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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

"30 Days Is Meaningless" — Therapist on Why 18 Rehabs Couldn't Fix Nick Reiner

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott explains why Nick Reiner cycled through 18-plus rehab facilities over 30 years without ever getting the treatment he actually needed.

Dr. Drew said 30-day programs were "almost meaningless" for someone with Nick's history. Alexis Haines said he "belonged in a hospital, not residential treatment." The Reiners paid for the best dual-diagnosis facilities money could buy. None of it worked.

Shavaun breaks down why the treatment model is broken, why patient autonomy laws let Nick walk out before psychiatric care could begin, and what "permanent custodial care" actually means for someone with schizoaffective disorder. The system failed. Here's how.

From the full Shavaun Scott interview on Hidden Killers.

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0:00.0

This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels.

0:08.8

The Reuters reportedly spent a fortune on dual diagnosis treatment facilities designed to address both addiction and mental illness.

0:17.8

Nick went into 18 plus of them, and yet source would say he'd stay only

0:22.4

about 30 days long enough to detox and then before any real psychiatric treatment could take

0:28.4

hold. Shavon Scott is with us as we break down all of this psychotherapist and author. Let's talk about

0:35.5

that a little bit. 30 days for detox, okay,

0:39.3

but actually treating mental illness in any sort of meaningful way, especially something as complex

0:46.6

as schizoaffective disorder, that's not reality, but that's how the system kind of worked.

0:53.5

It got in there for 30 days.

0:54.9

You want to keep going, Nick, that's up to you.

0:57.0

And Nick's the one who kept saying, I'm good, I'm out.

1:00.4

I mean, 18 rehabs, is this something where we look at these rehab facilities and say,

1:06.4

you failed him?

1:07.6

Or did Nick fail by not committing to treatment?

1:10.8

I have never heard of an inpatient treatment. failed him, or did Nick fail by not committing to treatment?

1:19.1

I have never heard of an inpatient treatment program that keeps people for longer than 30 days.

1:26.0

It just is the standard protocol, 30 days. Yes, there's detox, but they're getting daily therapy too, and most of them have dual disorder

1:29.3

programs, so they're getting psych meds, they're getting evaluated. I mean, they're not getting

1:34.3

psych meds if they don't diagnose a psychiatric problem if it's primarily substance abuse, but most treat

1:39.8

both disorders. And then there's a discharge plan for continued treatment in the community.

1:46.4

And often, in fact, I would say most of the time now, you move from inpatient to a residential

1:53.4

treatment program, which continues to deal with the treatment, or you move to what's called

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