Recovery Point of Bluefield

First let me start off by saying that if you were never a client here your review is meaningless. I was a client for three months, and this program puts up an incredible facade. Here are some of the sketchy things that happen behind the walls: - They sign you up for food stamps, confiscate your card, and use it to buy food for everyone in the program, including staff. - Staff and alumni can come into the kitchen and eat anything they want, but the portions for clients are very small. Once I had a breakfast tray that consisted of 1 sausage link, 1 boiled egg, and a 4oz scoop of oatmeal. - The kitchen that serves these meals is infected with cockroaches. - Group punishments are an acceptable form of "discipline". When I was in the program, two clients were caught with a phone, which led to about 40 of us being put on "lockdown", during which we were not allowed to use the phone to contact our families for 2 weeks. No visitations either. We wrote from the Big Book of AA from 5:30 AM to 9 PM. - Medications are administered not by medical personnel, but by random staff members that work the desk. In fact, there aren't any employees that work full time in the building that are professional trained and qualified to provide healthcare services. - When WVARR came to ensure RPH was in compliance with their regulations, they sent nearly every client out of the building and had the peer mentors pretend to be new clients. I wonder what they were hiding? - The staff and certain peer mentors make a game out of punishing people, seeing who can get the most clients in trouble for that day. - Another form of punishment is a "restart", in which the client has do the entire program from the very beginning again. Clients may get restarted for things such as horseplaying, or being 1 minute late past curfew. - Over 11,000 people have come through this program, but only about 400 have completed(3.6%); the statistic that RPH loves to tote is not this, but the "success" rate, which is almost certainly fabricated. All in all, this program is corrupt, unneccesarily and ridiculously punitive, toxic, and just a flat-out negative and miserable place to recover. Even though some of my peers were wonderful people, I wish I never stepped foot into the door. RECOVERY POINT SUCKS!!!

The complaints about the program from family could potentially be from their master manipulator residents who are looking for a way to justify leaving. I know, I was one accept everyone was done listening by the time i went. The complaints from Alumni,,, Everything changes and at 2:30 a.m., they are asleep, leave them alone. The building isn't supposed to be comfortable. It's not the Hampton. It's a starting point for Recovery. It's a place if personal discovery, acceptance and overcoming our self-induced crises with like minded people, staffed by those who did it already. It's not for everyone, but it could be, if you want it. There will never be a perfect rehab. It's addiction treatment. The help is there, again, if you want it and will get up everyday and get it.

I may have not went through this program but I am friends with everyone that is going through right now. This is where my AA home group is "STW" every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 6 pm. These meetings have helped me grow in my recovery and has helped me find a lot of good friends.

Well I went there to visit.... Even tho it was 2:30 am. Now mind you I completed the program become alumni and it's like I wasn't even welcomed we were all supposed to be brothers and close as that's was my house for almost a year and got treated like I was nobody when I showed up..... What has this place come too it's really sad they want you to stay in contact but how can someone do that that don't feel welcomed

Hanging on the wall are photos of 57 men who completed the program and are now deceased due to a drug overdose….and I’m sure there have been many others as well. The kitchen is filthy and is roach infested, family is supposed to be the support for the recovering addicts but aren’t allowed to attend meetings on certain days nor do they allow you to sit by your loved ones they get x amount of dollars for Ebt each month for 95 men and are being served very small portions of food each day consisting of like chicken nuggets and other foods you would feed a child and no offense to anyone on here but there’s not one staff member in the whole facility that is certified to do the duties of where they are stationed I’m sorry for this rant but I had to get it off my chest I wouldn’t send my worst enemy to this place and there is so much more I could say about this place but I’ll just leave this here for the moment and post updates as I go

I called today to get information about detox programs they may have available. The administration main line was answered by the rudest person I've ever encountered. One thing I can say after being on this merry go round is that rudeness is the backbone of each of these facilities. Each one will say I'm different, but they aren't. You get more flies with honey than vinegar.

Never been here before but have watched it turn a couple friends lives around and headed them down the path they needed. Nothing but positive thoughts on the place.

I went to Parkersburg and graduated in February 2019 n I have remained sober. It will be 5 years in April. I would like to thank Robert Diddle, Jimbob dalton and Travis stringer. I appreciate the amount of love and support they gave us!!