Disgruntled clients make me laugh.. really... because people do not understand the process they assume its negative and wrong. Myself I attended Cammilus Centre about 8 years ago and Im in the process of going back soon, actually my phone interview is Thursday and my wife just got back from there 3 weeks ago. Cammilus is the only treatment Centre that offer or incorporate the 12 steps. I have worked in the feild and I am in recovery. This is the only place I would refer clients to. Addiction is a very powerfull disease and takes many lives every year. This place will change your life forever as long as you go there with an open mind.You get what you put into it. Learning to take constructive critisism is important without getting defensive this is why you shut up and say thank you wheather you like it or not. Just think our thinking has lead us consistantly to distructive behaviours. If you really want to change your lives and you have an open mind then attend Camillus Centre. Chris landriault

I attended the family program in early 2013 after some 18 months of clean time and found it to be a great learning experience as a follow-on program from rehabillitation. I note some negative comments in other reviews wrt the use of the f... word. I totally agree that it is unpleasant but I would suggest that it is the patients - not the staff, that speak in this manner. There are many people today who use it so often in everyday conversation, that they do not even know they are doing it. I find it bad coming from the lips of a man - I find it abhorent coming from a woman. I highly recommend this program as a means of enhancing the quality of one's recovery. I would do it again in 2 or 3 years.

While the medical detox side of this hospital center is excellent, the supposed healing side, the Family Program, fails. While the Camillus Center purports to teach The 12 Step Program of Alcoholics Anonymous, what they in fact employ is the WIN method, a humiliating method of public confrontation that permits its victims no recourse. Individuals publically accused of infraction are not permitted to speak or to explain in any way. Instead, individuals, perhaps writhing with the injustice, are permitted only to say : Thank you. The 12 Step Program suggests one "talk things over, reason things out with one another," but in this aggressive and confrontational "Family Program" led by dubiously trained alcoholic counselors whose mental and emotional sobriety is uncertain, harm is done. The opposite of respectful confidence-building occurs here. No wonder there is so much reccurent alcohol and drug abuse. Some newly sober clients, still not strong enough to speak up, feel so bad about the bullying they witness, perhaps regretful they could not manage to speak up, use drugs again when they get out, just to comfort themselves. The Camillus Family Program, run by alcoholics who seem to be addicted to Power, uses the 12 Steps as a cover for another antique agenda. Not recommended.