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		<title>Betty Ford Center Annual Women&#8217;s Symposium Set for March</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“It&#8217;s a Family Affair – Moving to Family Wellness&#8221; is the theme of the Women&#8217;s Symposium being held Thursday, March 22 at the University of California at Los Angeles.
The one-day event features leaders in the fields of addiction, behavioral health and women&#8217;s issues.  Participants will be able to earn up to 5.5 CEHs (Continuing Education [...]


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		<title>Dr. Peter&#8217;s Pain Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chronic pain is defined as any pain that endures for more than three months. Those of you who suffer from it know all too well that it can be all-consuming and seemingly life-ending.
I have created this blog so that people who suffer from chronic pain may have a forum to communicate. Often they feel isolated, [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/treatment/a-conversation-with-dr-peter-przekop-about-the-betty-ford-centers-unique-pain-management-track.php' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: A Conversation with Dr. Peter Przekop about the Betty Ford Center&#8217;s Unique Pain Management Track'>A Conversation with Dr. Peter Przekop about the Betty Ford Center&#8217;s Unique Pain Management Track</a></li>
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		<title>2012 Alcohol Awareness Hour Begins this Month</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Alcohol and Other Drugs Awareness Hour is celebrating its 36th year with a series of lectures being held from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m.  at the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences on the Eisenhower Medical Center campus.   There is no charge for the lecture series, which begins January 14, 2012.
Following is the schedule of 2012 lectures: 



January 14, 2012
Topic:     [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center Acknowledges Accreditation Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Betty Ford Center recently received Accredited status for all services surveyed under the ‘Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Behavioral Health Care.’  This is a process issued by The Joint Commission, an independent, not-for-profit organization that accredits and certifies more than 19,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States.
 The process is designed to help organizations [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center Children’s Programs Director Presentation Scheduled</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jerry Moe, MA, National Director of the Betty Ford Center Children’s Programs, is speaking on the topic “Through a Child’s Eyes:  Understanding Addiction and Recovery” January 17 in Torrance, CA as part of the Frontiers in Addiction Treatment Series presented by the Thelma McMillen Center and Betty Ford Center.
The event is scheduled from 9 am [...]


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		<title>Chronic Pain Blog to Debut in January</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/chronic-pain-blog-to-debut-in-january.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/chronic-pain-blog-to-debut-in-january.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Przekop, D.O., Ph.D., director of the Betty Ford Center Pain Management Track (PMT), will soon begin posting a weekly blog on the BFC website.  The focus of the blog will be the chronic pain patient, and Dr. Przekop plans to engage PMT alumni as well as others who live with chronic pain.
“New findings about [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center Pain Management Track Volunteer Shares Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Passion and physiology team up to make the Betty Ford Center’s Pain Management Track (PMT) a powerful experience for chemically dependent patients who also are diagnosed with chronic pain.
Jeff Alleva, a long-time friend of the PMT Director, Dr. Peter Przekop, volunteers to help with the patients, co-facilitating groups and working on some academic aspects.
“I met [...]


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		<title>Breaking Myths about Alcoholism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many misconceptions about alcoholism. It was classified as an illness by the AMA (American Medical Association) in 1956. In 1991, it found a place in both the psychiatric and medical sections of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD); the classification used to code and classify mortality data from death certificates.
And yet, myths persist. [...]


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		<title>United Kingdom Welcomes Betty Ford Center CEO and Children&#8217;s Programs Director</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/united-kingdom-welcomes-betty-ford-center-ceo-and-childrens-programs-director.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Betty Ford Center CEO John Schwarzlose and Jerry Moe, National Director of the Center’s Children’s Programs, recently traveled to the United Kingdom for speaking engagements in Ireland and London.
Mr. Moe lectured on “Alcoholism: Changing the Family Legacy” at an event organized by Toranfield House Centre at the Stillorgan Park Hotel in Dublin before joining Mr. [...]


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		<title>Holiday Season Survival Skills and Tips</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/holiday-season-survival-skills-and-tips.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holiday celebrations often carry a burden of expectations, so we offer this list of ideas to make your upcoming holiday season more comfortable.

