The River Source - Holistic 12-Step Drug & Alcohol Rehab

Wow is all I can say about the River Source. My friend was struggling with heroin addiction and I was afraid he was going to die. I looked around at treatment centers online and saw that they had a program designed for Heroin addicts as well as a sober living that he could stay afterwards. Being in recovery myself I understand the aftercare program is just as important as the treatment. The staff was very friendly and informative on what to expect and I must say that he now has over 6 months clean and sober!! He enjoyed being there and it's like there is a new sense of life in him! Thank you so much for all your help!

If you truly want help for yourself or a loved one dealing with substance abuse go to the River Source. The Riversource is a positive and uplifting place for recovery. The staff are professional, courteous, educated, experienced and compassionate.

You can truly get the help that you need from people who really understand and care about your situation.

Treatment is affordable and the Riverside Source also accepts insurance. There is no reason not to get help!

Both locations in Arizona City and Mesa are safe, clean, comfortable and private.

The RiverSource's holistic philosophy treats the mind, body and spirit.

I have witnessed the RiverSource change many lives for the better!

If you or a loved one are seeking help. I highly recommend the River Source!

Phillip W.

Upon filling out the initial application online, I was immediately contacted by the Director of Operations, Phil. He was aggressive in wanting to get the process rolling and called several times. At his request, I completed the 'Verify my Insurance' information and submitted it online. Never heard back from Phil.



I called Phil's confidential cell phone 4 times over the course of two weeks and always left detailed messages. Phil never returned my calls. Finally called the main number and spoke to Chance Love, one of the counselors. When I explained my situation, he said that they were considered out-of-network for my insurance so costs would not be covered. When I asked why none of my calls were returned Chance said that it was most likely because they knew we would not become clients of theirs. Really???!



Bottom line: They will discriminate against you from the start and, from what other reviewers say, they are geared towards making money, NOT helping people. Obviously, integrity is lacking.

I came to River Source because I was so desperate to change anything. I felt completely hopeless and miserable. I had been running from my responsibilities and requirements for Intensive Probation I finally called my P.O and he suggested River Source to me so I just called because the other places I looked into wouldn't accept my insurance. From the moment I got here up until now I have felt truly loved and cared for by all the staff. Sharmyn and Geffen have given me a tremendous amount of insight on myself and my behaviors and by helping me with that I've gotten to to take sometime to myself and be aware of my diseased behaviors that have taken me out in the past. The previous times I attempted treatment I've been kicked out or left AMA and this time I feel like I took it seriously and wanted the help that they were offering. Through this I've found some inner peace and joy within myself. I would definitely recommend The River Source to anyone truly asking for help. Although I've gotten myself into trouble here, I'm honestly grateful for the opportunity and chance to learn about myself and find my connection with God. River Source is truly beautiful because on a daily basis here I found God through all the love and help from the staff, I can feel it around me constantly. I just want to thank everyone her for showing me compassion and patience. God gave me this place for a specific reason and I was able to see that everyday that I was here.

I needed to quit drinking alcohol for good and also just plain clean up my life as a whole. I could stop for a couple weeks but would still have that "dry drunk" behavior. This included very egotistic, self centered and reckless behavior. The River Source does it right. The lectures, groups and meetings were extremely beneficial if you have the willingness to pay attention, participate and to get sober. It is very structured. You have chores, you eat meals during certain times, you must be on time to groups, lecture and meetings. It teaches you discipline, which is crucial in recovery because the real work starts when you leave River Source. They gave me a toolbox full of tools to help me with any situation I may face in the future that would drive most to pick up that drink or drug! I have renewed my faith and pray and meditate everyday, I go to a meeting or meetings everyday. I have a home group with a service commitment.

