another human being, especially a kid because of how impressionable they are. By sending their children against their will to faraway treatment centers not only do parents run a severe risk of the program not working and wasting their money, they also run the risk of further worsening the condition of their child when they get home. Many kids come in with drug-related problems, others do not. By mixing those 2 groups together you end up with more drug addicts leaving LRA then coming in. I went there about a decade ago, and can tell you from personal experience Logan River has done nothing but damage me. I have nightmares and flashbacks to this day, of my horrible time spent here. I would liken being in LRA to being in prison. You have little to no contact with the outside world, isolation rooms in a detention area, and corrupt overaggressive power hungry staff members bullying "patients" who are treated more like inmates. Except, unlike prison, instead of being sentenced and given an expected release date, you are left with nothing but uncertainty. Some kids stayed upwards of 3 years. It's a very traumatic experience being locked up not knowing whats going to happen to you.

I have a quote from one of the greatest lawyers of our time Paul Morantz, who fought against this evil industry back in the 70s. " It reasoned that success stories generally had little to do with the programs themselves. It s first example, naturally, as failure, was Synanon, and like Synanon, its clones became the darlings of the media and politicians in election years. The problem of these programs was it was believed it was justified to use any means, denying human and civil rights and treating people who didn t need treatment; all this done without any proof that behavior modification programs ever worked. Further, it is foolish to treat all persons in the same manner. Neither AA, Synanon, or those that followed, were based on any scientific studies. Rather, the organizations said they worked, so people believed it." Paul almost lost his life when one of these organizations, a similar in fact the so-called grandfather program to LRA, attempted to kill him by putting a derattled Rattlesnake in his mailbox for trying to expose the horrors of what went on there.