There are plenty of privately run ‘residential workcamps’ for addiction recovery. Many have been controversial in taking advantage of the working residents and providing little to no treatment or using questionable protocols such as Cenikor and Granite Recovery. These groups charge entrance fees, receive government and insurance funding and keep most of the earned income from overtime workweeks that leave no time for whatever they call therapy. These groups have labor contracts with businesses and residents may work with outside employees for a small fraction of the going salary, which is collected by the group for ‘expenses’. The program completion rate is 56% with high recidivism. The recidivism rate of completed programees is almost one third. The problem is the money becomes the focus of these groups and the therapy can be wacky (group scream/shaming and shunning for example) and problematic. Some groups are better than others, those are super duper pricey and out of reach for most. The existing professional mental health system has great approaches but is too unobtainable financially for most and many more therapists would be a good thing.