I got to River Source through an A.A. friend who sent her son here several months ago. She felt it was a good "fit" for me, and she was right. I looked at Banner, Calvary and Sundance. I considered Banner because BCBS would have covered it but selected River Source because of a phone conversation with Phil, the nutritional support and holistic approach. The first few days were a fog, the next week I came to understand my delusions and lack of surrender. By week three I felt a change and got more involved. I wish I could afford another 30 days. R.S. got me very focused on re-examine Step 1- my delusions, my acceptance, my surrender. The helped me improve my "toolkit", my ability to pause, to look for my part and to talk about it, pray about it and help someone else. ER really helped me prep for Step 11. My sponsor feels this has been my best move in my path to Recovery. I am ready to transition back to Banner IOP, my NSFC meetings, support group and service commitments. I am going to add yoga and acupuncture to my Recovery program thanks to R.S. Plus couples counseling. I remain somewhat apprehensive about returning home but I have asked my partner to go to couples therapy, CODA or Alanon and will set some boundaries to protect my Recovery. I am blessed with a wonderful sponsor and powerful AA support network. Thank you Jeff for picking me up; Don and Marcus for always being ready to listen, Sharmyn and Kristy for great insight and advice and Rusty for helping me get honest. I have a great respect for R.S. and leave here with sadness and hope.

An intervention with my family in January which included my daughter and my son is what brought me to The River Source. My husband wrote me a letter but I had wished not to hear it. I agreed to come to The River Source as I had quit drinking almost 10 days before that day so I was ready. My children did a lot of research on alcohol treatment centers that were holistic with programs promoting nutritional, physical, mental and spiritual well-being. The River Source helped me by including me into the woman’s group and getting me to see a counselor, life coach and starting me with the Doctor to work on my chronic pain. Guiding me to get involved and share myself with other by being useful and helpful when I could. My life now is me being honest with myself that I am powerless over alcohol and that my life is a mess and totally unmanageable. Faith in God has allowed me to put myself in God’s hands. I have become a calm, happy, useful person who is sober. I have not had this feeling of peace and joy for so very long. God is teaching me how to communicate on a level I have never imagined I could. Before I walked away and isolated myself. I am honest and loving and see myself with hope and happiness without alcohol and drugs. The staff was awesome everyone had their own individual personality which gave so much direction to the program. I will take away something from everyone and their story and apply it to my own recovery. Without all of you my path and the next steps 4-12 would not even be possible. Thank you.

What brought me to The River Source is that my mom and my best friend love me enough and were worried about me. So they thought that it would be a good idea as did I. We chose The River Source because it was California, Colorado, or here. My mom chose here over Colorado because she thought that it had more to offer. My experience was very great. I learned a lot and it was a great environment. River Source helped me a lot helped me get sober. I want to live a strong and healthy life. It helped me realize my short comings and I where I went wrong. I got to restore my relationship with god. My life is really good now, watching more carefully what I say, who I hurt, how to help others and show love and kindness to others. Accepting things being more patient and tolerant to others. Yes I would highly recommend The River Source. Also I would like to say thank you for teaching me all you have, helping me notice all my defects, what I’m lacking , what areas I need to work on. I am definitely going to miss all my River Source family, staff included. I do plan on staying sober and coming back to visit.

What brought me to The River Source was that I became completely dependent on Heroin and it quickly ruined me. I had gotten arrested and that suffering memory couldn’t even keep me from using. I needed more help so I finally gave up trying to get sober on my own and called The River Source for help. I chose The River Source because my sponsor kept pushing and pushing for me to come here for months. I had looked into other centers and didn’t want to just because I was being stubborn and didn’t want to do what she was telling me. However I am very glad that she did push me so hard to come here.

Being here has been an awesome experience. I’ve learned so much. I feel so much more confident in myself and I haven’t felt this happy in such a long time. I feel more alive. I almost wish I didn’t have to leave. I feel so safe and everyone here has been amazing including the staff. My life now is much calmer, happy and I feel free. I feel like I can function as before. I thought that I was functioning and I wasn’t. I would recommend the river source 100%. It’s a great place and it helped me tremendously.

My son attended The River Source for 45 days for heroin addiction. We were very pleased with his treatment there from beginning to end. The admission people were very helpful and answered all our insurance information and other questions in a timely manner. Our son said the staff really cared about his recovery and did not treat this as just a job. The holistic treatment was amazing, he not only gained back the weight he lost because of his addiction but he looked healthier than he had in years; he also said the supplements really helped him with the withdrawals. We enjoyed the family barbeque and also learned a lot about ourselves and our sons addiction with the seminars that was provided. We received weekly calls from his counselor and life coach to inform us of his progress and a well thought out aftercare plan was made up for him before his departure. All of these things made it much easier to “let go” and let his recovery take place. I am happy to report that our son is doing well living in a sober living environment and is going on 70 day’s clean and sober. The River Source was an answered prayer for our family, we would highly recommend it.

