Bowling Green Brandywine — Local services in New Garden Township

These reviews and the people writing them are so misleading. People that left AMA, family members being manipulated by their children... This place saved my life. On top of that they cared. People are pissed because this place doesn't hold your hand or coddle you. Life isn't easy and it isn't fair and this place tries to prepare you for that. If you want a chef and a personal trainer go to Passages. If you want to learn how to live clean - come here. They taught me the in's and out's of the Twelve Steps. How to go to a meeting, raise my hand and ask for a sponsor. To leave my ego at the door. They taught me that my best ideas got me high and that maybe it was time for me to shut up and take suggestions from people who have actually been able to stay clean longer than the time it takes for my dealer to answer the phone. The detox here was great. I didn't HAVE to attend the meetings the first couple of days but after about 48-72 hours they started to suggest and then strongly SUGGEST I SHOULD go. That it would help to get on my feet and that it would help to speed the detox process up. Not to mention so that I could get all the help I could why I was there. Not just physically but mentally and spiritually. The guy that said it's a MILE walk between the barn and the cafeteria is a f-ing jackass! You walk across a freaking little parking lot for God's sake. It's like 30 feet at MOST. The food is okay. Not the best but not the worst. It's definitely nowhere close to jail food. Plus your in rehab. This is not meant to be a 5 star hotel. When I was there I had a room I shared with one other guy with a desk, under bed drawers and a closet that ALL locked with the padlocks we were given and STRONGLY encouraged to use. You are sharing space with fellow addicts that may be much worse off or much less ready to get better. Things WILL go missing if you are not diligent. The whole time I was there the only people who had things stolen were people who were too lazy to lock their belongings up because they didn't want to take the time to unlock the locks when they needed their things. Your told every morning to take what you need because the rooms will be locked for safety. They don't want people who may be withdrawing from benzos or alcohol to start feeling ill then run off to their room and have a seizure and hurt themselves and not get the immediate care they need. That's why your locked out. So staff can always have a constant eye on you. Btw there are cameras EVERYWHERE. Just because you can't see the nurses doesn't mean they are not watching. That's what they do in the locked back room by the dosing line. It's filled with a huge CCTV bank/medications. When I was there we had a volleyball tournament for everyone who was medically cleared, a chess tournament, movie night on Friday, talent show on Saturday. Many groups, speaker sessions by both techs in recovery and outside speakers, in house AA or NA meeting, an outside meeting on Sunday (they came to us). I did only see my counselor for a one on one 3 times but this is a 28 day program! In what world do you have an hour session with a counselor more than once a month? The first time I met him we set up a treatment plan, the second we had an hour session and the last time was my aftercare plan where he single handedly convinced me to go to a 90 day half way house which solidified my long term recovery. They worked hand in hand with the aftercare plan we set up to achieve the things I wanted out of my recovery. Getting my family back, becoming self sufficient, staying clean for longer than a few days, learning how to live like a normal person without having to be high, etc. I could go on but there's no point. It all boils down to this: No one will get clean until they are ready to get clean. An addict will get high on the moon and can stay clean in a shooting gallery. You just have to be ready and this place is a great start in learning that. I now have 4 years clean, am a certified recovery specialist and I'm starting my first semester towards becoming a D&A ...

