Alexandria Community And Human Services Board

After a serious discussion with my family I decided to enter a Rehabilitation Clinic to put an end to my cocaine usage. From the moment I entered the rehabilitation facility I was subjected to unwanted attention from the male patients at the facility. At first I thought this would ease off and that the counselors would enforce proper behavior amongst the patients to ensure an environment for recovery existed.Immediately I was confronted by a man who said he had been incarcerated for eight and a half months and have been to this exact same Rehabilitation facility several times. He told me how beautiful I was and I ignored him at first. He kept at it and I told him thank you but was not interested and was only at the Rehabilitation Center for recovery. There was another less aggressive patient who expressed an interest in me that I tried to ignore but he followed me around consistently until I would have to retreat to my room for any peace.I tried to keep to myself and concentrate on my purpose there, but I was given little opportunity. The men would constantly talk about me loud enough for me to hear and was always in vocal. When I asked them to stop they said I thought I was too good for them. Finally in a common area just outside  the director's office, along with counselors and the cafeteria staff present I got into an altercation with 2 patient's, one patient said sexual explicit things to me. One of the things where ' theres alot of temptation in this facility ( pointing to me) and he doesn't want to end up back in jail. I'm very upset that the director, being a woman, didn't say 'hey don't make sexual gestures towards her' I was so hurt. During lunch the patient's continued to throw shade ( meaning: to talk about me in a bad manor) so I said grow up and act your age. One patient got angry and kicked his chair against the wall. His shouting bought the director out of her office; instead of disciplining the aggressor she told me to leave and that I did not fit in. Unfortunately she was right, because I felt constant harassment. The physical threat from the male patient who had no restraint even with counselors present was never addressed.I made the decision to go to rehab to improve my life and trusted that this place would be safe. It's important that the city of Alexandria do a review of this facility before it has more people with problems go through its door or it will merely be a turnstyle.

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