I was an opiate addict that had a moment of clarity, and asked for help. I came to The River Source because of the holistic approach and the feeling I got about the place. I have had a profound experience here physically, mentally, and spiritually. I have reconnected with spirit, and have really opened my heart to things I didn't know i could feel anymore. The staff at The River Source is excellent at what they do, and really helped push me to see me and my life for what it was, and what it could be if I followed suggestions. They were a vital part initiating the psychic shift that old timers talk about. It was very helpful to me to have that support and experience to see on a daily basis. My life is much more manageable now with Spirit guiding me and meditating when things are crazy. I really feel like there is a solution and I have just begun unlocking the beauty of life. I would definitely recommend The River Source. The naturopathic remedies, the yoga, and the approach they take to recovery are all vital in helping have that psychic shift. It is an amazing place to be. I would like to say thank you to the staff and my family that I found inside these walls. Without the support and guidance I got here I would have never seen this program through. Namaste.

I came to The River Source as part of a intervention from my father. I had spent the last 14 months laying on a couch getting drunk and was lucky to be alive. I had caused much pain to all those who truly loved me. I don't believe I chose The River Source. It chose me. From the moment I arrived, I knew i was in for something special. I was very physically sick. Through the use of holistic medicine, I.V. bags, amino acids and valium, I was quickly restored to health. Then came the task of building my mental, emotional, and spiritual health. This is a work in progress. I have been in treatment four prior times. Never was so much emphasis lace on the first step of Alcoholics Anonymous. Powerlessness and unmanageability have been much of the focus of my entire stay at The River Source. For not only am I powerless over alcohol, I am also powerless over everything happening around me. When I try to take power and control over these things, my life immediately becomes the second and third step of A.A. I probably would have left way too early. By learning to have faith and trust in God, I was able to ask for help and avoid making the ultimate decision to leave. Which would have led to drinking again. My life now has a glimmer of hope. I still have moments of self will run riot, but through the tough suggestions of my life coach, counselor and peers, God provides me with a slightly enhanced sense of honesty, open mindedness and willingness, through persistence of these new found qualities and continued work on steps four through twelve of A.A., long term permanent sobriety is no longer just a dream. It can become a reality one day at a time. God will provide if I do his work well. If anyone is suffering from alcoholism or drug addiction as I am, I will definitely suggest that they look into The River Source. The approach offered by this facility is unparalleled. I say this not from a feeling of invincibility, but from a level of experience. I am and always will be grateful for the gifts The River Source has given me. To quote the A.A. Big Book "And though perhaps he came to scoff, he may remain to pray.

I was headed to Chandler Valley Hope. Just a few short days before my flight I googled Chandler Valley Hope and The River Source came up. I saw “A Holistic Approach…” immediately called, reached someone and flew out. I chose The River Source because of the holistic approach –the Counseling, Massage, Yoga, Life Coach: one of the primary reasons was the Naturopathic clinic approach. I came in here a fairly broken woman, physically, mentally, and emotionally, without my spiritual life in play. My time here allowed me to rediscover ME in all of those areas. I am genuinely leaving here with a healthier, grounded grateful Mary. I gained so much form our in house sessions with all of the facilitators and staff. My conversations with staff all gave me so much as well. What a fine group of caring human beings. I am coming back to being me again and although I am not all the way there, I know what it is to accept, embrace and love myself again. I know I have much to offer and look forward to re engaging fully in life. It’s still a path I treasure.I would highly recommend The River Source. Thank you for helping me save my life. I am grateful for my days here and know I am leaving here with hope and a solid foundation to move forward in health. Thank you so much in kindness.

My 13th relapse brought me The River Source. I chose this facility because I knew that it would work for me this time, if I actually applied myself and used the tools that were given to me unlike 4 months ago when I arrived here for the first time. At The River Source my experience was unlike any other facility I have ever been to. I was greeted with open arms. Everyone including the staff and the clients are all awesome. With what they offered to me when I got there, I have now got to pass it on to the new clients because I was once there and I know exactly what they are going through. I have and will continue to recommend The River Source to anyone because it has given me my life back. My father has gotten his son back, and my brother and my sister their brother back, someone that they can rely on and look up to.

