Stonington Institute

Claim to be a mental health intuition but will disresfrully call you crazy and make fun of you for you struggling they also like to lie to your probation officer too get you violated. They lied and said I fought too people when I never did . It's dirty I was sick from going there. Complete un professional do better people .

Was there through the holidays 12/23-2/24 the staff on the residential side didn't care about the residents they were there just to get a paycheck most of the time they were sitting in the common areas watching tv or playing poker with patients they over medicate a lot of the patients most of them couldn't stand without falling over. They don't have a certified nurse dispensing medication it's up to the staff which most of them used to be addicts them selfs only required 1 year sober they shouldn't have access to other people's meds I had some of my meds go missing and learned that many of the other patients had some of there meds go missing also. During my stay they locked several of the bathrooms in the common areas and refused to unlock them the food is horrible and only given water to drink besides dinner time The school side had a lot of councilors that cared and helped as much as possible to them I say thank you for what you do and for helping us as much as possible your the reason people learn how to cope and remain on the path to sobriety To other addicts reading this remember. PROGRESS NOT PERFECTION

I contacted Stonington Institute when a family member agreed to go to detox and was in a severe crisis. Stonington seemed interested but are very poor communicators. When we arrived to be admitted, we were told to "drive around for a couple hours, until the blood alcohol level is lower". In the end, they were unable to handle a medicated alcohol detox and my family member was sent to the hospital to detox. After a hospital admission, and a promise of a place in rehab, they did not properly process the hospital paperwork, nor did they communicate to us about the process. They didn't have a place for my family member and did not care. No amount of explanation regarding this crisis could convince them to help in any way. When we went to pick up personal items left at their facility, they could not find them and were ready to send us away without them. They simply did not care in the least. For a facility who is supposed to be handling people in crisis, they did a terrible job. Their words do not match their actions. My advice, go somewhere else.

I just spent a week in the detox center in North Stonington and I can't possibly express how amazing my experience was. I was broken, beat down and withdrawing from alchohol so badly. The staff was amazing, supportive and kind from beginning to end. Even the food was top notch (I've been to a few others that "food" was a loose term at best) For the first time in many years I really feel like I have hope to stay sober this time for good. I start their IOP program tomorrow morning and I'm looking forward to a life worth living without booze once and for all. Thank you all so much for being there to help us at our worst and to show us WE CAN RECOVER 🤘🤘🤘

I was in the troubled teen program. I don't know if they still run that? Hopefully not. It was traumatic. I'll advocate against those my entire life because of this place.