My review is for Jason Chane, the Owner/CEO of Augustine Recovery. Jason and I go way back, including when he was my Program Director, when I was a client at Mark Houston Recovery in Manor, Texas.
Currently, the Augustine Recovery website reads:
"Residents can expect a compassionate and highly disciplined environment."
Has Jason Chane told you, the full story of where he learned all this discipline? Jason, in regards to MHR specifically - I really did not have a good time there, but I think you know that. I mean, I did tell you every day, the same thing. I left my job and my apartment, to go to a detox, and instead I wound up at Mark Houston. Zero detox. Locked in a prison for absolutely no reason. You talked to my family too.
And after all that, you guys took away my PTSD medication, despite no one with any sort of medical background being involved. I have CPTSD. Going 100% off medication at that time was never my plan, yet it was yours. You wanted to run the show, and I was sick for months, lost everything. I know how you justified it at the time - how do you justify it now?
Mark Houston Recovery and other places I know Jason from, are awash with pseudo-spiritual fluff, underneath which, is a shamed based, 'Cureall' version of AA, developed and injected into the AA community by David Elliott and others, like Mark Houston (former CEO of Burning Tree).
You all acted like clients interacting with their families would enable the clients, and so clients were not allowed contact with family. In reality, THIS ENABLED YOU AND MARK HOUSTON AND THE REST OF THAT GROUP, to treat clients in the nasty ways that you did, which I think is fair to say, would have stopped a lot sooner if families were around to see, what they are paying over $10k per month for. It's really and truly disgraceful. You worked there for a while. Look up institutionalized abuse and neglect.
And so you may imagine, when I see you are the head of a Treatment Center yourself now, naturally my first thought was, I hope the Jason Chane I see in charge of Augustine Recovery, is not the same careless man I know from Mark Houston Recovery. And I hope he can have some humility with how many mistakes he has made, even in his long term sobriety at that time.
And not think he is a King in Sobriety, over his employees, his clients, or their families.
The whole staff at Mark Houston Recovery lied, but Jason was my Program Director - do you think everyone lied but him? Read other people's reviews. You know exactly what I'm talking about Jason, but that's what you called part of your program of integrity. You can read my other reviews for more details.
Similar to what you once told me: I hope you have matured into more of a man. Last time I saw you, you were a little boy with too much power. Of course that is the same with Mark and every staff member I had ever met at that place - but that's my point, you guys didn't seem to get any of that. You all were treating everyone terribly. Do you remember laughing at John S when he had a back problem and was bullied by the rest of the community? And now he is dead a long time. Have a quote you feel applies to that? Plenty of interesting memories from Circle.
If I was writing a review for you back then, Jason, it would not be this nice. But it would say something like: I did not find your advice helpful, I did not respect the way you held yourself, and I did not understand how you could so freely use the words Integrity, Honesty and so on, all day over and over, barking in our faces; and then turn around and lie and lie, about who's staying how long, who is going where, how are clients doing when you speak to their family - all that can be done to drive a bigger and bigger wedge between the client and their family.
Maybe you were too conflicted, or too financially involved, I don't know. But you did that stuff every day, Jason. For months directly with me, and you worked there for years. You knew my brother, who was also a client, and I visited him back at that time. Then I went through, and wow, there you are. That place was shameful. And I haven't forgotten.
Jason is one of the people who used to ask me like this: "do you think everyone else in this room is wrong, and you are right?" Easy to say that when you have a big gang of folks behind you. And the question is supposed to be rhetorical, but I do think it warrants further thought - please read what I have to say about Steel on Steel in my other reviews. read more