I am a return client of The River Source Casa Grande. I decided to come back here again because I was comfortable here before. The staff here is great. They are tough when they need to be but when you need someone to just listen they are also there. If you need help with addiction, come have an open mind, be prepared to learn about something called life.

I came to The River Source when I found myself using heroin daily and wanting to stop but just not knowing how. No matter what I tried. I always picked up again, even when the conviction not to use again was made only a few minutes before. My mom gave me a brochure for the River Source she chose it because of the holistic aspect and the importance put on spiritual health. My stay at The River Source was the hardest and most life changing and hopeful experience I have ever had. The River Source has helped me realize my disease and the seriousness of my condition. They have helped me realize the spirituality that I had repressed and been ashamed of for so long. I have learned how to deal with cravings and mental obsessions that come along with addiction. I have also learned how to create a strong community of sobriety so that I can avoid isolation and relapse. Now I have hope for the future my life is going in a positive direction, now that I am clean and sober all of my goals are attainable. I would absolutely recommend River Source to anyone who has substance abuse problems and wants to have a better life.

I was brought into The River Source by court order originally, and was said to be here 30 days but ended up doing ninety which I'm grateful I did. River Source was chosen by my substance abuse counselor to attend but I had a couple friends who came through here and I did remember the name of this place but didn't think I'd step into it. My experience here has been pretty amazing, very unexplainable I have learned so much from other clients, the staff, people outside The River Source, the groups, and the meetings. River Source has definitely showed me that there is another way to live instead of the way I was choosing to live my life and with that I gained insight with the 12 steps, my sponsor, this fellowship, in life in general. My life is starting to come into place now just with having humility, acceptance, hope, my Higher Power to help guide me through things one day at a time and knowing I ain't alone. I would definitely recommend The River Source to other suffering people who were like me at one point. I would just like to say thanks to those who really helped me out the most, my stay here was very comfortable once I stopped being uncomfortable, all the staff was great to me especially Chris Hanna, Scott Goldstein, Zach Lynch, Evan, Don Cohlman, and Sydney King. I am forever grateful and glad I was able to have this experience here.

Our family was referred to The River Source by the attorney we hired after our son was in a DUI related incident facing jail time. Our attorney was adamant that this was a healing place of recovery. Several previous clients had done very well there. After previous stints in rehab with no sobriety, we were grateful to see the approach at The River Source was making a difference for our son. Their focus on healing the body with nutrition, yoga, vitamin IV therapy, daily exercise at the gym is a huge part of their program. The spiritual side of serious 12 step work, life coach, counseling, group therapy and attending AA. Our son was not alone. He developed a sense of himself and giving to others. He also learned to rely on his faith and believe in something larger than his actions surrounding substances. He remained at The River Source 120 days. The first 2 months he got well, the last two months he got moving and tapped into his potential for life. The last 2 months of his 120 day stay is when the miracle began to happen so please give this wonderful program time. 30 days is not enough after years of using. Many of the folks at The River Source are recovering addicts, so they have a special understanding. Our son was offered love, compassion and understanding. I have already recommended The River Source to others and will continue to do so.

I was drinking alcohol in isolation September through November thought I had an alcohol withdrawal until I talked to my Psych and he explained what happened when I quit my anti-depressant cold turkey. I googled it, they accepted my insurance. Mark was good to talk to on the phone. It was very hard at first but it was very helpful in finding out things about myself and that my spiritual life was almost non-existent. Discovered I had not began the grieving process of my husbands death. Counseling/listening finding the puzzle piece I was missing. I feel rested and ready to begin to go through the steps of grief. I am much more spiritually connected. Realize the danger of drinking and will never take the chance on having a drink again. Have not had one craving but I have watched people I have got very close to dying from the disease. I feel incompetent to give advice about addiction. I have had a balanced life. Just really got out of control moving, new job, husband sick-dying, special needs son, single parenting kids- just simply overloaded. Most of all staff was very supportive. I definitely have better coping skills and realize what happened and what was lacking in my life. Yes, I would recommend addicts to River Source.

What brought me to The River Source was a combo of the 12 step program and its holistic practices as well as the fact the competitive success rate. That is why I chose The River Source. My experience at The River Source was pleasant spiritual and therapeutic. They provided the tools, resources and education for recovery. My life now is spiritual with clarity. I would recommend The River Source.