Apt Foundation Inc

The leadership of APT has no conscience. They work under the radar with incompetent and soft local politician to place methadone clinics in inappropriate locations that negatively impact local residents and businesses and breed crime. Their primary modus operandi is to buy land in zones that allow “medical facilities” “as-of-right” so as to avoid public hearings. In other words, their aim is to grease the skids so that their clinics are operational before the public knows what’s happening. In Guilford, not even abutting property owners were notified. These facilities belong in industrial zones, not resident or commercial zones where addicts can wander the streets after being forced to leave the grounds of the clinic. In West Haven, CT, FOIA requests to the police department produced 80 pages of police reports on incidents of crime over five years at or near the facility.

I had a counselor who I kept telling that I was getting tired after I took my dose three or four hours later and I kept asking her to lower my dose and she would lower it here or there but then she would say let’s just hang in there a little bit and see how you do even though I was still pushing her to lower it more. Well eventually I got in another car accident because I drifted out three or four hours after taking my dose in this time my kid was in the car with me so DCF ended up taking my child away from me after I had just gotten back from the last accident that was caused by this methadone and does methadone dose that was too high for me. These counselors they care about getting more money from your insurances and keeping the clinics open and keeping junkies coming in and junkies going out and get in there keep getting their fix they don’t care about getting anyone clean they want you to be dirty so you have to keep coming back there and they have legit refuse to lower my dose multiple times be careful ever going to a place like this because this place got my child taken away from me and they think it’s a joke.

Apt foundation definately does not care about their patients. Their program sounds great on their website with all the services they offer. Primary care psychiatric help vocational training It's ALL bullshit!! You wait hours to see the primary care doctor just to be told they lost your blood work, they don't address your medical conditions, you wait a couple more hours to see the pyschiatrist because you are in need of counseling, but he doesn't understand why you're there because his only function seems to be doleing out prescription after prescription to the dozens of patients that breezed in and out before you. Hence, he never bothers to talk to you about anything. You wait to see about vocational training yet when you finally get in, you're told you are being put on a very long waiting list because there's only one person in charge of offering vocational services. The APT foundation is a complete JOKE!!! People who are truly in need and want the help ARE NOT getting it. The only thing they are consistent with is keeping their patients on methadone with no real plan to ween them off!! And my GOD people should n able to post the names of the incompetent doctors working there! No wonder addicts can't get/stay clean!! This place should be investigated.

I've been a client at the APT foundation on Ella T. Grasso in New Haven, CT for over 4 years. They may have " strengthened their funds balance", but their quality of service has dramatically decreased. Councilors repeatedly do not answer phone calls and worse yet some don't even return your messages. When you tell them how bad it is, they simply point to all the people filling the room and it's clear the manpower to handle the business simply isn't there. There used to be two clinics in one at this location (6 dispensing windows), they consolidated them both together and now the place has a line to the back door every single day especially during the morning hours when you're trying to get to work (not to mention they closed a second location in New Haven as well). The APT Foundation does not appear to care about it's client's recovery at all- it's clear because it's patients demonstrate the ability the continually fail urine analysis and the only punishment is that you won't get any take home bottles, but you'll be considered in recovery as long as you buy your methadone everyday and go to an APT group once a month. I have a severe stomach condition and am almost completely weened off methadone because it exacerbates the latter, funny thing is that the APT doctor and councilors keep telling me its not the methadone making it act up and that I shouldn't get off methadone (EVER if they had it their way- I think 4+ years is long enough, no?) yet 2 doctors from my PCP's office and my G.I. say the complete opposite (obviously APT's doctors have biased opinions and should be considered a conflict-of-interest, to anyone considering seeing a clinic doctor OR psych.). I've also had horrible experiences with the employees who work there (bad attitudes, lazy employees, misinformation, lying etc.) although, I won't get into any particulars and ruin anonymity. I will say SOME of their employees have been highly helpful- but have had to do so in a way that was out of the scope of being an APT employee, sadly (meaning they were giving me info. or guidance as a friend not an employee of APT) but MOST are uneducated and skewed in their view of what recovery is. APT appears to have it's own definition of recovery- or is just really uneducated. They continually make changes within their program and then a month or two later they change it back or change it to something else. This place has NO idea what it's doing! It's an addiction treatment center. Whether you go to group shouldn't matter, passing urine analysis and not relapsing is what should matter. It makes me wonder- what underlying motivation/goal are they holding above ACTUAL recovery? Granted I've been successfully clean on the methadone program for the past 4 years- but with NO real help from the APT foundation except simply that I get my methadone from them.