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Jonah - 1:38 PM
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I couldn't believe it when I saw the video of the kids at the new Straight Incorporated "motivating", sitting in strict rows and singing childish songs, just like we did in Straight! I was in Straight in the 1980's though, and I keep hearing things have changed in the new Straight programs, so I would like to ask anyone who has recently been in Pathways or Kids Helping Kids a few things: what kind of privacy were you allowed or denied on the toilet or while showering? Who watches "newcomers" when they use a razor? Were you strip searched and made to bend over unclothed in front of strangers on your intake day? Do you still hold "newcomers" by the back beltloop, or link arms or do a leg lock with "newcomers"? Did you ever witness or participate in restraining/holding down another client? If so, why was it done? Were you ever told you were a "druggie loser", and that without Pathways or KHK you would be "dead, insane or in jail"? Is name-calling, i.e., "druggie loser", "druggie whore", etc., still allowed? What were "raps" like? Did you have any privacy to write your own thoughts in a journal without anyone else reading it? Are "newcomers" still forbidden to talk to other "newcomers" unless called on in "group"? Do you still have to ask to get toilet paper or silverware at the host home? Were you ever denied food or sleep, or did you witness anyone being denied food or sleep? How much sleep did you get? What kind of exercise and how much sunshine did you get? Were the bedrooms at the host home locked from the outside, or did the "oldcomer" push a mattress in front of the door at night? Did you ever request to speak to a lawyer, social worker, police or human services worker, or to withdraw from the program, only to be "stood up" in group for it? Was your request granted? Were you informed as to your federal and state rights as a client in a licensed treatment facility, and were you denied any of those rights? Thank you for any answers you can provide.
DrugFreeNow - 12:44 PM
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God Bless KHK and Pathway Family for saving kids and families lives!! Keep up the great work. WDTony, you ain't got a clue!Next >
WDTONY - 5:05 AM
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Kids Helping Kids/Pathway Family Center is a devil in disguise. Don't be misled by the refined explanations and lies that are told by this program. There have been reports of at least 3 kids who had been in the program for over a year and were set back to first phase within the past few months. First phase is hell. First phase is psychological torture. First phase has nothing to do with discipline and this program has nothing to do with rehabilitation. This is a sick program. I lived through it, get as far away from this cult as you can. They are highly deceptive and very convincing. The parent peer pressure is very powerful and will usually produce submission. Go into group and sit with the kids and watch what happens. Talk to the newcomers. Why no tv or music for months? Why can't kids go to CHURCH for months or even more than a year. Do you think God or Jesus wants you to keep kids away from church and school for such a long time? Think about it, this is a sick program disguised as treatment. RESEARCH FIRST PHASE, this is where the psychological breakdown occurs.
twosense - 2/5/2009
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kids need discipline. If i had a child on drugs i would absolutely want them in khk. There is no abuse to stop! The abuse is allowing drug and alcohol abuse to go on and not doing something about it. I've witnessed a graduate of khk become a law abiding part of the community, and i've witnessed a drop out continually abusing drugs and alcohol and still in trouble with the law. which would i chose for my child? seems like a no-brainer to me. God Bless KHK and the families that care enough about their kids to send them there.
DrugFreeNow - 2/5/2009
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God Bless KHK and Pathway Family for saving kids and families lives!! Keep up the great work.
stop the abuse - 2/5/2009
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God bless the children and keep them safe.
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KHK is on the abusive programs watch list all post by me are facts that directly relate to KHK....I'm sorry for those of you who are still being used as mouthpieces for such a place...If there weren't any problems why was it featured on channel 9? Why are so many professionals and experts opposed to teens being treated in this way? It takes away a child's basic civil and human rights. There is no due process. There are so many criminal acts being commited against these children, and you just want to keep the abuse going? The gun has been smoking for quite sometime now! And you refuse to aknowledge it?? I will continue to post the facts and only the facts, not some fanatically emotional testimony. Don't we all know about the validity of testimonials in this day and age? And are you calling the GAO a bunch of crackpots too? “In far too many cases, the very people entrusted with the safety, health, and welfare of these children are the ones who violate that trust in some of the worst ways imaginable,” said U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the chairman of the Committee, and one of the bill’s authors. “We have a responsibility to keep kids safe no matter what setting they are in. With today’s vote, the House has made it clear that these abuses have gone on for far too long and they won’t be tolerated anymore.” “It is absolutely crucial that we keep children safe when they are in these facilities by setting minimum safety standards, and stopping residential programs from using the kind of deceptive marketing that have drawn in so many parents.,” said U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), the chairwoman of the House Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities and the co-author of this legislation.” The GAO’s investigation revealed that teen residential programs may be using deceptive marketing practices and questionable tactics to lure vulnerable parents desperate to find help for their children.
twosense - 2/5/2009
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i personally know a family & child that went through the khk program, nothing but good has come from this program. If not for this program this child would have been in jail or worse. I would recommend this program to anyone that has a child with drug or alcohol problem that loves that child.
DrugFreeNow - 2/5/2009
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God Bless KHK and Pathway Family. Thanks for saving so many lives and families!!
kjn1959 - 2/5/2009
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Readers of these postings, please note that "stop the abuse" has submitted volumes of postings unrelated to Pathway in an attempt to harm a program he/she has no experience with. His volumes of posts are a tactic to drown out the voices of those legitimate posters who have first-hand experience with Pathway. I encourage you to scroll beyond his repeated posts to hear the truth. SandiW, your comments are worth repeating: "This station has done damage through irresponsible reporting. Investigative reporting requires more than a sensational interview. Who are the supporters of Pathway? Crackpots and extremists? Or doctors, lawyers, teachers, principals, school board members, business leaders, community members at every financial level, and family members of graduates? Reporters at this news station were approached by critics of this program. Without doing the required research, an “investigative report” was aired that has damaged the ability of this program to reach those families so desperately in need of its services - “yellow journalism” of the worst sort. Society is not well served when mainstream media acts like daytime “shock drama.” If the reporters had bothered to do any of their homework, the report that they aired would have been very very different. How sad for Cincinnati that they behaved so irresponsibly.
