Has Nick Reiner gone downhill because of his therapy?

Authorities say both victims died of “multiple sharp force injuries.” Nick has not entered a plea and the case is still ongoing. As investigators piece together the events that led to the deaths, attention has shifted to his long history of addiction, mental illness and treatment, including a controversial wilderness program in Utah that he participated in as a teenager.

Friends and former patients of the program say it’s impossible to ignore Nick’s own story of how his time there intersected with his later heroin use. Speaking about the Dope podcast in 2016, Nick described being sent to a wilderness camp in Utah called Second Nature at age 16 after refusing to attend high school and experimenting with drugs.

“I went to a wilderness program in Utah. It was called Second Nature, and I met a guy there from LA and at the time he was like a hardcore Venice guy,” he said. Nick went on to explain how that encounter followed him years later.

“I met him when I was 16 and then, (when) I was 18, I was living sober, and I call him up because I knew he was really into heroin at the time,” he admitted.