Aegis Treatment Centers LLC

Zero fucking stars. The manager literally expects you to put the program before your job. How you support your kids and your family, how you keep food in their bellies and a roof over your head. Also, this ageis requires that you go to one counseling group and one peer group per week. Insurance only requires that you do one counseling group oh week. Also, they are not sympathetic to medical issues or family emergencies. If you miss a counseling appointment-​be prepared to sit in their lobby for two or more hours. They will also deny your dose. The girl behind the front desk, Maria, and the week day dosing nurse are both sweethearts and the only reason why people continuingly come back to that company. Do not get on methadone. It is worse than heroin and will suck the life right out of you and turn your soul black. Due to their scheduling, you will lose your job and anything else that requires you to be somewhere on time. If you become a part of this program, I suggest doing the 21 day detox. It works, it got me clean, and it was my own personal decision just screw up and then be put on maintenance-​which is a never-​ending story of driving fucking for cities a way to get a cup of liquid that makes you feel like shit but keeps you’re withdrawl symptoms at bay. Avoid methadone like the plague.

I do not understand The draw to this place, for instance my insurance has only this facility under their recommendations so I assumed I would save a lot of money if I went to this place because how different could a methadone facility be from the next…
The male doctor was this old man with a heavy accent who reminded me of the doctors you see when you pick up your marijuana card. Devoid of emotion empathy or joy. Everything online that I have found and I’m assuming you’ve already looked at by scouring the net for research if you were looking at this… States that you have better success with 80 mg and 100 mg and up… Depending on the program you will start out only as high as 40 to 50 so don’t plan on giving up your vice just yet if you have a high tolerance now I know for safety reasons many places probably go this route. But that among other information are the pieces that no one tells you about at this place you have to do your own research or else you’re just depending on some stranger who cares very little for you so please read as much as you can. Also if you have insurance you should definitely contact them your self and then contact the company billing because I am going on five weeks now and my insurance said they told them I was covered maybe four weeks ago… and yet the snotty woman at the desk looks at you and gives you a sarcastic reply like you’re trying to get treatment for free. Please don’t get me wrong everyone else but this person has been very courteous and understanding but this woman should not work any sort of customer service let alone something where people’s health and life are in her hands.
Bottom line is if you do not have to go to this place and have maybe shopped around and found something slightly more expensive trust me it will be worth it the inside of this place looks like an abandoned building. I may be sounded harsh on the faculty of this place with a bunch of the people are fairly friendly but the first doctor that I was told scheduled to see and the lady that I constantly daily have to be in contact with because you must go to this place daily makes me wonder how anyone would want to come here if they did not have to go.

Despite the idea that methadone clinics want to get you hooked on methadone indefinitely (which may or may not have truth to it), Aegis in Simi Valley has legitimately caring staff and counselors who really take a personal interest in your life and your sobriety from street drugs. The front office staff are sweet and friendly, and the LVN administering your daily dose is great! The counselors are also insightful and really listen to you when you’re talking to them. Even the clinic manager, who despite coming off as detached and aloof, makes herself available to everyone who needs to speak with her. Overall this place really is great, and they change lives everyday, mine included. I would definitely recommend anyone struggling with addiction to check this place out, it can and will save your life if you immerse yourself fully in the program.

If I could give 0 stars. I would. This manager is heartless and SHOULD NOT be in the field of «compassion». This lady is nothing but the devil. She gets you hooked on methadone. And drops you from the program when you show progressions. This place should be raided and everyone be tried for their ruthless actions on their so called «patients»

I have been a drug addict off and on for most of life… I moved here from southeast in a small town and have always been surrounded by narcotic pain relievers… My weight has fluctuated a lot and I’ve slept pretty hard subsequently I have really bad back pain and ended up getting prescription of my own for Norco and percocet… Long story short, one pill every 6 hours… Turned into four months later over 10 pills every single day, going here has really given me hope!
With this as well as everything else in life. One must take ownership of their own actions, and work the program to their benefit… I am currently doing a 21 day detox where they’re going to establish my comfort level as far as what milligram of dose to give me, for a reasonable amount of time… And been decreasing daily only 5 milligrams each day until I will be «hopefully to God» Off of all painkillers!!! Theres plenty staff, counselors, etc… And they really seem to be working to help you, you never have to wait a very long time to get dosed… They also do their best to find any thing they can refer you to, at all for a meeting, individual counseling, group counseling! Come on, if you have a problem just admit it to yourself like I did… They can’t help you unless you admit that you have a problem as they are not «pain management»…