kjn1959 - 2/5/2009
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Dear "stop the abuse" After reviewing your continuous blather on matters unrelated to Pathway Family Center, clearly you have no first-hand experience with Pathway. Experiences that you cite are NOT applicable to Pathway. As a graduate parent, I can attest that none of the abusive practices you mention happen at Pathway. Perhaps they happened at a program you attended, but not Pathway. Why don't you focus on factual, relevent information? But that would be impossible since you don't have any experience with Pathway. Why are you trying to harm a program that is doing such great work, and does none of the things you claim?
kjn1959 - 2/5/2009
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The GAO’s investigation revealed that teen residential programs may be using deceptive marketing practices and questionable tactics to lure vulnerable parents desperate to find help for their children. Among other things, H.R. 6358 would create a toll-free national hotline for individuals to report cases of abuse at residential programs and a website with information about substantiated cases of abuse and any child fatalities at residential programs. The bill would require programs to provide children with adequate food, water, and medical care. And to prevent deceptive marketing practices and create transparency to help parents make safer choices for their children, it would require, among other things, that programs inform parents of their staff members’ qualifications, roles, and responsibilities. It is estimated that tens of thousands of U.S. teenagers attend residential programs each year.
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“In far too many cases, the very people entrusted with the safety, health, and welfare of these children are the ones who violate that trust in some of the worst ways imaginable,” said U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the chairman of the Committee, and one of the bill’s authors. “We have a responsibility to keep kids safe no matter what setting they are in. With today’s vote, the House has made it clear that these abuses have gone on for far too long and they won’t be tolerated anymore.” “It is absolutely crucial that we keep children safe when they are in these facilities by setting minimum safety standards, and stopping residential programs from using the kind of deceptive marketing that have drawn in so many parents.,” said U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), the chairwoman of the House Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities and the co-author of this legislation.” The GAO’s investigation revealed that teen residential programs may be using deceptive marketing practices and questionable tactics to lure vulnerable parents desperate to find help for their children.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 WASHINGTON, DC -- The U.S. House of Representatives today approved bipartisan legislation to protect teenagers attending residential programs from physical, mental, and sexual abuse and to prevent deceptive marketing practices by operators of residential programs for teens. Investigations by the Government Accountability Office have uncovered thousands of cases and allegations of child abuse in recent years at teen residential programs across the country, including therapeutic boarding schools, boot camps, wilderness camps, and behavior modification facilities. Currently, these programs are governed only by a weak patchwork of state and federal standards. The GAO has found major gaps in the licensing and oversight of residential programs – some of which are exempt from state licensing standards altogether. The Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens Act of 2008 (H.R. 6358), which the House passed by an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 318 to 103, would establish minimum standards for preventing child abuse and neglect at teen residential programs. It would require the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to investigate complaints of child abuse and neglect at residential programs and to issue penalties against programs that violate the new standards. The bill calls for states, within three years, to take on the responsibility of setting and enforcing standards for youth residential programs.
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SACRED SCIENCE. The group's perspective is absolutely true and completely adequate to explain EVERYTHING. The doctrine is not subject to amendments or question. ABSOLUTE conformity to the doctrine is required. 6. LOADED LANGUAGE. A new vocabulary emerges within the context of the group. Group members "think" within the very abstract and narrow parameters of the group's doctrine. The terminology sufficiently stops members from thinking critically by reinforcing a "black and white" mentality. Loaded terms and clichés prejudice thinking. 7. DOCTRINE OVER PERSON. Pre-group experience and group experience are narrowly and decisively interpreted through the absolute doctrine, even when experience contradicts the doctrine. 8. DISPENSING OF EXISTENCE. Salvation is possible only in the group. Those who leave the group are doomed.
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drugfreenow you are not stating any facts just your opinion that FACTS AND SCIENCE ARE nonsensical, idiotic, and delisional.... You are saying you know more b/c of your personal experiece in this cult than the GAO, Doctors who are experts on this topic, lawyers, and judges who have won hudge settlements for their abused teen clients inprisioned in these teen torture camps. That would make you the one who is delusional. I writing from the side of science, facts, experts, God, and everything true and just in the world.
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thought reform programs can be distinguished from other social influence efforts because of their totalistic scope and their sequenced phases aimed at destabilizing participants' sense of self, sense of reality, and values. Thought reform programs rely on organized peer pressure, the development of bonds between the leader or trainer and the followers, the control of communication, and the use of a variety of influence techniques. The aim of all this is to promote conformity, compliance, and the adoption of specific attitudes and behaviors desired by the group. Such a program is further characterized by the manipulation of the person's total social environment.
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When successful in inducing these changes, coercive thought reform programs also, among other things, create the potential forces necessary for exercising undue influence over a person's independent decision-making ability, and even for turning the individual into a deployable agent for the organization's benefit without the individual's meaningful knowledge or consent. ....this is what you are doing when you 'thank god for this program' or state other equally self righteous things like 'the program saved our lives'....
DrugFreeNow - 2/5/2009
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God Bless KHK and Pathway Family. Mr Abuse, I will pray for your recovery. Your nonsensical, idiotic and delusioned ramblings are far, far beneath a normal, mostly sane persons ability to respond. God bless you too.
stop the abuse - 2/4/2009
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Margaret Thaler Singer, Ph.D. Recently, cult apologists have attempted to create the impression that the concept of thought reform has been rejected by the scientific community. This is untrue. As recently as May of this year, the new Diagnostics and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) published by the American Psychiatric Association cites thought reform as a contributing factor to "Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified" (a diagnosis frequently given to former cult members). Thought reform (notes 1,2,3 below) and its synonyms brainwashing and coercive persuasion (4.5) were also noted in DSM-III (1980) and is DSM-III revised (1987), as well as in widely recognized medical texts (6.7). Thought reform is not mysterious. It is the systematic application of psychological and social influence techniques in an organized programmatic way within a constructed and managed environments (5,7,8,9,10). The goal is to produce specific attitudinal and behavioral changes. The changes occur incrementally without its being patently visible to those undergoing the process that their attitudes and behavior are being changed a step at a time according to the plan of those directing the program. In society there are numerous elaborate attempts to influence attitudes and modify behavior. However, thought reform programs can be distinguished from other social influence efforts because of their totalistic scope and their sequenced phases aimed at destabilizing participants' sense of self, sense of reality, and values. Thought reform programs rely on organized peer pressure, the development of bonds between the leader or trainer and the followers, the control of communication, and the use of a variety of influence techniques. The aim of all this is to promote conformity, compliance, and the adoption of specific attitudes and behaviors desired by the group. Such a program is further characterized by the manipulation of the person's total social environment.
