BHG Longmont Treatment Center - Longmont, Colorado

Sean

This place should be shut down. I had a counselor member laugh at me for having to live with family after getting off the streets. I'm not kidding. This is the quality of ppl they hire. BHG is run by a corporation as well. Their bottom line is more important than your life.

Ryan N.

This place saved my life. The entire staff is incredible and I quickly built relationships with everyone. And I could go on and on about my counselor Lindsey. She’s incredible, literally the only person in my life I look forward to talking to twice a week. She’s hands down my absolute favorite person ever. She goes out of here way and makes my recovery a priority. I’ve never had a support system like this and it’s the best feeling.

Gemma M.

Disrespectful and unhelpful staff and overpriced services. Extremely high turnover rate for counselors. Rude attitudes toward vulnerable people who are attempting to improve their lives. Unreasonable rules and expectations for patients. Nickel and dime-ing patients for life-saving services. Staff members often have no respect for their patients. Their only concern is money, not helping people who need help. The list of negatives about BHG goes on and on.

The only positive is that after jumping through their hoops, paying an exorbitant amount, and developing thick enough skin to handle being treated poorly, you will get the medication you need to move on with your life. BHG is predatory, other clinics in the area are not. Please seek other options before settling for BHG, because you are a human deserving of basic decency and respect. And though there are individuals at BHG (at least there were when I was a patient) who are caring and highly qualified to treat substance use disorders, the management of this large chain of BHG clinics is atrocious and it does patients a disservice. It does their employees a disservice because they are underpaid, hence the higher than average turnover. It’s about money, not recovery. I was not able to turn my life around completely until I left BHG. I implore you to find a different, local treatment center if you don’t want to have to deal with the horrific stress of all things BHG.

Chuck M.

After many attempts to keep an appointment up at BHG, I was finally able to make it up there this morning (11/17/15). Presented my ID and Medicaid (Dental) Card, since I was never given a regular Medicaid card. The medicaid number is the same, whether it is dental or medical. BHG refused to take the card and therefore refused to see me. I have been searching for over three years to find help with my addiction, and I continue to run into road blocks. BHG has shown no empathy whatsoever towards my situation, nor were there willing to work with me as I try to obtain an actual medicaid card which will reflect the same number that the dental card had.

This place does not care about the individual, nor do they care about the ordeal you might be going through struggling with addiction. I do not recommend going here. I have never in my life experience such a lack of concern with anybody, anywhere then I did this morning trying to enter into a outpatient program.

Also note this: I have to criminal records, a spotless drivers records, I hold a full time job, and am a respectable member of society. By no fault of my own (via the hospital) I became addicted to opiates. The Doctors loved giving them out as candy, but they take no responsibility to get you off of them.

BHG has just added to my growing concern that we are living in a non-caring society, and they are on in the game for the money. Instead of helping a person who desperately needs it, they have sent them out onto the streets to score drugs from a dealer, with the promise of him getting severe life threatening withdrawals.

Shame on you BHG.
There will also be a complaints files with the American Medical Association (AMA), Colorado Department of Health & Environment (CDPHE), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), among every forum that will allow me to post on it to warn others of this organization.

Jesse L.

From my patient intake 2 years ago I went from being a desperate, homeless, unemployed, unwanted and sickly addict to now being independent, hard working, trusted, loving boyfriend and healthy young adult 😀. It's like I'm a totally different person now thanks to these guys ❤️. I'm not exaggerating when I say that this clinic saved my life. I had no hope for myself upon becoming a patient here. I honestly just joined because I was in severe withdrawal due to losing the only source I had for my drug of choice. I only intended to stay until I was able to find another source but thanks to my counselor I decided to try and take MMT seriously and that was one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life. I'm not saying that this was easy and I'm not saying that this will work for everyone. As for me, I've tried almost everything available to achieve sobriety (iNarcotics Anonymous, monitored detox, clonidine, suboxone etc.) but I was never able to stick to anything until I started Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) at BHG. I even had a lot of problems with during my first few months and came really close to being discharged because of my behavior. You can't just enroll and magically become sober over 2 years, you really have to want to be sober and be willing to work with your counselor to identify the root causes of your addiction. Once you do this you will work with your counselor to find healthy ways to deal with whatever issues that lead you into addiction and once you've done that you can start to taper your dose down and eventually get off methadone 😊.
P.S. Don't listen to the negative reviews some people have left here. These are the people that will constantly break the rules, throw temper tantrums when they are confronted about it and verbally abuse the staff if they don't get their way 🙄. The staff here is AMAZING! They are always going above and beyond for the patients that are serious about achieving soberiety and they will always treat you with respect and kindness as long as you do they same 💯. The staff is very understanding and they are always willing to give you so many chances if you screw up because they know that addiction is a difficult thing to deal with and that some laws governing MMT can be very frustrating 😊.

