Serenity Lane Intensive Outpatient Services, Eugene

"If it wasn't for surrendering lane. Yes? Would not? Currently. Be sober. I'm currently sober for over a 120 days. I have a sponsor and I'm working the steps my counselor mental health counselor during my time at Serenity lane run valuable. This is the longest I've been sober since I was 16 years old. I met a lot of true friends that I currently have. And have stayed with during my tenure their Serenity lane. I cannot wait till I have a year and so that I can go tell my story about my starting drinking at the age of 5. I'm the trauma I went through my? Whole. Life until now where I've bought a new home have great time. Working with nonprofits I love this place and I think anyone that has an addiction should be able to go there and experience the experience I experienced."

"I entered Serenity Lane after all of my attempts to fix myself on my own were exhausted. I had been a pharmacist for 8 years and could not stop using. While in treatment, my pharmacy license was revoked, my wife filed for divorce, I could not see my three children, I gained a felony record, and I had lost the trust of everyone that I loved. I learned a way to live life without drugs and met others that were like me. Others that understood how i thought. Thanks to Serenity Lane and my continued attendance to AA meetings, I found happiness from within. I may have less objects to boost my ego, but I can live an honest life free of the obsession to use drugs. Today I can say that I am a good father to my boys.Thank you Serenity Lane for teaching me how to live with myself and be of service to others."

"The meeting counselor was amazing, The issues are trying to get admissions to call you back and get started in the program. Then they sneakily asked me if I had any licenses and I told themI did, I didn’t know that they were going to want the number and turn it in ,they should tell people that before they ask them I think that’s a illegal actually. It really shouldn’t be that hard to get into a drug program when you want to get sober."

"I genuinely respect the staff I encounter while in their program. Very educated helpful personel. My counselor/therapist (Samantha Flora) is amazing. she brings strangers together and builds a comfortable setting for us to open up. Thank you Serenity Lane."

"I’ve had experience with many different IOP programs and have been lucky to have some of the most amazing counselors. Unfortunately I cannot say that about this place. I don’t know if maybe I triggered something in my counselor that made them either not want to give me the credit I deserved, as I had stuck with them for 6 months, stayed clean that entire time and progressed tremendously, or if his ego about needing to be the authoritative “I’ve been through college so I know all there is to know”, I really don’t know all I can do is guess based on the feeling I got from my interactions with him. It got so bad that the very last group I attended, my peers were messaging me seeing if I was okay because he was basically attacking me, questioning me and treating me like I wasn’t being honest or I was doing something wrong. Calling me out in front of everyone for things that other clients did every day. I left treatment that day. I don’t care what anyone says, that is not how an Addiction Counselor should be treating any of their clients. Especially us being addicts, that approach never works. I tried to plead my case and bring awareness to how I felt, wasn’t taken serious wasn’t even listened to. I caught multiple mistakes on my progress reports regarding my attendance where he said I no called no showed multiple times in a row when I did not and I had proof of that and showed them. Said they would correct it on my next report, and did not do that. I am not a disrespectful person by any means, I was raised to respect everyone and if they don’t respect you, kill em with kindness and go about your business! I’m sure he is a great guy that is not what I’m saying, I’m saying that if I wasn’t as strong as I am in my recovery that I 100% would have taken that mistreatment and been embarrassed (which I completely was almost every single group by him and his comments) I would have felt ashamed and like my efforts did not make a difference and then I would have went right back out and relapsed over it. Thank the lord I did not, but that’s the reality of these places. That’s the risk of not doing your job! Someone could go out and use over the mistreatment they received and end up dead! Serenity Lane is full of amazing staff, but some really need to re-evaluate their approach, how they treat addicts and why the hell they chose that job in the first place. It was pathetic really."