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America’s most utilized tool in which we fight an opioid epidemic, as well as a more significant mental health crisis, is in peril. Franklin, TN-based Acadia Healthcare Company Inc. (Nasdaq: ACHC) faces mounting allegations of patients going missing as well as sexual assault in over a dozen of the domiciles in which the conglomerate operates. And, these only scratch the surface…
The Chicago Tribune recently described sexual impropriety allegations by six women who were patients at a Chicagoland subsidiary of Acadia. The women said a mental health practitioner named Michael Jacksa assaulted them, adding, “Former patients told police that Jacksa subjected them to rape, forced oral sex, digital penetration, and fondling beneath their clothes. He faces 62 felony charges.” Mr. Jacksa is currently in a county jail in Illinois. In Oregon (a state responsible for 70 foster children in Acadia’s care), State Senator Sara Gelser (D-OR) says that Acadia has
“turned our most vulnerable children and adults into nothing more than cash cows who are hidden away behind locked doors in communities far away from the people who care for…