Harrison V.

Wonderful clinic! I've been goin here for quite a long time and was given the tools to totally turn my life around 🙂 When I first started treatment here I really thought I was hopeless, I had tried almost every other addiction treatment out there but I would always relapse after a few months. I was unemployed, broke, desperate, emotionally volatile and totally unstable but now I have made a total 180 🙂 My counselor helped me to see what I needed change and worked with me to tackle these issues and develop healthy coping mechanisms that would keep from relapsing and starting the cycle all over again. It wasn't easy, you really have to want to be sober, your counselor is not a magician and can't make your problems disappear. Methadone maintenance is not for everyone and I would personally recommend that addicts try suboxone before methadone. The people who gave this place a 1 star really just need to grow up and learn to follow the rules that were explained to them in great detail upon becoming a patient here. I've seen these people at the clinic who are so childish and entitled thinking that the staff should cater to them and believe whatever lie they give them so they won't have to face consequences for their actions. If you follow the rules, work hard to stay away from illicit drugs and treat the staff with respect they will go out of their way to make sure you succeed. I can honestly say that without this clinic I would be one of the 72,000 people who die from drug abuse every year.

Terry S.

This clinic is by far the most disgusting excuse for a drug treatment center to ever exist. The employees will constantly make up rules that serve whatever their interests at the time might be and have no respect for their patients. Did I say patients? Well the staff will most likely refer to you in private as “those drug addicts” or maybe just refer to the lot of you as “junkies.”

BHG will gladly take your money for all of these fine services and more. Including some of these gems.
- Be retraumatized on a near daily basis.
- Be lied to about state regulations.
- Learn which regulations this clinic actively breaks.
- Receive less than the bare minimum expected in a medical field.
- Denied service unless the staff finds you to be “hot.
- Yelled at for walking in the door.
- The valuable lesson that this business doesn’t respect the commonly accepted atomic satellite clock time in regards to their business hours.
- Sexually harassed.
- Recieve a new counselor every three months due to high turnover rates. Any counselor who has lasted more than three months tend be jaded in their regards to their patients and have no interest in helping in their recovery; may just be unable to get a job anywhere else.
- Learn what an “Us vs. Them” environment is like.
- Be treated like a mentally handicapped toddler on a statewide crime spree.
- See how people who actively hate their jobs interact with members of the public.

If you really care about your sobriety and recovery, find another clinic or a private doctor. I also recommend sending any reports or complaints to a state authority in private and not through BHG. Complaining through BHG tends to be only internal and leads to nothing and will never recieve a response. This place needs a massive overhaul in the way it operates and is managed that may only be achieved through heavy handed state babysitting or multiple lawsuits.

Pat C.

If you can avoid taking Methadone I strongly suggest doing so. Methadone gets into your bone marrow and takes up to 180 days to withdrawal from. Out of all the people I know I have only met 2 people to sucsefully taper off this medicine. Treatment costs 80 bucks a week and if you can't pay you don't get your meds.
There are benefit to this kind of treatment but if you can find alternative methods I would try those first.
The Councilors are way over booked and though they care thier work load is unbelievable.
If you do decide treatment here is for you prepare for what could be a lifetime coming to the good ol' Methadone Clinic.
Also ask questions like " what is their rate of success for people to completely off Methadone? Bet you won't get a clear answer.
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Being a patient since 2011 I feel I have some room to share my opinion and though this place can allow you to become a functioning adult whom holds a job and can find housing, beyond that you just become a slave to the clinic day in and day out addicted to a drug that won't even getcha buzzed after a month or two.
Oh and I guess saving you from the Hep,H.I.V., and potential Overdose are a few good things the clinic can help avoid too but whatever those aren't very significant. ( insert sarcasm here.)