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The non-profit Betty Ford Center is an Alcohol Addiction and Drug Addiction Treatment hospital located in the luxurious resort community of Rancho Mirage, California. On our expansive 20-acre campus adjacent to the Eisenhower Medical Center we offer help and hope to individuals and their family members affected by alcoholism and/or addiction to other drugs. Alcoholics, addicts, and their loved ones who require alcohol treatment or drug treatment begin the exciting journey to a new life at the Betty Ford Center.

 
Women: Overcoming Barriers to Treatment

Traditionally, treatment for alcoholism and other drug addiction was all about – and for – men. Almost all the research conducted on addictive disease was based on male...

Young Adult Men Receive Specialized Treatment at Betty Ford Center

Its formal name is the Young Adult Track. In Betty Ford Center-speak it's referred to by its acronym, "YAT." Whatever it's called, why does California's licensed...

90-Day Treatment Stay the New “Gold Standard”

It’s one of the oldest truisms in the addiction treatment field: the best friend a patient has in treatment is time. For many years, lip service was paid to that old...

The Disease of Addiction

The disease of addiction has a target organ known as the mid brain. The cause is regulatory dysfunction of a neurotransmitter called dopamine.  The effect is a common...