THE ONLY REASON I GAVE 1 STAR WAS BECAUSE I HAD TO IN ORDER TO POST THIS REVIEW. Ive struggled with addiction since I was 13 I am now 30. I did have an 8 year time period of being clean. During that time ive worked for an impatient treatment enter and a program for men's housing. unfortunately I had a relapse and paid tremendous for it. I went to Bowling green. during the first phases of entering treatment I was treated with great respect. I was made to feel that my health and wellbeing was number one priority. I swear it seemed like everyday I spent there the more I was forgotten about. I was there for 17 days before I left AMA. I NEVER met the counselor that I was assigned to. I had to hunt down counselors to try and receive help. After about 5 days there I was sent down to the rehab portion. I was prescribed to medications that I never received. starting on my 4th night I noticed that I was sleeping less and less but I just assumed that I was going through normal withdrawals. But 2 days later I was not sleeping at ALL. not one second. this really stated to effect me mentally. I went to clinical staff and nursing staff and told them that there was something seriously wrong with me. the nursing staff was at first was caring but the counselors were very biased and offered absolutely no kind of support besides (your going through withdrawal (which ok I understand). at about the 4th day out of detox I still was not sleeping. this was beginning to become unbearable. my mind was becoming very unhinged. excluding a few nurses literally NO ONE was coming to talk to me or offering me any support. and even at this time I was still not given any of the prescription medications that I was prescribed to. on the 5th night my mind began to crack and I started to experience delusions. I confronted the staff about an event that took place earlier on that night. when I went back to try and sleep apparently the medical staff finally realized that something was wrong because the said event never happened. I was taken to the hospital where I was just sent back. the next day it was like nothing happened. Not one person came to talk to me. Not one person asked me if I was ok. No one came to me to check in on me. I eventually had to hunt down staff where I was once again turned away. It took me walking off the property to get someone's attention. I still was not given any of the medications that was ordered my the doctor. after walking away and my symptoms getting worst I was finally moved closer to the medical desk. I think everyone gets the idea of my experience at this Satan influenced place. Now the main point in all of this is that I 100% blame myself for what I did to my body and do not one bit blame what I went through on Bowling Green because I was the one who chose to put the drugs in my body. This is where it falls on them. they are the professionals they are the ones that are entrusted with the responsibility to take care of and watch over and insure that the clients that come to their program are safe and receive the best possible treatment. my 7 years working in the drug treatment field I never not once let a client go without talking to me. Especially a client that is suffering like I did. A person with a passion to help others would not have to think twice about seeking out people in need. It blew me away that not one counselor, tech (counselor assistant), medical (nurse, Doctor) not one staff member sought me out to talk to me after I experienced what I did. that is their wrong doing. If I had the power I would shut that place down. The only thing that place is good for is getting addicts high, allowing people to meet their future baby daddy/mom. it is a disgrace to the field of drug and alcohol treatment centers. they collect about $15000 per client that comes through there and still have the audacity to charge most of their clients deductibles and copayments.

please do not go to this facility. there are other places out there. maybe if people start refusing to go there they will have no choice but...

Bowling Green Brandywine and The Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) saved my life! Phil Carbo was my initial Counselor on Campus and he was amazing as a Counselor And a friend! I spent 19 days on campus and after that was transferred to the PHP program. I became the house manager there. I was a client there for 29 days, so 48 days in all. Counselor Kendra Childs, partial houses clinical supervisor Andrew MeadowCroft, partial and bowling Green's aftercare specialist Heather Lawhorn, and partial programs director Denise Derr are all top notch counselors, program directors, and human beings! Heather was my aftercare counselor. After thinking she wasn't able to get something done for me, Heather Was in tears on her way home my last night there. The fact that she thought she couldn't get something accomplished for me had her in tears. That is somebody who really cares about her job. Her clients and helping people are Heather's only two concerns! That story alone says a lot about the partial program and the bowling Green Brandywine treatment facility and staff! The place was five STAR in my opinion and trust me, I've been around the block. I've been the many programs and It was the best of them all. Probably better than all of them put together TBH! Heather and Kendra already had it done! I was so stressed out December 12th, the night before My tentative discharge date of 12/13/2023 I arrived the next morning and all my worries were already taking care of!! Kendra and Heather were already in contact with Easy Does It, the place I'm currently at now. Kendra, as I told you just a few days ago, I don't know what I would have done without you as well! Denise Derr, the program director and the big boss of partial house even personally came to pick me up to make sure that I made it to my transitional house on time on the date of my discharge!! I've never been anywhere that a director goes out of their way to hand deliver you to your transportation driver! She and I struck up such a good conversation about life recovery and bowling Green! She cared that much! Generally speaking human beings don't care. In my opinion, if it wasn't for these people, I'd probably be back in jail!! All previously mentioned BOWLING Green employees went out of their way to make sure that my needs were met and that I was insured a lifetime of sobriety and a happy future for myself and my family! God bless all you guys and I love each and everyone of you! I almost forgot I left out. Tom, Dominique, Amber, Greg and Sarah. They are all amazing people that are techs at the partial program and also all went out of their way to make sure everything ran smoothly. The only negative thing that happened there was I had two pairs of sweatpants stolen out of the dryer on Halloween night. Michelle McIver, bowling Green's CEO personally took down my address and is sending me two replacement pairs. One was a pair of Michael Jordan sweatpants and the other was a pair of Kobe Bryant Nike sweatpants, a gift from my loving Mother! For Michelle to take that into account and ensure that she sends me something to replace them is very reassuring, it also speaks a lot about Bowling Green. The CEO is amazing, every counselor I came in contact with was amazing, and from the nurses to the techs even to Howard the maintenance guy....they are all caring, kind individuals! So from the top of the chain to the bottom, everybody at Bowling Green is a class act. You really do get out What you put in to life on this planet! Bowling Green and it's staff is/was a prime example of that! I put in positivity and good vibes and that is what I received in return, top notch treatment! I don't know how else to say thank you but I will try to pass it on to the next person and maybe who knows one day I will be working there with you guys!...