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    <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 06:44:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Confessions of a Malibu Treatment Center Provider</title>
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&lt;span style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;Hello. My name is Scott and I am a recovering Malibu treatment center provider.&lt;/span&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;I worked in a luxury Malibu treatment center for several years while obtaining my doctoral degree. What I witnessed at that Malibu treatment center at that time is still impacting me today. After reading &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/fashion/an-intervention-for-malibu.html?pagewanted=all&amp;amp;_r=0"&gt;An Intervention for Malibu&lt;/a&gt; in the New York Times on the problems with Malibu treatment centers, a lot of the old memories came rushing to the surface.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;span style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;Hello. My name is Scott and I am a recovering Malibu treatment center provider.&lt;/span&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;I worked in a luxury Malibu treatment center for several years while obtaining my doctoral degree. What I witnessed at that Malibu treatment center at that time is still impacting me today. After reading &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/fashion/an-intervention-for-malibu.html?pagewanted=all&amp;amp;_r=0"&gt;An Intervention for Malibu&lt;/a&gt; in the New York Times on the problems with Malibu treatment centers, a lot of the old memories came rushing to the surface.&lt;/p&gt;  
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      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2022 23:03:34 GMT</pubDate>
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