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Betty Ford Center

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A nonprofit inpatient facility in Rancho Mirage, California, founded in 1982 by recovering alcoholic and former US First Lady Betty Ford, dedicated to various levels of management of chemical dependency, including inpatient care
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He adds, "This had absolutely nothing to do with the impending merger of the Betty Ford Center and Hazelden.
Schwarzlose related a recent experience in which a Betty Ford Center patient from Arizona was sent home for sober living.
A key feature of the Betty Ford Center is gender-specific treatment, with a particular expertise in treating women with substance abuse.
II: CEO of Intervention Service, preferred interventionist for Betty Ford Center.
It's enough to make this Romenesko addict consider a visit to the Betty Ford Center.
Betty Ford, the wife of President Gerald Ford, established the Betty Ford Center.
Howell spent several days in the Betty Ford Center, a substance abuse treatment facility at Rancho Mirage, Calif., and was released on Oct.
Consisting of weekly group meetings, emotional testimonials and a heavy dose of spirituality, AA is probably the best known of all substance-abuse treatment approaches and the cornerstone of programs from California's famous Betty Ford Center to small weekly meetings at Sarasota's First Presbyterian Church.
There is the Betty Ford Center for some and no treatment for others.
Scaife, who was treated for alcoholism during a visit to the Betty Ford Center in the mid-1980s, is now "on a more even keel," maintains Gutnick.
But the feelings that gave rise to Prohibition remained just beneath the surface of the American psyche, and in the 1970s a new temperance movement emerged, manifested in the rapid growth of the recovery movement and Alcoholics Anonymous, of private alcoholism treatment a la the Betty Ford Center, and of government efforts to limit alcohol consumption.
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