Comments, of which there were many, have been oddly removed. This was not me.
📣 Update: Please Read This Transcript
Hi everyone-if you’re following this petition, I’m asking you to take a few minutes to read a powerful transcript of a conversation I had with a lawyer.
You can view it here:
🔗 [Transcript Link](https://www.rev.com/transcript-editor/shared/axSOxwwqJjxY1-PpTW1E3YzpWFfJV8BmIJRhPfXnuQ-eKAvsmF50EH_FpQ_pGS_CyMwXBN14mSDnRv3fCP4FP8UE4tY?loadFrom=SharedLink&fbclid=IwY2xjawJUPUdleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHb_o30EUEiHelpL6I0e8Ox5tU-4mLnRzUwX7I-XFGDx_aPqwBDFVxRQe3w_aem_6NHPROCyaOCKM1i3TeLjzA
This is not just commentary-this is from a verified legal professional who worked directly on a case involving someone who died at this very facility.
🧠 He explains how these places legally operate without being licensed medical facilities, and why the law protects them more than it protects the people inside.
💰 He lays out how corporate recovery centers use addiction as a profit model, relying on volume over care—some using strip mall therapy offices and barely supervised apartments, even involving people with criminal records.
⚠️ He describes, in chilling detail, how a 17-year-old girl was gang raped inside one of these facilities by fellow residents. And how the system separates LLCs to avoid liability.
🛬 He details a case where someone was put on a plane while in the midst of a psychotic episode and handed over to an undertrained staff member posing as a “counselor.” That same facility later had a cook promoted to Director of Intake.
🧑⚖️ He says it outright: the best hope for change isn’t regulation—it’s lawsuits. And he’s seen it firsthand.
It’s a sharp, grounded conversation that speaks volumes about the systemic issues surrounding this facility. For example: the debate over a restrictive gate—which, according to the attorney, would “change the nature of the services being offered.” And yet? Without a gate, people in psychosis have run into traffic and died.
These were individuals encouraged to fly across the country while actively unwell, seeking help from a facility that isn’t truly medical. The sad truth is: this place stays open not because it’s great, but because it fills a gap—a gap where people fall when they can’t afford $70K-a-month treatment in Malibu or private care in the mountains of Sedona. Or they were lied to about what this placed offered, versus what truly happened on campus.
It’s a liminal space: a holding zone between jail, the streets, and some version of help. The ones who die, relapse, or get hurt? Their stories rarely make it into official records. They’re often discredited simply for having been there. The stigma sticks.
And if you’ve been through something similar, your voice matters. Even if they don’t want to hear it.
The silence has gone on long enough.
The Cost of Silence, the Reality of Negligence
It’s heartening to see that fentanyl-related deaths are finally being taken seriously. That kind of progress matters. But no amount of reform can bring back the lives that were lost—or undo the damage done to those who were poisoned under the guise of care at AAC facilities.
Time might make some things feel less raw. But try telling that to Diane Nicolosi, who lost her son in their care. Or to the mothers in the comment sections. And the fathers. The friends. The families. The communities who will never see their loved ones again because of negligence at the hands of this facility.
We can debate policy all day—funding, state law, federal gaps, corporate loopholes—but at the end of the day: no one helped. Diane Nicolosi was even sent a bill for her son’s urine analysis after his death. That’s how disconnected and soulless this system has become.
For those interested in the real roots of this issue, here are just a few pieces of background info on River Oaks Treatment Center—an AAC-owned facility in Florida that once served at-risk youth and infants, and is now one of many properties operated by a company scrambling to claw out of bankruptcy:
📄 Bankruptcy Filing (AAC Holdings, etc.)
