Complaint Review: The Lakes Rehab - Copperopolis California

They are located on a lake surounded my multi-million dollar homes but the facility is a old run down white elephant motel.

The pictures shown on U-Tube are of a once a month selective few that are taken on the lake by the owner's boyfriend in attempt to life spirits.

I was unfortunatly connected through a broker that would not take my calls once I found out what was going on.

He had a hard time finding a facility that would take someone who needed a wheelchair and the Lakes lied about haveing a room ready as it was all torn up from rug to shower.  I had to carelfully climb two flights of stairs to the detox room which was very painfull until I had my medication switched from Morphine to Suboxone which couold have been done easily as an outpatient.  

They use Quacks in the Methenphedamine capitol of California "Georgetown" or near by " Sonora" where you are seemingly misdirested to the Dr's office before seeing the facility.  The Dr screems at you after you are seemingly arrested and told to emply your pockets, not touch the handle of the toilet, give a uring sample and wait with you nerves shattered and wondering what have I done!

The Doctor comes in a extreamly small room screeming more and stating he can not help you because you are loaded when "I was only on what my licenced physician perscribed for me and drove myself to his office after being re-directed from the facility".  I got up and left, passing an employee from the lakes that has seen this many times.  

The Doctor told me to get my car out of his parking lot now or he would have it towed!   He then said if I drove I would be arrested.  Imagin who come to the rescue? The lake employee that allows all this to happen and dose not warn me of anything.  My mind is so ratteled by the thought of being arrested due to volinteering to switch from perscribed Morphine and Oxycodine use for chronic pain for the past 7 years for a medicine called Suboxone.  Why Suboxone was never offered to me in the past is a concern as the DEA, CA Med Board and DOJ are attacking Doctors for attempting to treat chronic pain paitents.

I am a victim on a Vaccine Reaction where I contracted Gillian Barre' and Neuropathy that caused my feet go feel so hot that I neither were shoes, stand or commnicate clearly without proper medication that took 4 years of the 11 I have suffered to figure out.  I was given my normal medication for ADHD or Fatigue and Clonapin as I have taken both sucessfully along with the Opiates believing that the laws were pertaining to the Opiates and this is why I could not find anouther Doctor after recient one was repromanded for having her Daughter write perscriptions wile she took Mexico Vacations wile under retainer as a Concierge Medicine Practice.  Targe would no longer redeam her perscriptions and the last one was redeamed at anouther chain that had not caught up to her yet.  This exact situation happened the summer before when my long standing Concierge Medical Practice lost it's licence without notice by the Ca Medical Board because my careing Doctor missed a question on a continueing education class and only found out when a patient did a U turn from a drug store and told him his licence was suspended after he had just spent 1/4 million dollars upgrading his practice.  He packed up and sent out everyone records and moved to Moscow where he could actually help people leaving me with no medicine and I went though the worst 4 months of my life until I found the next Doctor that increased my Oxycodone.

This new Doctor to her trip to Mexico and had her daughter "Hair in Shirley Temple hooker hair doo, Fish net stockings, mini skirt and Mall Rat clothing" tell me it was a business decision that my medication was being cut wile waving and lunging at me with a pencil in her hand.  Nurse in the background smirking and waiting for me to blow up though I took amy lumps to Target where I was turned away and went to different chain and worked for a month to try and find help to switch to new medicine called Suboxone.  

I made the bigest mistake in trusting the owner of the Lakes bernadette that can be reached at the email I provided who have an amazing phone voice and persona but if questioned turns into a snake with blue eyeshaddow being on the edge of 60 years old and in good shape thinks she can get away with tellling you familly one thing and the patient anouther.  Your cell phone is taken away and your phone nubers are locked inside along with my wheelchair and cane locked in my van with support personel complaining that they are told to bring me food that is too greazy for someone who is detoxing.  

The pictures look great from a distance and the lobby is freshly painted but I found myself surounded my criminals doing drug drops in the middle of the night to suposed fishermen crossing the swimming rope.  I was too much for too little when I just needed the medicine Suboxone and after recieving it twas like magic and within hours I was fine.  I never abused my medications or had them taken away.  I fired my Smack Pushing Doctor as she tired to shuffel me off to some other practice when I hired he on retainer ( cash out of pocket ) plus PPO insurance everymonth and now am labled a drug addict.  This dose not need to happen to those like me who just need pain relief with Suboxone being hard on your teeth causing me to loose my entire lower bridge and Suboxone just being approved for pain without addiction along with Belbuca wich is a low acid medicine with the same active ingredients I am now being switched to so I can leave the addiction stigma behind hopefully.  I think the Lakes did some kind of reporting on me that has stained my Police Record, DEA or something due to a later practice trying to take clonapin and ritalin away that knew my condition was not addiction but chronic pain and I did not need counciling though they put me though it anyway with eroneous comments in my records just like the lake did.  Do not make this mistake unlesss you are a hardened drug addict and know it and need to join a 1000.00 a day 12 step program, chances are you can do this as an outpatient and go to NA for their meetings.  I was boooed out of NA due to needing medication to keep my nerve damage under controll.  Your condition is not under concideration in a non-medical facility like "the lakes".  They will say anything to get you on your way and divert you to a quack that will not help you if you leave and will allow the lakes to commit what is in my  opinion Kidnaping.