Good luck talking to Beth about it; you will be told you are in addiction and have the whole thing turned back on you. What I can tell you is that I had my mail stolen from me for about 6 months. My room mates were taking it and forwarding it to someone else. When it happened to show up in my room after moving from one choices house to the other, all bundled up in a rubber band, it had all been opened. The mail was from a family member who they wanted me to throw away. That is a federal crime.
Furthermore, CCC is bound by HIPAA, the HEALTH INSURANCE PORTABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT to provide you a copy of a detailed notice in writing of there privacy practices. Additionally, it is a Federal Crime to disclose medical information such as Hepatitis, much less is really poor taste. They need to be reported to Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. I am very familiar with these laws, as I am bound by them. For further information, go to their Web site: [
www.hhs.gov]
Good luck, I know what you are going through, I was there for a long time. If you have the means to get out of there, I highly recommend it. However, that being said, I also recommend that anyone leaving Choices or any other counseling center that doesn't have any serious length of sobriety under their belt, or is still suffering, to find another place to go. After 7 years of choices, I spent a few months seeing a psychiatrist, and then moved on to another therapist that I saw for a few more years. Recovery isn't supposed to be easy, but it isn't supposed to be worse than addiction either.
There is life after CHoices :)
JC