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In an effort to draw more attention to the discrepencies in James frey's book, Million Little Pieces, I ask that you consider the comments of folks who are famailiar with the non legal aspects of the subject matter. I am taking the time to broaden the discussion because the legal details are not the most serious matter regarding this book. Respecting the anonymity of the authors, I post these comments from another website: Ok, why has no one investigated whether Frey was actually at Hazelden ? I was there, and I don't recognize the place from his description. Being able to call anyone you want with a free phone when detoxing ? Not a chance ? People screaming all night in detox ? Not according to a counselor I spoke with who worked there for twenty years. Says he never heard anyone scream in detox there in twenty years... Going with his counselor to a crack house ?No, no way in hell would anyone at Hazelden have let Frey do that. This guy was never there. His book is a total sham and someone needs to get to the bottom of the Hazelden problem. And this: I am wondering whether Frey was ever at Hazelden. There are a couple of scenes in which Frey said he had to clean his counselor's toilets.. he gets into a fight with another patient who says he isn't doing a good job cleaning. But I talked to someone who has been on staff at Hazelden for 20 years. Turns out patients have never had to clean toilets.. a professional cleaning service does. So those scenes with the macho guys duking it out over the toilets goes out the window... I have talked to people who were in rehab there and they say the prison gang-like cliques Frey describes is a load of b.s. I think it's possible that Frey himself was never at Hazelden. Finally,for your consideration, I submit this: This post is getting closer to the whole truth. Have you read both of Frey's books? What if someoone told you that his decription of Hazeldon doesn't jive with anything that exists in reality? Screaming in the detox center? Really..... Dental surgery without anesthesia? Sure... Counseler supported raids on abandoned houses full of crack depraved degenerates? My, my. Even a physical desciption that frankly doesn't reflect the layout of the rehab he claims to have stayed at? That's pretty scary. What if Leonard doesn't exist? What if Lilly didn't exist? What if, as the Smoking Gun implies, Frey never spent even one night in jail? In light of his scathing attack on the traditonal approach to recovery, an approach that millions of truly addicted folks owe their very survival to, wouldn't it be a service to research the whole book before some poor, newly recovering person buys into this "memoir" and ends up dead? Willpower kept him sober? This is the central and deadly theme of this book,plying on the wallets of the disenfranchised, the hopeless, the addicted. Is it a crime? I would welcome a deeper investigation into this book. It might save someone's life to realize that this biography is full of fictitious storytelling and, possibly, very dangerous advice to a very vulnerable audience with alot to lose.