I agree with the above post. These programs and Cross Creek in particular are not good. They are brainwashing and mentally abusive. They take away your identity to mold you into what kind of person they think you should be and then if you question their views or ideas you are "manipulative" or "non working". Programs are a loose losse situation. I have friends who still think the program helped them but they are more screwed up then the kids who dont. They live dishonest and dramatic lives. At least those of us who are telling the truth about these places have nothing to hide. Thanks to being out of that hell hole, I am finding out who I am and being who I was meant to be, not some replica of a program kid. And did you people who "agree" with the program ever think that the ideals and attitudes of the program might not be good ones? I mean you send your kid there or go there yourself to "change your attitude" but what are you changing your attitude to? Just because you think "drug" music is bad, dosnt mean it is. Just because "dressing innapropriatly" is bad in your eyes, it is an opinion not fact. However the program tries to make their opinions and ideas into facts which is just wrong. I am so glad I am no longer a brainwashed kid, constantly scared of screwing up. I feel more free than ever and I give none of the credit to the program. And one other thing, the programs relapse prevention is a joke. They have no clue what they are doing.