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Coercive persuasion programs are effective because individuals experiencing the deliberately planned severe stresses they generate can only reduce the pressures by accepting the system or adopting the behaviors being promulgated by the purveyors of the coercion program. The relationship between the person and the coercive persuasion tactics are DYNAMIC in that while the force of the pressures, rewards, and punishments brought to bear on the person are considerable, they do not lead to a stable, meaningfully SELF-CHOSEN reorganization of beliefs or attitudes. Rather, they lead to a sort of coerced compliance and a situationally required elaborate rationalization, for the new conduct. Once again, in order to maintain the new attitudes or "decisions," sustain the rationalization, and continue to unduly influence a person's behavior over time, coercive tactics must be more or less CONTINUOUSLY applied. A fiery, "hell and damnation" guilt-ridden sermon from the pulpit or several hours with a high-pressure salesman or other single instances of the so-called peaceful persuasions do not constitute the "necessary chords and orchestration" of a SEQUENCED, continuous, COORDINATED, and carefully selected PROGRAM of surreptitious coercion, as found in a comprehensive program of "coercive persuasion."< PreviousNext >
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When successful in inducing these changes, coercive thought reform programs also, among other things, create the potential forces necessary for exercising undue influence over a person's independent decision-making ability, and even for turning the individual into a deployable agent for the organization's benefit without the individual's meaningful knowledge or consent. ....this is what you are doing when you 'thank god for this program' or state other equally self righteous things like 'the program saved our lives'....
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1. ENVIRONMENT CONTROL. Limitation of many/all forms of communication with those outside the group. Books, magazines, letters and visits with friends and family are taboo. "Come out and be separate!" 2. MYSTICAL MANIPULATION. The potential convert to the group becomes convinced of the higher purpose and special calling of the group through a profound encounter / experience, for example, through an alleged miracle or prophetic word of those in the group. 3. DEMAND FOR PURITY. An explicit goal of the group is to bring about some kind of change, whether it be on a global, social, or personal level. "Perfection is possible if one stays with the group and is committed." 4. CULT OF CONFESSION. The unhealthy practice of self disclosure to members in the group. Often in the context of a public gathering in the group, admitting past sins and imperfections, even doubts about the group and critical thoughts about the integrity of the leaders. 5. SACRED SCIENCE. The group's perspective is absolutely true and completely adequate to explain EVERYTHING. The doctrine is not subject to amendments or question. ABSOLUTE conformity to the doctrine is required. 6. LOADED LANGUAGE. A new vocabulary emerges within the context of the group. Group members "think" within the very abstract and narrow parameters of the group's doctrine. The terminology sufficiently stops members from thinking critically by reinforcing a "black and white" mentality. Loaded terms and clichés prejudice thinking. 7. DOCTRINE OVER PERSON. Pre-group experience and group experience are narrowly and decisively interpreted through the absolute doctrine, even when experience contradicts the doctrine. 8. DISPENSING OF EXISTENCE. Salvation is possible only in the group. Those who leave the group are doomed.
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Coercive persuasion or thought reform as it is sometimes known, is best understood as a coordinated system of graduated coercive influence and behavior control designed to deceptively and surreptitiously manipulate and influence individuals, usually in a group setting, in order for the originators of the program to profit in some way, normally financially or politically. The essential strategy used by those operating such programs is to systematically select, sequence and coordinate numerous coercive persuasion tactics over CONTINUOUS PERIODS OF TIME. There are seven main tactic types found in various combinations in a coercive persuasion program.
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The tactics used to create undue psychological and social influence, often by means involving anxiety and stress, fall into seven main categories. Increase suggestibility and "soften up" the individual through specific hypnotic or other suggestibility-increasing techniques such as:Extended audio, visual, verbal, or tactile fixation drills, Excessive exact repetition of routine activities, Sleep restriction and/or Nutritional restriction. Establish control over the person's social environment, time and sources of social support by a system of often-excessive rewards and punishments. Social isolation is promoted. Contact with family and friends is abridged, as is contact with persons who do not share group-approved attitudes. Economic and other dependence on the group is fostered. Prohibit disconfirming information and non supporting opinions in group communication. Rules exist about permissible topics to discuss with outsiders. Communication is highly controlled. An "in-group" language is usually constructed. Make the person re-evaluate the most central aspects of his or her experience of self and prior conduct in negative ways. Efforts are designed to destabilize and undermine the subject's basic consciousness, reality awareness, world view, emotional control and defense mechanisms. The subject is guided to reinterpret his or her life's history and adopt a new version of causality. Create a sense of powerlessness by subjecting the person to intense and frequent actions and situations which undermine the person's confidence in himself and his judgment. Create strong aversive emotional arousals in the subject by use of nonphysical punishments such as intense humiliation, loss of privilege, social isolation, social status changes, intense guilt, anxiety, manipulation and other techniques. Intimidate the person with the force of group-sanctioned secular psychological threats.
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Coercive psychological systems are behavioral change programs which use psychological force in a coercive way to cause the learning and adoption of an ideology or designated set of beliefs, ideas, attitudes, or behaviors. The essential strategy used by the operators of these programs is to systematically select, sequence and coordinate many different types of coercive influence, anxiety and stress-producing tactics over continuous periods of time. In such a program the subject is forced to adapt in a series of tiny "invisible" steps. Each tiny step is designed to be sufficiently small so the subjects will not notice the changes in themselves or identify the coercive nature of the processes being used. The subjects of these tactics do not become aware of the hidden organizational purpose of the coercive psychological program until much later, if ever. These tactics are usually applied in a group setting by well intentioned but deceived "friends and allies" of the victim. This keeps the victim from putting up the ego defenses we normally maintain in known adversarial situations. The coercive psychological influence of these programs aim to overcome the individual's critical thinking abilities and free will - apart from any appeal to informed judgment. Victims gradually lose their ability to make independent decisions and exercise informed consent. Their critical thinking, defenses, cognitive processes, values, ideas, attitudes, conduct and ability to reason are undermined by a technological process rather than by meaningful free choice, rationality, or the inherent merit or value of the ideas or propositions being presented.
