Providence Place

My boyfriend has been battling addiction for the last 8 years. After rehab he went here and has been sober ever since. The staff at Providence Place were very respectful and cared about his well-​being and success.

Providence place is a great facility to get sober. If your definition of great means an unsupportive network of arbitrary rule makers that don’t really understand how to help people in need. Get through the unnecessarily long intake process and you’ll be immediately received with lecturing house employees whose bullshit they tell you is only matched by their attitudes towards recovery, which are simultaneously apathetic and condescending. If by some chance you unfortunately get admitted the only advice that can be imparted is to avoid the red headed house manager as much as humanly possible. There are always sad little men who are dissapointed with how their lives turn out and use whatever little power they have to try and make everyone around them as miserable and self loathing as they are. The only solace is to understand that its them who have to go home to their boring, monotonous and joyless lives every night. Check your logic at the door at Providence Place, because any rational thought process has no place at a house full of vague philosophical advice that listening to would lead you to a road of relapse. Don’t let their altruistic mission statement fool you because they will place a dollar over the lives of a struggling addict or alcoholic without hesitation. Instead of sending your loved one there you should just write out a check to providence place and then drop them off on the streets of Portland, because that will likely be whats going to happen if you have any slight disagreement with the management. And at least you’ll spare the experience of being put down and will have a little more time to find a functioning place to recover.