Recently there was a posting up about a former Peninsula Village patient who died mysteriously. Now we know it was an overdose.
Here's a link, with postings from friends:
http://crimeblog.us/?p=111#
# ssj3g0tenks Sep 19 2006 / 5pm
Look YOU GUYS, here is the TRUTH on AVNITA GHUMAN that I guess nobody knows about.
Avnita since i believe was 17 or so, got involved in a cult popularly known as Alchoholics Anonymous. She became highly active in the ?young peoples? subgroup at a place known as ALPHARETTTA EXECUTIVE CENTER off of Old Milton Parkway in Alpharetta, a north fulton suburb of atlanta. But i?m getting too ahead of myself. i?ll come back to this soon.
Ok first of all, Avnita was taken to a ?treatment center? called Peninsula Village in Louisville, TN. This is a treatment center that is becoming increasingly notorious for the brutal mistreatment of adolescents. A few years ago, they had a law put on them by the state (citation needed) that prohibits them from enforcing harsh physical punishment (known as consequences there) upon patients. Sadly, this was after Avnita was admitted there. She was at this hellhole for around an entire year. Well, as most patients who come out of this place, it didn?t take long for Avnita to go right back to drugs. But she did however get involved in this AA program. She started to go to this place , especially on thursday nights at 8:00 PM (where the ultimate trendy people hang out - crap getting ahead of myself again). Let me take this opportunity though to inform you all, that this place, which is intended to make people healthier, really sets people up to be even more insecure. The best way to describe the people there is like high school - where cliques, who?s the most attractive, who?s the coolest, and who?s the snobbiest, will yield many social connections you have in this program. You probably now see where i?m getting at. Avnita poured so much time into these egregiously conceited individuals that she failed to realize that she wasn?t making healthy friendships. Avnita was a member of AA for 4-5 years and it?s really sad because she was so friendly. But personally from what I saw , Avnita was a girl that had the potential to have a great future. Most of those people in AA are people that whether or not they will go back to drugs are people that will leach off their parents for the rest of their lives while being either unemployed or at best a job at starbucks. Having said this, from everything I saw, as much as Avnita wanted it, she COULD NOT GET feelings of social satisfaction from her AA peers. I remember talking to her on multiple accounts, hearing her tell me how upset and hurt she felt towards these people. But as much as I want to say that it was because of jealousy that they didnt like her, i am not 100% sure on that. But it makes a lot of sense to me that the reason she struggled so much with substance abuse is because she got so desparate to impress the people of AA that she so very badly wanted to befriend but never seemed to get what she deserved. The crime itself, just a little on that, my personal belief is that she overdosed and the people she received methamphetamine from didn?t want to get in trouble when they found out she died so they hid her far away so they wouldn?t get a manslaughter charge.
Let me conclude by saying that although Avnita was the most unfortunate example of being the victim of AA abuse, she is certainly not the only example. Over the past year or two, Alpharetta Executive Center, along with a couple other places in the metro atlanta area known for hosting young people?s AA meetings, have been critisized for these problems. Imagine when you were in high school and there were tons of kids who were immature , cruel etc. but have gotten older over the past several years. The greater majority of them are now mature, humbled college students, while a small group of them still act that way. This small group of people perfectly describes that AE group.
