Results

 

We Save Lives By Changing Behavior

 
 
 

The Other Side Academy is not just about getting people off drugs. It is about helping people create purposefully, connected, and happy lives. Ultimately, the only real measure of our work is how many of our students develop the character required to create that kind of life. That is our ultimate goal.

Our minimal goal is that in the years after graduation, our students are drug-free, crime-free, and gainfully employed.

 
 
 
 

OUR RESULTS AS OF March 2022

The following data was collected as of March 2022, from internal records as well as from surveys conducted by The Other Side Academy. It covers the period from 2015 to 2022.

  • 45% Retention Rate

    This is the total percentage of people who make a commitment to stay for 2.5 years and who are still present at the end of the 2.5 years.

  • 37% Elect to Stay an Optional Third Year

    This is the number of people who complete their required two-and-a-half-year commitment and without any court requirements, choose to stay a third year within the program.

  • 100% of all graduates are employed

    This is the percentage of people who had a job when they graduated from The Other Side Academy.

  • 14% Recidivism Rate of Graduates

    This is the percentage of people who have completed the minimum 2.5-year program and have been rearrested after graduation.

  • 71% of all graduates are DCE

    DCE means Drug-Free, Crime-Free, and Employed for all graduates of The Other Side Academy.

  • 84% of all graduates are employed

  • 83% of all graduates are crime-free

  • 74% of all graduates are drug-free

  • 82% DCE Rate of Graduates who Stayed 3+ Years

    This is the Drug-Free, Crime-Free, and Employed rate for those students who elected to voluntarily stay a third year in the program.

 
 

  • SHAME ON THE REHAB INDUSTRY

    No Transparency = No Accountability = No Integrity

    We believe firmly that while not everything that matters can be measured if things truly matter to you, you must attempt to measure your effectiveness. Measurement is the discipline of both integrity and accountability. The drug rehab industry today suffers from a scandalous lack of both integrity and accountability.

    Treatment providers in this $35 billion industry toss out “success” statistics that are either complete fabrications or are supported by scant evidence. Many measure outcomes the way you would measure customer satisfaction at a restaurant. They make wild claims based on satisfaction surveys they mail to clients whose responses are suspect.

    When a small percentage of clients return the survey, they extrapolate from the 10% to claim that 80% of their clients “report” being sober. Or that 90% of their clients “strongly agree” that they are doing much better. Whatever that means. Imagine a surgeon who loses 70% of his patients on the operating table, then claims wild success because 80% of the survivors say they liked him.

    Research shows that true success rates (long-term sobriety, stable employment, and consistent pro-social behavior) among long-time criminal addicts are in the 5-10% range. And that’s for those who complete treatment. If you factor in those who fail to complete their 30, 60, or 90-day programs, the real numbers are even lower.

    The Other Side Academy calls for the entire treatment world to begin practicing the same integrity we teach our students. Chronic neglect to uncover the truth is no different than lying. It’s even worse when you benefit financially from your failure to seek and reveal the truth. We urge everyone to find responsible ways to demand transparency, accountability, and integrity from the $35 billion industry that claims to have the answers to the suffering of over twenty million Americans. Lives depend on it. It’s time for treatment providers to practice what they preach.