https://dr201.s3.amazonaws.com/aac/schedules-sofas/SOAL%2020-11651.pdf
📞 911 Call Log to River Oaks (12012 Boyette Rd) since 2005
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17pQzHKrrMCTi9YQuK4g_GbYT2GImSrcy/view?usp=sharing
📊 Palm Beach Professional Group – NPI Database Registry
https://npidb.org/organizations/allopathic_osteopathic_physicians/psychiatry_2084p0800x/1952734873.aspx
📚 Transcript: My conversation with a corporate lawyer who worked on a death case linked to this facility
https://www.rev.com/transcript-editor/shared/axSOxwwqJjxY1-PpTW1E3YzpWFfJV8BmIJRhPfXnuQ-eKAvsmF50EH_FpQ_pGS_CyMwXBN14mSDnRv3fCP4FP8UE4tY?loadFrom=SharedLink&fbclid=IwY2xjawJUPUdleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHb_o30EUEiHelpL6I0e8Ox5tU-4mLnRzUwX7I-XFGDx_aPqwBDFVxRQe3w_aem_6NHPROCyaOCKM1i3TeLjzA
This lawyer is a verified source who has worked on a case involving someone who died at this location. His insights are brutal, sharp, and sincere—cutting through the legal insulation that protects corporations like AAC while patients continue to die inside.
If you haven't already, please sign and share the petition. This isn’t just about one location. It’s about a systemic failure to protect the vulnerable—wrapped in wellness branding and buried under red tape.
📝 [Sign the petition here](https://chng.it/Vrxgvppbnt
Because no one else is going to speak for them.
The following entities were listed as debtors in the AAC Holdings bankruptcy filing—though it’s important to note that many of these names have likely changed, merged, or been rebranded since:
Recovery First of Florida, LLC; Fitrx, LLC; Oxford Treatment Center, LLC; Oxford Outpatient Center, LLC; Concorde Treatment Center, LLC; New Jersey Addiction Treatment Center, LLC; ABTTC, LLC; Laguna Treatment Hospital, LLC; AAC Las Vegas Outpatient Center, LLC; Greenhouse Treatment Center, LLC; AAC Dallas Outpatient Center, LLC; Forterus Health Care Services, Inc.; Solutions Treatment Center, LLC; San Diego Addiction Treatment Center, Inc.; River Oaks Treatment Center, LLC; Singer Island Recovery Center LLC; B&B Holdings Intl LLC; The Academy Real Estate, LLC; BHR Oxford Real Estate, LLC; Concorde Real Estate, LLC; BHR Greenhouse Real Estate, LLC; BHR Ringwood Real Estate, LLC; BHR Aliso Viejo Real Estate, LLC; Behavioral Healthcare Realty, LLC; Clinical Revenue Management Services, LLC; Recovery Brands, LLC; Referral Solutions Group, LLC; Tay Media LLC; Sober Media Group, LLC; American Addiction Centers, Inc.; Tower Hill Realty, Inc.; Lincoln Catharine Realty Corporation; AdCare Rhode Island, Inc.; Green Hill Realty Corporation; AdCare Hospital of Worcester, Inc.; Diversified Healthcare Strategies, Inc.; AdCare Criminal Justice Services, Inc.; AdCare, Inc.; Sequoia Diagnostics Laboratory, LLC; RI - Clinical Services, LLC; Addiction Labs of America, LLC; AAC Healthcare Network, Inc.; AAC Holdings, Inc.; San Diego Professional Group, P.C.; Grand Prairie Professional Group, P.A.; Palm Beach Professional Group, Professional Corporation; Northampton Medical Group, A Professional Corporation; Oxford Professional Group, P.C.; and Las Vegas Professional Group - Calarco, P.C.
Their corporate headquarters were located at 200 Powell Place, Brentwood, TN 37027.
P.S. I want to sincerely apologize for the silence. It’s been two years since I launched this petition. Since then, I’ve been through my own waves—highs and lows, mental health struggles, even paranoia around writing this update at all. But please know: my intentions have never changed. This is still deeply rooted in anger, in grief, and in a need for justice—for how much their policies affected my life, the stress they caused, and the way I was so randomly and carelessly released as well. The empathy for other's struggles, including being poisoned on campus. Which I witnessed on more than four different occasions while there....What got to me the most? Just how much I had to "dig" to uncover each case....It was not that easy. Furthermore, how mind numbingly sad it is to see people's families destroyed when they were just seeking help for what are treatable medical conditions. Conditions that are vilified and turned into agents of control for how notoriously damaging they can become in all spheres of influence, within and without. Difficult? Yes. But not insurmountable.