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Ask yourself if the following criteria apply to the group you are concerned about. A destructive cult tends to be totalitarian in its control of its members' behavior. Cults are likely to dictate in great detail not only what members believe, but also what members wear and eat, when and where members work, sleep, and bathe, and how members think, speak, and conduct familial, marital, or sexual relationships. A destructive cult tends to have an ethical double standard. Members are urged to be obedient to the cult, to carefully follow cult rules. They are also encouraged to be revealing and open in the group, confessing all to the leaders. On the other hand, outside the group they are encouraged to act unethically, manipulating outsiders or nonmembers, and either deceiving them or simply revealing very little about themselves or the group. In contrast to destructive cults, honorable groups teach members to abide by one set of ethics and act ethically and truthfully to all people in all situations. A destructive cult has only two basic purposes: recruiting new members and fund-raising. Altruistic movements, established religions, and other honorable groups also recruit and raise funds. However, these actions are incidental to an honorable group's main purpose of improving the lives of its members and of humankind in general. Destructive cults may claim to make social contributions, but in actuality such claims are superficial and only serve as gestures or fronts for recruiting and fund-raising. A cult's real goal is to increase the prestige and often the wealth of the leader. A destructive cult appears to be innovative and exclusive. The leader claims to be breaking with tradition, offering something novel, and instituting the ONLY viable system for change that will solve life's problems or the world's ills. But these claims are empty and only used to recruit members who are then surreptitiously subjected to mind control to inhibit their ability to think free
stop the abuse - 2/4/2009
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Youths more advanced in the program have authority to tackle the newcomers to the floor to discipline them, even after two previous written citations from HRS. Children are prohibited from communicating with their families until they earn that privilege, which, in Dana`s case, took more than three months. Newcomers to the program have no privacy and are taken by the hand or by the belt loop to the bathroom. Children sleep on floors in locked bedrooms, violating fire and safety standards. Youths do not always have their own clean towels and bedding. Clients do not have qualified counselors assigned to work one-on-one with them. They are not told that they are allowed to file grievances about the program.
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A jury awarded Karen Norton $721,000 in damages Thursday for ill treatment she suffered at Straight Inc., a drug rehabilitation program in St. Petersburg. As a result of an 18-month stay at Straight Inc. when she was 17, Norton said, she still has nightmares, is fearful of counselors and has trouble dealing with her anger. Norton said she was battered and kept at the facility against her will. ""In theory and on paper, this place looks great," said Karen Barnett, Norton's attorney. ""The problem is they don't follow their own policies or procedures." In her lawsuit filed in 1985, Norton, alleged the former director, Virgil Miller Newton, grabbed her and threw her against a wall, screamed that she no longer had ""any rights" and told her she would not be allowed to leave the facility. Norton, now 25 and living in Jacksonville, said she was denied health care and once collapsed and had to be rushed to a hospital for an emergency appendectomy. In her most dramatic testimony during the nine-day trial, she told jurors how she was not allowed to visit her dying grandfather in Jacksonville. When he died, Norton said she was not told about it until after the funeral two weeks later. Norton eventually fled the facility. Joy Margolis, a spokeswoman for Straight Inc., denied Norton's charges and said Straight has changed since Norton was put in the program by her parents eight years ago. Margolis said Straight would appeal the jury's decision.
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The controversial drug treatment facility for teen-agers formerly located in Springfield, is under fire again, nearly two years after it closed its Backlick Road center under pressure from state officials. This time the focus is "spit therapy," a form of punishment allegedly administered as part of the unorthodox center's treatment program. Scott Beatty, a former client, is suing the Florida-based corporation for more than $4 million in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Fairfax County Circuit Court. The suit claims Beatty was "viciously and cruelly assaulted" while enrolled in the program in the fall of 1991. The assaults consisted of "spitting in the face of and yelling at ... Scott Beatty, for approximately one hour with the desired goal to 'make the plaintiff come honest with his drug history,'" the suit stated.
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We have grown increasingly alarmed at the inability or refusal of aging America to respond rationally to clear, dramatic generational changes in crime, violence, drug abuse, mortality, AIDS, imprisonment, and social and political attitudes over the last 30 to 40 years. The future of our diverse society demands more factual, alternative information and discussion than today's stifling consensus. ------------------------------------------------------------ I am sorry you messed up as a parent then found no other way to 'help' your child. There are alot of angry posts from parents or should I say guilty posts...thou protest to much. Soldiers returning from ww1 were called cowards when they showed signs of ptsd. We are still in the early stages of admitting how destructive and damaging these programs really are... but then there are still some ppl who think the holocaust never happened either?
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God Bless KHK and Pathway Family. Mr Abuse, I will pray for your recovery. Your nonsensical, idiotic and delusioned ramblings are far, far beneath a normal, mostly sane persons ability to respond. God bless you too!
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We have grown increasingly alarmed at the inability or refusal of aging America to respond rationally to clear, dramatic generational changes in crime, violence, drug abuse, mortality, AIDS, imprisonment, and social and political attitudes over the last 30 to 40 years. The future of our diverse society demands more factual, alternative information and discussion than today's stifling consensus.
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I am sorry you messed up as a parent then found no other way to 'help' your child. There are alot of angry posts from parents or should I say guilty posts...thou protest to much. Soldiers returning from ww1 were called cowards when they showed signs of ptsd. We are still in the early stages of admitting how destructive and damaging these programs really are... but then there are still some ppl who think the holocaust never happened either?
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Skyrocketing drug abuse by parents and adults in communities--topping 30,000 deaths, 400,000 hospital emergency cases, and 1.8 million arrests--represent dangers to our youth from violent abuse, family breakup, and drug-dealer violence. Yet, when have you EVER heard Congress, the White House, or major media point out that American middle-aged parents' soaring drug abuse represents a danger to young people hundreds of times worse than some cleanup-hitting juicer?
