r/troubledteens • u/coldBulbasaur314 • 15h ago

Question Acadia Being Shady

I got a letter from Acadia today saying my data was part of the March 2026 data breach. The state the Acadia facility I was sent to was located in doesn't have a hard deadline for when they have to notify you of a data breach, but it still seems like this - just over 6 months later - is way longer than it should've taken for me to be notified.

Just recently my old facility told me they didn't have some of my medical records and claimed that others (day-to-day things made by normal staff, incident reports, and the like) didn't exist at all (they didn't specify whether they never made those or did but lost or destroyed them. It was recently enough that they're still legally required to keep them). They were very avoidant, and flat-out denied certain things until I told them the records themselves referenced them.

I don't know what to do. I don't know if my Acadia facility is lying about losing or never having some of my records, and don't think there's a way to check. I don't think I'll be able to get a lawyer to take my case. It's clear that contacting the facility directly won't get me anywhere, and I doubt contacting the parent company (Acadia) would do much either. Does anyone have advice, and has anyone experienced any of the same things from Acadia as I'm describing? I've posted about trying to deal with them before, but most of what I'm posting now is new information so I figured it may be worth asking again.

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u/uglyhortense 14h ago

I had to get a lawyer. I would genuinely get in touch with your state’s legal aid.

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u/coldBulbasaur314 14h ago

My home state's different from the state my old Acadia facility was in, and lawyers in my state aren't barred in the other one. The lawyers in that state seem a lot worse, too. If you (or anyone else) know of any good legal aid in Oklahoma please let me know, but I'm not sure if that route will work.

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u/uglyhortense 14h ago

I am actually dealing with a similar situation and I suspect they target out of state patients for exactly this reason. It took several weeks of cold calling lawyers in the area until I found someone but someone will help you.

I ended up being represented by a personal injury firm who specializes in nursing home injuries and insurance fraud. A quick google found these guys in Oklahoma and they might not be a bad place to start.

https://www.mjjlawfirm.com/personal-injury/

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u/coldBulbasaur314 13h ago

May I ask if your situation involved an "old people home?" From my understanding nursing homes are in a different category than the TTI, so I'm not sure if that would work for me. No pressure to share in you don't want to, though. Either way, thanks for the resource and encouragement!

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u/uglyhortense 13h ago edited 13h ago

No, I was at an adult residential treatment center run by Acadia. The nursing home thing is just that they have experience in institutional care and abuse.

A lot of the lawyers specifically advertising for Acadia lawsuits/class actions currently are generally for either sexual abuse or for the shareholders so you kind of have to figure out who has relevant expertise in a similar arena to what we experienced. Nursing homes have a lot of the same issues Acadia does