Useless Help: The Truth Behind the Indiana Center for Recovery Center

Secrets Have Emerged About The Mistreatment and Handling of Patients at the Indiana Center for Drug & Addiction Recovery in Bloomington, Indiana

A former employee is now speaking about the mistreatment and abuse they had seen while working for an Indiana drug rehab center.

A user on Reddit on the Bloomington page spoke out about the mistreatment and abuse at the hands of the addiction treatment center, “Indiana Center for Recovery — Alcohol & Drug Rehab Center”, located near downtown Bloomington.

The user, who once lived in Bloomington, went to the center after spending close to 10 years as a user struggling with an opioid addiction.

They went to treatment centers multiple times until the user went to Michigan and got treated and stayed clean starting in 2021, according to the post.

The user stated they worked as a behavioral health technician for two different facilities in two states including in Bloomington where they even worked as a technician for the Indiana Center for Recovery.

The user now lives in Michigan, but shared the message on Reddit to describe her trauma at the Indiana Center for Recovery, with a lot of shocking claims coming to light about the mistreatment and lack of skill required as an employee of the drug rehab center.

The user, who was a former drug addict turned employee, was interested in getting involved in the program’s Alcoholics Anonymous program as they needed help.

Everything seemed normal between the healthcare management and the owners of the clinic who offered the user a job at the center.

The user said, “There were a lot of genuinely good-hearted people working there for expressed real care for the job and the patients, which is not easy to find in this field.” After just a few weeks of working there, however, I became more in tune with how their program works.

The user reportedly mentioned that in the patient’s recovery efforts, they had a choice to pick their level of treatment and way of care, drug treatment or mental health treatment.

They claim the mental health treatment is “purposefully misleading in a heinously malicious kind of way,” as mental health patients struggle to be in the same building as drug addicts.

Similar to how Bloomington Meadows Hospital, a mental health facility in Bloomington, houses young kids ages 5–9 with teens 13–18.

This creates a heavy drift between the two levels of care as suicides and unstable mental health patients get little to no care, and according to the post, mental health patients who have jumped on balconies have to live on a first-floor balcony while recieving seven hours per day on classes and programming.

“Most of their other time is considered downtime where they are free to roam the campus.” The user said. “The rules and policies of the facility are the same for both tracks of clients and aren’t deviated from for any patient’s personal or special needs.”

Throughout the user’s time at the center, she had seen a fair deal of trauma at the center.

This includes seeing a patient with reported schizophrenia and suicidal ideations and was locked in a room for over 24 hours and was allowed out for just bathroom breaks.

Another incident discussed on the post said a patient with severe Autism shoved an addicted patient with no repercussions except the victim of the attack was arrested and not the patient with Autism.

The level of inexperience the staff have is troubling.

According to the post, Behavioral health technicians working basic entry-level positions for $14 an hour are expected to know how to handle random psychotic episodes on their own.

Therapists and class facilitators are not required to even obtain a high school degree, college degree, or experience in counseling for drugs and alcohol, nor any professional medical license of any kind to work with clients.

The patients at the facility need professional help. With this unprofessional help, patients are prescribed the same addiction painkillers they had taken before going to the center to help with treatment.

This even includes patients being prescribed Xanax and Adderall to drug addiction patients which is both dangerous and has cost many addicts their lives.

To end this article, there was one more quote that struck a nerve with the readers that has never been released on the web to talk about the level of trauma these patients and staff go through at the center which explains how this corruption continues to happen in the system.

“The majority of people in need of mental help are justifiably unstable and experiencing serious issues in their personal life, that’s why they seek help.”