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Blue Mountain Escape was publicly listed by DDAP at four separate properties where local records were missing, nonexistent, contradictory, or showed unresolved occupancy issues.

The locations were:

• 24 W. Factory Street, Mechanicsburg
• 17 S. High Street, Mechanicsburg
• 417 N. Hanover Street, Carlisle
• 213 Harris Street, Harrisburg

Through Right-to-Know requests, the standard local documentation that should exist when a recovery house operator is using a property was requested: zoning approvals, use determinations, permits, occupancy or rental records, DDAP communications, enforcement records, and internal municipal correspondence.

The results were not reassuring.

Mechanicsburg records showed no BME permit or approval trail at Factory Street. At High Street, the Borough confirmed no BME zoning permit, no local approval record, no DDAP contact, and an expired rental certificate of occupancy.

Carlisle produced no BME zoning, permit, occupancy, or approval records for Hanover Street.

Harrisburg produced no BME, Stacy Nazay, DDAP, zoning, occupancy, enforcement, or internal City records tying Blue Mountain Escape to 213 Harris Street.

DDAP did not provide proof that it verified local compliance at any of these locations. Instead, DDAP sent nearly identical letters saying it referred each complaint to local zoning authorities, then finalized and closed the zoning complaints because zoning issues are outside DDAP’s scope.

At the same time, DDAP continues to allow active referrals to these locations. Once DDAP issues the license, people can be placed there even when the local government has no documented record of the use, no DDAP coordination, or unresolved occupancy issues.

That is not a functioning verification system.

A state agency can list or license a recovery house location, but when the local government has no documented record of the use, no DDAP coordination, or unresolved occupancy issues, DDAP simply sends the concern elsewhere and closes the file.

The result is an honor system where residents and municipalities are left to discover the gaps after the operator is already publicly recognized by the state.

The four DDAP closure letters are attached.

The PA Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP) is running a state-sanctioned licensing racket under Chapter 717. It operates exactly like a predatory slumlord scheme.

It is a trap built on willful ignorance, designed to fuel a "recovery-for-profit" machine while shifting all liability onto operators.

The Loophole: DDAP requires zero proof of local zoning to issue a license. They completely bypass local town laws.

The Reality: It feeds the prison-to-profit pipeline under the false guise of care.

The "License": It is just a rubber-stamped building permit. It has zero to do with actual safety or rehabilitation.

DDAP acts like an absentee landlord. They collect the checks, blindside local towns with zero zoning oversight, and treat operators as expendable prey.

This practice has to stop.

The Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP) runs an official, state-sanctioned licensing racket under Chapter 717.

It is a predatory trap built on willful ignorance, designed to fuel a recovery for profit machine while completely shifting liability onto operators.

Make no mistake: this system is built directly for the prison and court systems under the false guise of actual recovery. DDAP purposefully incentivizes predatory operators to profit off of vulnerable people, while treating the license itself as nothing more than a PA state-sponsored building permit. It has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of service, care, or recovery in general. DDAP doesn't regulate for safety, rehabilitation, or care.

They run a predatory, rubber-stamp mill that feeds the prison-to-profit pipeline, protects the state's pockets, blindsides local towns, and treats recovery operators as expendable prey.

This shit has to stop. We need a full legislative audit of DDAP Chapter 717 immediately.