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The latest demagoguery over Monitoring the Future drug-use figures show White House drug czar John Walters and Marijuana Policy Project director Rob Kampia will spout any emotional crap about teens that promotes their political schemes.
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Centers for Disease Control epidemiologist told Congress in November, middle-aged white men are dying the most from abuse of illicit drugs--especially pharmaceutical narcotics, with annual death tolls now exceeding 30,000.
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Kids constantly yelled at other kids trying to get them to admit to drug usage or sex acts they may or may not have committed. Kids were coaxed or terrorized into signing confessions (true or false) of an utmost personal nature. [This is the criminal act of extortion.
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In such a confused, terrorized and humiliated state of mind many kids carved on their bodies just like caged animals often do. So they had to be watched 24/7, even when they wiped themselves on the toilet, to guard them from committing suicide.
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Kids are tortured for information about themselves that can be potentially used to silence the child while his parents continue to pay KHK
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"they lie to us about their drug use, so it's OK to lie to them about treatment, it's for their own good." Of course, the loss of trust this engenders eliminates one of the central requisites of a legitimate therapeutic relationship.
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All such practices begin with a concerted assault upon the individual's personal identity, i.e., an attempt to destroy his or her sense of self and its relation to the pre-existing social matrix.5 By systematically undermining their sense of individual autonomy, target persons can be driven to a state of child-like vulnerability to outside influences, dramatic alterations in beliefs, and in extreme cases, psychotic-like behavior and suicidal tendencies. Deceit, Coercion and Disorientation During Early Captivity.
DrugFreeNow - 2/4/2009
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God bless programs like KHK and Pathway Family. Parental responsibility equates to genetics?? Refute science?? Enough childish talk. Treatment for teen drug addiction is difficult: but in following the 12 steps, and relying on GOD (our Higher Power) and thru the guidance and patience of programs like KHK/Pathway, can be Sucessfully Done. To all who deal with and treat teen drug addiction, KEEP UP THE GREAT JOB.
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you gotta love the way these programs absolve a parent of any responsibility...highly suspect! considering a drug problem is genetic!!! do they refute science also...oh wait yeah they do!!! hello again no excuses we live in the info age...get yourself educated on facts and science...not emotional cultish thought reformed coercive personal testimonials!!
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God Bless KHK and Pathway Family for saving lives and famlies too. READ THIS SLOWLY - > IT IS NOT STRAIGHT!! Check this out on cults: "What are some common cult phobia's? Hassan states that, "Cults try to keep family members who are still in the cult away from ex-members. " He continues, " Programmed phobias can be so strong that cult members cannot imagine themselves happy, safe, and fulfilled outside of the group. They can generate only negative images of life outside of the cult. When they think of leaving the group, they imagine themselves being destroyed, along with all the other non-believers, by the fiery judgement of Armageddon." Cult members only have fear and dread of the outside world" Believe you me, those of us that went thru KHK/Pathway have no fear or dread of the outside world, nor do we wish to remain in program. And we love to get together, in support of sobriety and cleanliness. So we are not a cult, that term is just your "cute" way of labeling someone that believes differently than you.
bhess - 2/3/2009
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STOP THE ABUSE - YOU LOVE TO HEAR YOURSELF TALK DON'T YOU
stop the abuse - 2/3/2009
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Excerpts from The Beyerstein Report on Straight In the fall of 1990 Professor Barry L. Beyerstein, at the invitation of Straight, Inc., visited the Straight treatment camp in Springfield, Virginia and reported his findings in Strategies for Change, New Directions in Drug Policy (1992), by the Drug Policy Foundation, Chapter 8, pp. 245-251, Thought Reform Tactics: The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions. Professor Beyerstein is a leading Canadian researcher on opiates and brain functioning and operates a laboratory at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. Here are excerpts from his findings on Straight. . . . All such practices begin with a concerted assault upon the individual's personal identity, i.e., an attempt to destroy his or her sense of self and its relation to the pre-existing social matrix.5 By systematically undermining their sense of individual autonomy, target persons can be driven to a state of child-like vulnerability to outside influences, dramatic alterations in beliefs, and in extreme cases, psychotic-like behavior and suicidal tendencies. Deceit, Coercion and Disorientation During Early Captivity. Straight, like many religious cults, has maintained its right to conceal its aims from potential inductees. Abetted by usually well-meaning parents, it has routinely deceived adolescents as to the purpose of their initial visit and used psychological and physical coercion to prevent them from leaving.16 Straight's rationalization for this is: "they lie to us about their drug use, so it's OK to lie to them about treatment, it's for their own good." Of course, the loss of trust this engenders eliminates one of the central requisites of a legitimate therapeutic relationship. [p. 247-248] Straight inc. was one of the 1st 'treatment' centers and many programs today follow the exact same format...however more time needs to lapse before reports like these are done on the latest torture camps
stop the abuse - 2/3/2009
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The idea (as perfected by the Communist Chinese) is to strip a kid of all self esteem and then build him back up in the straight image. Life starts anew at Straight and all time before Straight is one's druggie past, even the period when he was just five years old. As in Chinese Seventh of May Academies (brainwashing prisons) kids (12 - 21) were deprived of food and sleep, painfully restrained without cause, spat upon in their faces and not allowed to wipe the spit off, made to urinate and to defecate on themselves (young girls on their period bled in their pants). Kids constantly yelled at other kids trying to get them to admit to drug usage or sex acts they may or may not have committed. Kids were coaxed or terrorized into signing confessions (true or false) of an utmost personal nature. [This is the criminal act of extortion. Kids are tortured for information about themselves that can be potentially used to silence the child while his parents continue to pay Straight's fees (eg. money exchanges hands). The information can be used to keep the kid and his family from speaking out against the program once he leaves and it can also be used to discourage civil suits and criminal complaints.] This bizarre, experimental treatment lasted two years--though Straight officials invariably told prospective parents that their kid might make it through in a few months. In such a confused, terrorized and humiliated state of mind many kids carved on their bodies just like caged animals often do. So they had to be watched 24/7, even when they wiped themselves on the toilet, to guard them from committing suicide. But Straight had no plan to guard them once they left Straight. Over 40 former clients from Straight and follow-on Straights, that we know about, have committed suicide after leaving. (See Straight: Suicide or Murder.[4]) Straight targeted the children of affluent white families and though most clients were teenagers there were some adults in their early 20s as well.
