Community Action Against Addiction [CAAA]
reviews and complaints

This place doesn't care about clients all they care is about a policy number to charged state insurance like medicaid or medicare and even if you are still struggling they wouldn't raise your dose and if continue use is present your [censored] is out of the program no interegredy for patients that are still suffering you are just a dollar$ sign to them shame on them

I and my client has C AAA I agree about dr. Williams he's very unprofessional but Mrss Boone is my counselor and she has helped me tremendously I understand by reading your blog the hurt and pain and turmoil you went through and my heart goes out to you but my experience has been different

Dr.Jerome Williams and Kathleen Boone a counselor are the reasons that clinic should be shutdown. She has no business being allowed to act as a counselor, she is very miserable person at the best and a psychopath at the worst. Dr.Williams was fired from Cleveland Clinic at Fairview because of his sexual fetish of pregnant women. He's been indicted multiple times to. The Community Action Against Addiction methadone clinic had to hire two female health care workers to treat the pregnant women there. He'd finally touched the wrong one, she raised hell and he was replaced. Although he is stil! practicing there!. He is such a horrible man, no client want near him..male or female. Pregnant or not. He runs that p!ace through sheer dominance and fear mongering!. And I'M one those two have abused for to long, I found this site because I'm looking for the proper place to turn them in to. They can't be allowed to get away with abusing clients any longer.

I too am on methadone and have been for 21 years. It saved my life in so many ways. I almost destroyed my fathers business with stealing money. He was ready to kill me and himself. I am very happy to say that the best part of my life was the past 18 or 19 years. It took some time to adjust and change the stinkin-thinkin. So the first year or so she may get better but won't be perfect. She didn't become a professional drug addict overnight, so same goes for her recovery. Don't allow people to shame her because she chose methadone as appose to a 12-step program. They both work and this is how I can describe the difference between drugs & alcohol; take a sheet of paper and right in the middle draw a horizontal line. Well normal people's feelings are right there in the middle with exceptions of times where they're are extremely happy their mood will go an inch or so above that line. And times of sorrow or slight depression as the mood goes below that normal point. Opiates make a normal person go from that middle of the road point to the top of the page that is a feeling of utter euphoria. After awhile they crash down to a a few inches under what normal is. Then they can't stop craving that euphoria so they get high again. And the next crash is even lower then the last. However each high the euphoria is good but it too gets lower with each time. So eventually they are basically using just to feel normal. Alcohol gets you high, but never that high. This is the same with crack. These two drugs are extremely powerful in the way that they act in the brain. That's why methadone Works great for all opiates. Unfortunately not for crack. Methadone blocks any euphoria from any opiate used. So eventually the user will stop using because they realize they are just wasting there money. I had surgery and was taking Vicodin ES and thank God I felt no euphoria but it still took the pain away. Methadone is a GOD SEND. I own my home it's $180, 000 paid for as of 2009, I have an office building and tenants, etc. If methadone didn't exist I'd be dead I believe or in some flop house somewhere drooling on myself. I too do NOT BELIEVE ANYONE AT THE CLINIC WOULD JEOPERDIZE THERE JOB SO A CLIENT COULD GET A CLEAN URINE. NO WAY. i realize any things possible and the people that work there are human and you got pieces of crap in every profession. But I just don't see where a worker would benefit. Cuz I'm sure your wife ain't rich that's usually what gets us all to the methadone clinic. Just sick and tired of chasing around to get high or normal.

I know for a fact that people are not allowed to go into the bathroom alone to do urine screnes at CAAA. I am a client there. The methadone program at CAAA saved my life. There is always ways around drug tests. It does not matter what program you attend. It sounds like your wife is not ready to stop using, and it sounds like you have a lot of resentments. You should stop blaming CAAA for your problems. If your wife is not ready to stop using heroin, then there is nothing you or anyone else can do. Believe me if she continues to use, she will get caught, and she will be taken off the program. It is only a matter of time. I dont know what I would do without the help from CAAA. I am going to school and I am on the path to a better life. Finally, I found a treatment that works for me.

YOUR WIFE'S DISHONESTY IS NOT REFLECTIVE OF WHAT THIS PRORGAM IS ABOUT. HAVE YOU SPOKEN WITH HER COUNSELOR? WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO HELP IN TERMS OF FAMILY COUNSELING? IN MONITORING IT IS IMPERATIVE TO MAINTAIN THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN BEING. A POSSIBLE SOLUTION WOULD BE TO CONTACT HER COUNSELOR AND ASK THAT A SWAB TEST BE GIVEN. REGARDLESS, IF SHE IS USING ILLICIT DRUGS IN CONJUNCTION WITH HER MEDICATION, IT SEEMS INCUMNBENT UPON YOU TO HELP TO TRY TO SAVE YOUR WIFE'S LIFE. SHE IS SICK WITH A DEVASTATING DISEASE. WHAT WOULD BE THE SOLUTION IF THIS LIFE SAVING PROGRAM WAS NOT AVAILABLE? YOUR EFFORTS DID NOT SUCCEED OR ELSE SHE WOULD NOT BE IN MMT. I ENCOURAGE YOU TO TRY TO HELP HER AND WORK WITH HER COUNSELOR. BEING CRITICAL OF A PROGRAM THAT HELPED SAVE HER LIFE MAY NOT BE AN OPTIMAL SOLUTION. WOULD YOU ADVISE THAT SHE BE BARRED FROM MMT? THEN SHE MIGHT DIE AND YOU WOULD HAVE NO COMPLAINT. CORRECT? LASTLY, URINES ARE MONTIROED BY COUNSELORS. SHE MAY HAVE PREVARICATED OR CONFABULATED HER STORY.

Absolutely agree, it's a shame!

Totally agree, as my friend is doing the SAME THING!