Employee at Landmark Recovery Talks About Drug Use at Facility

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July 14, 2023 – The employee says he’s been tasked with responsibilities that he is in no way qualified for and weren’t part of the job description, such as full body cavity searches, caring for patients with serious mental health diagnoses, and now searching for drugs.

The employee claims other female employees started sexual relationships with some of the patients and eventually helped them get drugs while inside the facility.

Now, out of concern for his position at the company, we’re not showing this employee on camera. But he did allow us to record his voice so you understand just how many different ways people are getting drugs into Landmark, and how unprepared he feels to deal with this.

“You can search two intakes, and then you have to take care of luggage,” he explained. “Now, the individuals that are still waiting to be searched can just pass off the drugs to the individuals who’ve already been searched. You have repeat offenders that come and know the system, so they stash the drugs outside the facility before they enter it, and sometimes pull fire alarms to go pick those drugs up. You have these individuals that have sexual relationships with the staff and then kind of getting it that way where you have staff members bringing in phones or drugs to these individuals.

“We have discovered filters where you can smuggle and hide drugs, and you also have box springs that are torn up, and they smuggle drugs that way,” he added. “I will say, no one in this facility is trained on how to find drugs. We’ve had individuals who have been back four to five times in a two-week span because they know the system. They stash phones on the outside. They know that we’re understaffed. They know they can get away with these things.”

An administrator at Landmark Recovery tells 16 News Now the company is committed to cooperating with all investigative efforts and self-reported to all regulatory and accrediting organizations.