stop the abuse - 2/3/2009
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you gotta love the way these programs absolve a parent of any responsibility...highly suspect! considering a drug problem is genetic!!! do they refute science also...oh wait yeah they do!!! hello again no excuses we live in the info age...get yourself educated on facts and science...not emotional cultish thought reformed coercive personal testimonials!!
stop the abuse - 2/3/2009
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Age... or sex? More than 60% of teens in fatal traffic crashes were not wearing seat belts! the press and highway officials scream, followed by the usual youth-bashings about recklessness, peer pressure, and fearlessness. What, then, accounts for the same study's finding that over 60% of adults ages 21-44 killed in traffic crashes also were not wearing seat belts! The real, unmentioned story: men account for a shocking 73% of unbuckled traffic fatalities. Exploit baseless public panics toward youth crime, immigrants, minorities, new technologies! A far-Right plot to promote conservatives? NO--the disastrous, grossly wrong, fear-everything-new blueprint issued by "Third Way" urging progressive candidates and interests to "get ahead" of conservatives on crime by turning in to conservatives. Internet predators? Another phony panic. Repeated studies find the Internet poses minuscule dangers to the tens of millions of teens who use it and expose the demagoguery of politicians and groups who incessantly depict cyberspace as a jungle of predators, bullying, and seduction. A teen is far safer unsupervised onliine than in church--in fact, any adult who supervises a youth is statistically more likely to abuse his/her than anyone encountered online.
SandiW - 2/3/2009
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This station has done damage through irresponsible reporting. Investigative reporting requires more than a sensational interview - it requires research of facts. To report on a program like KHK, these questions should have been asked and answered: Is the program liscensed? For how long? What are the licensing requirements? Is it based on sound principles? Has this program ever been researched? What were the results? What is the success rates of this program compared to programs of other types? To other similar programs? How many have been enrolled? How many have dropped out? Of those who completed the program, what % lead productive lives? Are the detractors leading productive lives? What is the reputation of this program in the treatment community? Is it recognized and respected for specific expertise? Have books been written about this program? Do they accurately portray the current treatment model currently? How does the story compare to that of the critics? How old is this program? How much money has been raised annually in the Cincinnati community to support KHK? Who are the supporters? Crackpots and extremists? Or doctors, lawyers, teachers, principals, school board members, business leaders, community members at every financial level, and family members of graduates? Reporters at this news station were approached by critics of this program. Without doing the required research, an “investigative report” was aired that has damaged the ability of this program to reach those families so desperately in need of its services - “yellow journalism” of the worst sort. Society is not well served when mainstream media acts like daytime “shock drama.” If the reporters had bothered to do any of their homework, the report that they aired would have been very very different. How sad for Cincinnati that they behaved so irresponsibly.< PreviousNext >
DrugFreeNow - 2/3/2009
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God Bless programs like KHK and Pathway Family. By saying "Messed up as a parent" , this stupid comment shows the apparent lack of intelligence and knowledge "stop the abuse" has. Drug/alcohol addiction is a DISEASE. It has nothing to do with parenting. And exploiting kids?? No, just a life saving program for kids with serious addiction problems. Keep up the great work Pathway Family!! And thanks again for saving so many lives.
stop the abuse - 2/3/2009
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Slander at 6. CBS Evening News' latest hysteria continues to show the news media has no clue how to report the 88% of violent crime and 95% of homicides the FBI reports are NOT caused by juveniles--and no interest in facts. Then, CBS's ludicrous "Secret Life of Teens" series, relying on self-interested net-nanny hawkers and consultants, misrepresents (yet AGAIN) teen-internet life as apocalyptically perilous. Can reporters today say anything fair or accurate about youth... or even new? Oxycontin. Even worse, CBS News has announced yet ANOTHER rehash of "Generation Rx" hysteria, adding to the myth that Oxycontin and other prescription drug abuse is a "teenage epidemic." Yet, in fact, as a top Centers for Disease Control epidemiologist told Congress in November, middle-aged white men are dying the most from abuse of illicit drugs--especially pharmaceutical narcotics, with annual death tolls now exceeding 30,000. CBS is not just a youth-hating network--it and other media outlets are dangerously failing to inform us of critical drug issues.
stop the abuse - 2/3/2009
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Which side exploits teens most shamelessly? The Drug War, or drug reform groups? The latest demagoguery over Monitoring the Future drug-use figures show White House drug czar John Walters and Marijuana Policy Project director Rob Kampia will spout any emotional crap about teens that promotes their political schemes--which proves how little they care about young people. "The children! The children!" Baseball's steroid revelations have brought a new barrage of hypocritical sanctimony about kids, led by former senator and tobacco lobbyist (now steroid investigator) George Mitchell ("our children!"), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ("our young people!"), President Bush ("America's young!"), CBS, NBC, and everyone else flooding the airwaves with cloned terror tales about high school athletes and drugs. Disgusting. Skyrocketing drug abuse by parents and adults in communities--topping 30,000 deaths, 400,000 hospital emergency cases, and 1.8 million arrests--represent dangers to our youth from violent abuse, family breakup, and drug-dealer violence. Yet, when have you EVER heard Congress, the White House, or major media point out that American middle-aged parents' soaring drug abuse represents a danger to young people hundreds of times worse than some cleanup-hitting juicer?
leanette - 2/3/2009
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As a single parent who received no support from my exhusband and father of my son who was an alcoholic and drug addict, I owe KHK/Pathways more than I would ever be able to repay. I have my son back. I'm not going to be one of those parents in denial who have to stand and peer in at their child in a casket wondering what they could have done. I didn't choose KHK without considering several (25 to be exact) other programs, inpatient and outpatient. KHK's success rate speaks loud and clear above the others. There is no abuse that goes on behind those doors. The parents are very involved throughout the whole process. You do not drop your child off and drive away. You participate in their recovery and your recovery as well. Until you have walked in a parent's shoes of having a child on drugs, you cannot fully relate to what we go through. Parents are heartbroken and desparate when it comes time to help their children in this situation. The children are manipulative and habitual liars. They continue to manipulate their parents until the program sinks in and they realize there is a better life - one without drugs and alcohol. I have a son who now will graduate high school, who leads AA meetings, who publicly speaks of his struggles and accomplishments. I am so proud of him and his success through KHK! You should feel shame for giving these negative people who cannot face their child's issues with tough love credibility. They have none, because they've turned their backs on their child's wellness and safety. They have enabled them to be less than they could be and have given them a greater chance at death.
