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Firefighters attempt to extinguish a fire in a home on Jan. 8, 2025 along the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. A wildfire broke out in Los Angeles County on Jan. 7, which has destroyed more than ...
Promises Treatment Centers are a for-profit provider [1] of residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation that started out with facilities in Malibu and West Los Angeles, California. [2] It was founded by Richard Rogg in 1989 and acquired by David Sack of Elements Behavioral Health in 2008. [ 3 ]
Passages Malibu Addiction Treatment Center, known as Passages Malibu, is a for-profit addiction treatment facility located in Malibu, California and founded by Pax and Chris Prentiss in 2001. Passages Ventura opened in 2009 in Port Hueneme, California .
Residential treatment centers for children and adolescents treat multiple conditions from drug and alcohol addictions to emotional and physical disorders as well as mental illnesses. Various studies of youth in residential treatment centers have found that many have a history of family-related issues, often including physical or sexual abuse.
The probe began in 2022 as child welfare advocates called for increased oversight of youth treatment centers following high-profile incidents of abuse and deaths at facilities around the country.
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This industry is not without controversy, however. The U.S. Surgeon General (1999) discussed the need to clarify admission criteria to residential treatment programs. [33] Included in the same report was the call for more updated research as most of the residential research had been completed in the 1960s and 1970s. [33] [dead link ].
Drug rehabilitation is the process of medical or psychotherapeutic treatment for dependency on psychoactive substances such as alcohol, prescription drugs, and street drugs such as cannabis, cocaine, heroin, and amphetamines.