Testimonials
This place has saved my life.. I could not be more blessed by coming here.. White Sands has saved my life.. Thank you so much for everything.. I feel brand new and I never felt so good about my future ever as I do now walking out of White Sands. So thank you.
Michael N, June 2015
White Sands was an amazing treatment center. Everyone was so welcoming and supportive and it really felt like a loving home. I would recommend this place to anyone who was looking for help. I'm so grateful I was able to come and I will remember this wonderful place forever.
Catherine E, June 2015
I would recommend this treatment facility to many people. It definitely helped save my life. The staff and everyone around the community care very deeply for all the clients, making everyone feel as if they belong. I felt so much love and I couldn't have asked for a better facility. Thanks to everyone who played a part in my being here and my recovery. I feel fantastic!!
Brittany I, Sep 2015
My son, who was in rehab at your facility, has begun to live. You may not confirm nor deny he is there- LOL. My heart is so full of joy for him ? when he decided to go he was very sick. He?s a recovering addict/alcoholic along with that he learned how to hide many emotions. Through treatment he began to realize a lot of things. He knew he was an addict/alcoholic but had no idea how to peel himself back like an onion so to speak. So he felt for the first time too!!! He took the tools you taught him, and has incorporated them into his life. He attends both N.A. and A.A. meetings, goes to therapy, and has a new group of friends. He has a lot of things to through although he does this with a new found way. He talks different, behaves different, and today I see the man emerging from ?the shell? he once merely existed in.
Thank you all!! This is his journey, his foot work, I have faith in my lord and Savior Jesus Christ who has kept me off meth since 1995! All because I was told through a meeting of N.A. you never have to use again. I sincerely thank you, each and every one who interacted with my son in WhiteSands you gave him the tools and he used the tools. God has made him whole and today he has over 2 and a half months clean, thats a miracle in the eyes of an addict. God bless you!
CR, 53
When I got to White Sands I couldn?t see the point in going on another day. After 6 years of heroin use there was no drug that I didn?t do and I couldn?t live without being high. I was court ordered to treatment, which had happened before, but this time it was different. The people there made sure I didn?t get sick and suffer a bunch of horrible withdrawals without a fix. I?m sure that being here saved my life, and today I feel like I finally have a chance to make something of myself. Even my family has started talking to me again, something I thought would never happen. Today I see that it was my addiction and not me that my family resented and shut out, and if feels really good to finally have them want to be around me.
Sam Krugger, 26
I didn't lose everything before I went into treatment, I just couldn't honestly get through my day without a drink. I always thought that I had control and that I wasn't as bad as an alcoholic, I just drank because I wanted to. I thought I could quit so many times on my own but every time I ended up right back at the bottle. The first week in detox was the worst part, I don't know how bad it would have been if the doctors didn't help me through that. It took about the first month to feel like I was clear headed, but the second month is when I started learning that the obsession to drink wasn't my fault but a symptom of my disease of alcoholism. I learned that my body would continue to crave alcohol but as long as I stayed sober the obsession would stay away. I was able to get involved with the 12 step meetings at White Sands and it changed everything for me. For the first time ever I felt like I was around other people that understood me and didn't judge me for my weaknesses. My counselor helped me make decisions for a positive change and encouraged me to continue on in the program. For the first time in my life I feel like I'm going someplace and not headed down a dead end road.
Paul Phiefer, 28
Before I got into treatment my issues with anxiety only improved when I used drugs and alcohol, I got high just to be able to live. After years of pain and frustration I felt like my life had passed me by and left me behind, I just had no will to go on. I had gotten in a lot of trouble with the law and seemed I couldn't do anything but fail. I just wanted to quit life. But during that month at White Sands I finally had doctors who cared enough to help me sort out my anxiety and showed me that maybe there was a better solution to my problems, and that not all of my problems were my own fault, but many were because of my untreated mental disorders. Now I have a regular therapist that I see once a week and I feel like my life is on track for the first time. I actually have gotten so much out of outpatient right after being in the inpatient program and I suggest it highly to anyone who needs help helping themselves out of the desperate situations and chaos their addiction caused.
Brad Jennings, 33
When I got here I just wanted to die and was completely without hope. While I was in treatment I rested and ate regularly for the first time in years. During my stay I learned that there were issues I wasn't aware of that prompted my using and kept me using all those years, I only wish I had come here sooner. I could have saved myself 10 years of misery.
Carla Branchford, 31
Through the process of the in-depth evaluation assessment I learned that I wasn?t a bad person but a sick person. No one ever identified my mental disorder and that it could be treated and how much better I would feel. I owe my doctor everything for caring enough to see the underlying problem to my craving to self medicate with alcohol, now I know there is a safe alternative that can help me have a normal life.