molivia33 - 2/2/2009
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As an Aunt that has been a part of her nephews active recovery at PFC - KHK for the past 16 months I was so disappointed to see the story you ran on this drug and alcohol treatment center in Cincinnati...THE ONLY one of its kind in the entire state of OHIO for struggling teens and their family. There have been hundreds of teens that have graduated from this program and have re-integrated into society. This program works with the entire family. Family's today are being ripped apart by drug and alcohol addiction. Before you air another story of this caliber that has saved lives, please have the courtesy to get the "other side" of the story. This was reckless journalism that could have catastrophic pact on this program and its future funding. Most Insurance companies will only cover a 30 day drug treatment program. 30 days is not what these children need! They need a Pathway Family Center in Milford that works with these kids and their families. The current economy, lack of funding and corporate sponsorship is what closed Milford and most recently the Michigan program. NOT PUBLIC APPEAL! Indy will continue to operate and I thank GOD we have a place that WILL help our FUTURE recover from addiction. It unfortunately takes a lot more than 30 days... It takes a place like Pathway Family Center... If you have any questions - please feel free to contact me! Melissa
bhess - 2/2/2009
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"Stop the Abuse" I get that because that's sure what it sound like to me. And by the way the "program speek" (don't you mean Program Talk) you refer to is straight from AA a program that is very highly respected - are you going to downgrade them as well - nuff said?? GIVE IT UP!!!
stop the abuse - 2/2/2009
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bhess you are asuming alot...Where did you get I was blaming khk or not taking responsibility or that I was not happy? ...all program speek by the way..more evidence to the cult nature of the place. And I am being very responsible in trying to get more ppl informed about the damaging, highly suspect practices of these teen torture warehouses. Why don't you stop your conditioned program speak and take your mind back...that would be more responsible on your part. And thanks for the good laugh... wonderful program.... toooooo funny!
bhess - 2/2/2009
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"To Stop the Abuse" - Maybe you should spend the energy you are using to smear a Wonderful Program on "helping" your child in a positive way - not blaming all their problems on KHK - take responsiblilty! It sounds to me like you are one of those people who just can't be happy unless they try to destroy those that are.
stop the abuse - 2/2/2009
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I am sorry you messed up as a parent then found no other way to 'help' your child. There are alot of angry posts from parents or should I say guilty posts...thou protest to much. Soldiers returning from ww1 were called cowards when they showed signs of ptsd. We are still in the early stages of admitting how destructive and damaging these programs really are... but then there are still some ppl who think the holocaust never happened either?
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DrugFreeNow - 1/31/2009
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Hey stop the abuse: HOW ABOUT SOME FACTS?? First, God bless programs like Pathway Family Webster defines brainwashing as "Intensive, forcible indoctrination, usually political or religious, aimed at destroying a person's basic convictions and attitudes and replacing them with an alternative set of fixed beliefs." FACT: there is no force used! FACT: If you were there and had no "Drug history" shame on your parents for misusing a wonderful program, and, are you telling the truth? FACT: KHK/Pathways has helped many many teens over come drug addiction FACT: For a child under 18, his parents have the LEGAL right to decide on any and all medical treatment,so due process does not really apply. FACT: Did you have an unhappy experience in Program, or an unhappy childhood? Stop being a victim and GET OVER IT FACT: I pray that people like you who attack a teen drug addiction program will get a life and move on to something that is really a problem, like world hunger or poverty
hankfulDad - 1/31/2009
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A common theme running through the posts on this KHK subject is "Saved his/her/my life" - even though some supporters may also have a few issues with it. Nothing is perfect in life and neither was KHK. We parents may have tried our very best to raise productive citizens, but we somehow fell short. People who had "perfect kids" could never relate. Perhaps it was the kid, his/her genetics, or social environment, problems within our marriage and family. Who knows for sure. But, for those of us who entrusted our child's well-being to Penny Walker and her staff - it was HELL living with the child and fearing for his/her life, it was HELL making the KHK commitment, then it was emotional going to meetings, and extremely unsettling to house kids whose backgrounds and psyche/demeanor we had little information about. As KHK parents we lost many of our so-called friends who likely felt we were lousy parents for having a broken child / unable to control him. DIANE NORTON - my wife's brother - a cop - died at the hands of a drug dealer. My child is still alive, doesn't "use", is productive, we don't fear him, he is a better person - having learned responsibility for himself and that it is mostly the CHOICES we make in life that dictate our success or failure. We parents, KHK and the first of 4 years in the military reinforced him. No, KHK wouldn't work on perhaps 30% of kids. Neither does prison. Only death has a final resolution. Abortion programs kill ALL of their subjects. KHK saved lives. I believe the Nortons and a small band of irresponsible winers have done many kids in this area a great disservice simply because they don't have the backbone to admit perhaps it was genetics, family flaws, etc., not KHK, responsible for their claim of PTSD. I call it DENIAL. (No, it's NOT a river. It's a disease, and the Nortons have it bad!) PENNY WALKER and staff: thank you for whatever your part was in our son's outcome in life thus far. He "ran" but his future looks great. (D)
Saved2 - 1/31/2009
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I am a graduate of the KHK program from back when it was in Hebron KY. When my daughter was having drug related problems,I was reluctant to take her to KHK because it is a very intensive program, and I (as a parent)WAS IN DENIAL and wanted to believe that she was only "experimenting" like most teens do. Two weeks after my daughter turned 18, she was arrested for several drug related felony offenses. She is now a convicted felon. She has graduated from "rehab" three times. These rehab programs were the outpatient programs, two of which were intensive - several hours a day for 4 days per week. She always stopped at the bar on her way home from the meeting, yet she graduated somehow anyway. When my son was behaving strangely, I got one of those at home drug test kits. He tested positive. I WAS IN DENIAL, and wanted to believe he was just "experimenting" like teenagers do. I waited a month and tested him again. POSITIVE. I did this over and over again, all the while taking him to see a counselor whom my son had convinced he had ADHD (which I later found out my son wanted prescription drugs - in this case adderall) so he could sell them at school in order to have money to buy marijuana - his drug of choice). One day I realized that my son had tested positive every time I tested him. And, he tested positive for various drugs each time. HE WAS NOT JUST EXPERIMENTING! 2 underage consumption charges later, I WOKE UP! Since I delayed in getting help for my daughter, and as an adult and KHK is not an option for her, and I can see how well the outpatient programs worked for her, I didn't want to make the same mistake twice. There was only 1 place I KNEW helped adolescents with drug addictions: KHK (now Pathway Family Center).While in the program, my son celebrated his 18th birthday, and signed himself into the treatment program, he graduated high school with a 3.2 GPA (up from 1.5 before Pathway) HE BECAME A RESPONSIBLE ADULT! WE WERE NOT ABUSED, we were SAVED
