Clay Erickson - License Revoked for Drug Abuse

Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Ridge Creek School / Hidden Lake Academy

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Deborah:

--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---Did you look at your own dates? 13 years ago
Do you know this man? Have you met him, talked to him? Recognized that he went back to school and retrained in counseling after leaving the medical profession?
Your interest is just in belittling a person to make a point about an institution you don't like.
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What credential does he possess that would qualify him to hold the position of Addiction Counselor? Did you recognize that ACs must be certified?

Troll Control:

--- Quote ---The bottom line is CHILDRENS' HEALTH, WELL-BEING, LIVES, AND FUTURES ARE AT STAKE. That should be the most important issue
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Yes, it should. However, HLA puts its own FINANCIAL health and well-being above any concerns for its patients' health and well-being. This has been proven over and over again by the testimonials from former staff members - it's the NUMBER ONE REASON they state as to why they left HLA: "All HLA wants is money. They don't care about the kids."

hmmmmmm:
.....and again, there is the issue of him being in charge of the dispensary. You would not appoint a "self-proclaimed vegetarian" fox in charge of the hen house would you? Just my 2 cents worth!

Anonymous:

--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---Did you look at your own dates? 13 years ago
Do you know this man? Have you met him, talked to him? Recognized that he went back to school and retrained in counseling after leaving the medical profession?
Your interest is just in belittling a person to make a point about an institution you don't like.
--- End quote ---

No, some of these people may not have met or interacted with Mr. Erickson, but I sure as hell have. For 23 months. I know the incompetency of this man as an addictions counselor, and also as a sponser to other alcoholics.

Also, coming from a family of recovering alcoholics (my mother is a recovering alcoholic with 17 years of sobriety under her belt) and spending most of my childhood and young adulthood in the rooms of AA (when she couldn't get a babysitter), I think that I have an acurate benchmark to measure Mr. Erickson's competency as a role model for addicts.

All of Mr. Erickson's dealings with his "patients" (whoops, I mean students, this isn't a therapeutic institution, right?) was a joke! Sitting alongside of us in AA meetings sharing his own opinions and understandings of the recovery process, I got a very good idea of just how this man worked. And it's not the way a person who had worked a successful recovery program would handle things.

ONE, the AA program clearly states in its 12 Traditions (the BASIS and HEART of the AA program) that all dealings with sponsorship or aid to other addicts/alcoholics are to be STRICTLY non profit. I'm pretty sure that Mr. Erickson was NOT working at HLA pro-bono. On the contrary, he was a part of a corrupt institution guiding young and impressionable addicts in inappropriate ways for LARGE sums of money. That in and of itself is a compromise of his morals and of his dedication to his so called "Recovery Program".

So before you go and take the prespective of how dare we deny this fine man another shot at a successful and meaningful life, I think you should take into consideration what it means to be an active and positive member of a 12 Step Program and see that he already voluntarily gave that up.

Edited by Moderator to remove "Quote Deborah". Quote was not mine.

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