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Betty Ford Center Teams with Southworth Associates to Provide Monitoring Program
July 30th, 2010 / / Betty Ford Center
An organized monitoring program is now offered to all patients who complete at least 90 days of treatment at the Betty Ford Center. The new service is contracted through Southworth Associates, an organization with over 15 years of experience in this field. It is designed as an extension of residential treatment and is intended to help patients follow through with their aftercare recommendations. Accountability is a valuable component of the monitoring program and a critical part of recovery from alcoholism...

$400,000 Grant Received for Science-Based Evaluation
July 29th, 2010 / / John Boop
On May 21st, the Foundation was notified that the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation had awarded Betty Ford Institute a grant of $400,000 to evaluate the effectiveness of the Betty Ford Children’s Program. Working with the independent research organization, Treatment Research Institute (TRI) located in Pennsylvania, the goal of the project is to understand whether, to what extent and how, the Betty Ford Children’s Program disrupts the intergenerational cycle of addiction. This two-year evaluation research project strives to achieve three specific objectives: Document the degree to...

Women: Overcoming Barriers to Treatment
June 24th, 2010 / Programs / Betty Ford Center
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 patients. The famous Jellinek Chart describing the progression of alcoholism was based solely on its effects on men. And then along came Betty Ford -- and the entire thinking about this disease underwent a sea-change. Betty Ford founded her famous Center not only as a state-of-the-art hospital devoted exclusively to the treatment of addictive disease, but also as an oasis, a refuge for women alcoholics and addicts...

Young Adult Men Receive Specialized Treatment at Betty Ford Center
June 21st, 2010 / Programs / 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 addiction hospital offer specialized treatment for young men, ages 18 to 25? According to Lead Counselor Patrick Smith, there are three reasons. "First," he says, "these young men inevitably are not your garden-variety alcoholic or addict, if there is such a thing. They often come to us cross-addicted, to a potent mix of drugs. Even after they've been here two or three weeks, some patients are still not substance-free –...

90-Day Treatment Stay the New “Gold Standard”
June 18th, 2010 / Programs / Betty Ford Center
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 rule. But now longer-term treatment is becoming the norm. In the words of Dr. Johanna O’Flaherty, Vice President of Treatment Services at the Betty Ford Center, “Ninety days of treatment is the new 30 days of treatment.” According to Dr. O’Flaherty, “While the traditional 30-day treatment model is an appropriate level of care for many patients, we are finding that a longer length of stay allows the patient to...

BFC Childrens Program Expands in Colorado
June 18th, 2010 / Programs / Betty Ford Center
The Betty Ford Center’s acclaimed Children’s Program is now being offered up to 14 times a year in Colorado. The content of the Colorado program is virtually identical to what is offered at the main Betty Ford Center campus in Rancho Mirage, California and the long-running Children’s Program in Dallas/Ft. Worth, but operationally the Colorado program is quite different. There is no campus, no office, no full-time Denver-based staff (although a part-time marketing/outreach person has just been hired). Instead, staff travel from Rancho Mirage to Denver to conduct the four-day-long...

Stress Management Activities Help Patients at Betty Ford Center
June 18th, 2010 / Programs / Betty Ford Center
Yoga. Massage. Acupuncture. Biofeedback. Meditation. Physical exercise. They may seem unusual treatment tools for persons addicted to alcohol and/or other drugs – but they are tools used with increasing frequency and effectiveness at the nation’s leading addiction treatment hospital, the Betty Ford Center, located in Rancho Mirage, California. Activities such as yoga, massage, acupuncture, biofeedback, meditation and physical exercise are components of the basic treatment program at the Center and, according to Dr. Scott Davis, Addiction Medicine Physician at BFC, they are effective...

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