Blessings - 1/30/2009
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Mr/Ms Stop the abuse. You said the program plays on parents fears by saying the kid will end up dead, insane, or in jail. It wasn't program that said our kids would end up dead or in jail; for many of us, our kids had been jailed or overdosed or were close to death. This was all due to their drug abuse due to their addiction. Seeking a program that treats teen addiction is neither abusive or ignorant. What parent would want to bury their child? An ignorant parent is one who doesn't seek help for their child. I'm sorry that you feel so against this program but I can speak from my own experience. This program is not a cult. There was never abuse when we were in this program. KHK gave my son the tools he needs to handle his addiction. There isn't a 'pill' for this disease so he has to rely on these tools. It is such a shame that they had to close the doors here in Ohio because of the economics.
rls1213 - 1/30/2009
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My son graduated from the program and also worked as peer staff to give back to the other kids. He wanted to help them learn the tools of change, work their steps, and skills he learned. Thank goodness for KHK ...it saved my son's life. It was not the program that convinced him to say or think he would be in jail or dead. He knew this for a fact. And for the subject of PTSD... go back to the time of Nazi concentration camps...and if you survived it...then you would have an excuse to have PTSD....compared to that my son states the program he went through at KHK was like a day camp. These kids are not abused..they are given rules, structure, consequences. They are put in loving homes and learn how to function productively in a family setting. I hosted kids for several months and they were provided a safe and loving atmosphere while at my home. I thank the Lord each day for KHK, the parent group for support, and the kids. If we just take the time to listen and not judge, we can learn so much from the program, other parents, and the kids.
hamman - 1/30/2009
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I think the best statment for the individuals who have comment about how the kids are treated and the parents that force their kids in this program should practice the WALK A MILE IN MY SHOES thought pattern. If you have ever lived with a child that was heading down a path of pure self distruction on drugs you woudl do anything to help them turn there lives around. my sone went into KHK at 17 with a strong possiblilty that he woudl not have seen his 18th birthday, he was buying and selling drugs in downtown Cincinnati...many time had guns pulled on him but had no fear becasue he was always high. He was the best at makeing you think everything was OK unitl we go thim into KHK. H was very reluctant at first and did not want to be there but after awhile and he became clean and sober he figured out that his problem was he did not know how to cope with the problems he was haveing to face as a teenager and the drugs was a great coping answer for him. next few months he will turn 21, he may party with pot a little but today he is alive...in school getting great grades in college...working a fulltime job and a great girlfriend and for a parent who thought the world would end if he died because of the drugs...Life is pretty good right now and I and he think if it were not for KHK he may not be here with us today. I would not change one thing we did with my son and KHK and I would only hope that some of the negative things would go away... the only problem with KHK is that it takes money and a lot of family commitment to house the kids every night of the week to keep them safe and help them through some very rough times but most of the kids I housed are now productive members of society and they may not have been if it was not for the time they spent at KHK
ThankfulDad - 1/30/2009
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Putting our son in KHK was by far the most difficult thing we ever had to do. It WAS a very tough program; few of the kids liked it - but then they weren't there because they liked to follow rules, keep themselves safe, do well in school, etc. They, as was our son, were there primarily because their parents were out of options. Our son went from being a happy, pleasant kid and good student - to failing all subjects, hanging out with kids whose lives seemed headed into the toilet too, and a conniving, nasty, sullen kid who was totally out of control, disrespectful, unmanageable. We tried numerous less radical interventions - family counseling, etc. Our son's life and relationship with parents, family, teachers, and the law continued to deteriorate. We were emotionally drained, felt that we and our other kids might be at risk physically, began getting reports from other parents and friend's kids that our son was headed for the deep end - being heavily involved in using drugs. We became very afraid that his actions would cost him his life. He didn't complete the program but we believe it saved his life. After he was 18 he finished high school, spent 4 years in the military where he did very well, has almost completed college and has a very good job and attitude about life. He drinks socially but doesn't use drugs. His friends are good people and we have an open, honest and loving relationship with him, and he with us and with his siblings. We will forever mourn the day we took him to KHK, it was the worst day in our lives, and we'll forever wonder what else we might have done better as parents so as to have avoided all of this, but we'll also always believe that KHK was necessary ...to keep him from destroying himself. At the first new parents meeting the moderator said something like "We're here because perhaps we've done a lot of wrong things for the right reason. Out of love we've allowed our child to have privileges not earned." Perhaps she was right.
skier09 - 1/30/2009
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My son graduated from the Pathways rehab program in 2008, after 10 months. We came to Pathways on recommendation of a high school counselor. He was taught how to communicate and work on emotional health issues. He learned how the drug using had taken over his life, stealing,lying and taking extreme risks AND that it affected many others. It took away the self centeredness of getting the "high" to escape life. He turned 18 while he was in the program and signed himself back in, because he knew he needed more time to work on himself and family relationships. Priveleges of TV, music and going back home were earned by working at honesty and learning how to communicate again. He had to detox and learn how to feel and deal with emotions in a safe venue.
