Five years ago, I dropped my drug-addicted husband off at Cornerstone, a $35,000 program for which…read moremy insurance and I paid. I wish I had listened to the many Cornerstone professionals (like Scott and Lin) who told me how hard life was going to be with my husband's many psychological issues they diagnosed accurately within the first week. Their advice to me was to divorce him because he would never be faithful, never be truthful, never be ethical, never be compromising, and NEVER care for anyone but himself. He suffered from Narcissistic Personality Disorder, severe abandonment issues, severe codependency, pathological lying, and many other serious mental disorders, they told me.
Being newly married and pregnant (a non-viable pregnancy because of my husband's long-time and serious drug abuse), I stayed by his side. Five years later, we are divorced. Six months after he began working as a pharmacist again, he stole drugs from work, powdered them, cooked them, and shot them intravenously in our bathroom. (I secretly reported him for this, but his pathological lying got him out of two program-ordered urine tests.) A month after that, he filed a lawsuit to evict his own mother from the family farm that was in his name. (It didn't work, and now he is estranged from his mom's family.) Six months later, he began an extramarital affair with his married technician. Then he made false reports to 911 to try to have me evicted from our house. (He was arrested and evicted instead.) A year later, he has lost his pharmacist license permanently and is working fast food drive-thru. He is also facing criminal charges for harassment, intimidation, HIPAA violations, and CSMD violations.
This may sound like anything but a success story for Cornerstone, but my husband's failures were not Cornerstone's fault but his own. The mental health professionals quickly and accurately diagnosed him, told us both hard truths, did their due diligence to help him, and supported him in getting his professional medical license reinstated. They afforded him every opportunity to change. My review is to thank Cornerstone for trying to help my husband. My review is also for family members to understand Cornerstone is a reputable rehabilitation facility, not a magic pill. Success ultimately depends on the patient. Cornerstone is a superbly staffed and operated drug rehab program.