Keep it simple. Whatever it is &#8211; food, family &#8211; remember that less is more and more can be overwhelming.
Decide what you can handle comfortably and let family and friends know. Ask yourself if you can handle [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center 29th Anniversary Draws Hundreds to the Desert</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A forecast of rain did nothing to dampen the enthusiastic gratitude of alumni who descended on Rancho Mirage to celebrate the Betty Ford Center’s 29th anniversary November 11-13.
Activities began with a golf tournament Friday morning that drew foursomes back to Desert Willow Country Club in Palm Desert.  On a personal note, one golfer who has [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center forms Liaison with British Psychiatrist</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/betty-ford-center-forms-liaison-with-british-psychiatrist.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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John Schwarzlose, CEO of the Betty Ford Center, recently announced that Dr. Brian Wells (pictured here) is now serving as an international liaison psychiatrist for the addiction treatment center.
In this position, Dr. Wells will represent Betty Ford Center at meetings and/or conferences; participate in and/or facilitate interventions; organize or conduct pre-admission assessments; organize continuing care for [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center Spiritual Counselor&#8217;s Book Wins Award</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/addiction/betty-ford-center-spiritual-counselors-book-wins-award.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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Amazing Grief: A Healing Guide for Parents of Young Addicts by Rev. Charles F. Harper, M.Div., has been selected as a winner of the USA Best Books 2011 Awards.
Reverend Harper is a spiritual counselor at the Betty Ford Center.
The publication took first place in the category of Health:  Addiction &#38; Recovery, according to Jeffrey Keen, [...]


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		<title>Painkiller Overdoses Accelerate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently announced that deaths due to prescription opioid medication overdoses more than tripled over the last decade, to nearly 15,000 in 2008.  That&#8217;s up from 4,000 in 1999, Len Paulozzi, MD, of the CDC, and colleagues reported in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and in a ‘Vital [...]


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		<title>Country Pays a Heavy Price for Heavy Drinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Lewin Group shows that in 2006, excessive alcohol consumption cost the United States $223.5 billion dollars.
Almost three-quarters of these costs were due to binge drinking, which is defined as consuming four or more alcoholic beverages per occasion for women or five [...]


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		<title>Senior Addiction Statistics Expected to Triple by 2020</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/senior-addiction-statistics-expected-to-triple-by-2020.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent government reports show an estimated three million American seniors suffer from alcoholism or drug dependency, and the number is expected to triple by 2020.
Stressors such as financial strain, failing health and job insecurity fuel other behavioral addictions, such as compulsive gambling, as well as substance abuse.
While alcoholism is the most predominant addiction among seniors, [...]


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		<title>Self-reported Annual Drinking and Driving Episodes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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Recent statistics from the CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System show a drop in self-reported annual drinking and driving episodes.



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		<title>2010 Survey Results &#8211; Drinking and Driving by Gender and Age</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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There is a dramatic difference in the percentages of men and women who drink and drive in this 2010 chart provided by the CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.



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		<title>Betty Ford Center is 29 Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Schwarzlose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 29th Anniversary of the opening of the Betty Ford Center.
On October 4, 1982, two women and two men were admitted to the Betty Ford Center, and the adventure of treatment and recovery began.  Almost 97,000 patients later, the Center sets the standard for quality care.
The history of the Betty Ford Center is [...]


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		<title>Consequences of Codependency</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The term ‘codependent’ is traditionally used as an adjective to describe the family members and other loved ones of a chemically dependent person; however, studies show that that codependency is often considered an addiction in itself.
Psychologist Robert Subby defines codependence as “…an emotional, psychological and behavioral condition that develops as a result of an individual’s [...]


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		<title>Young Adults Experience Memorable Hike</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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Mark Baumgartner, Betty Ford Center Director of Inpatient Treatment Services [pictured here, right] and Patrick Haggerson, Program Director of Ethno-Cultural Activities [pictured here, left] teamed with Jennifer Dewey, Director of Fitness and James Barry, Residential Day Treatment Young Adult Track Counselor,  to lead a group of 19 young adults on an all-day hiking excursion into the San [...]


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		<title>&#8216;Under the Influence&#8217; Program on Nick News Wins Emmy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Creative Arts portion of the 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards presented September 10, 2011, &#8220;Nick News With Linda Ellerbee: Under the Influence: Kids of Alcoholics&#8221; received the award for Best Children&#8217;s Nonfiction Reality or Reality-Competition Program.
The program features Jerry Moe, Vice-President and National Director of Children&#8217;s Programs, Betty Ford Institute.    The program debuted in November 2010 [...]


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		<title>Drug, Alcohol Risk Increased for Youths Using Social Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the &#8216;National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse XVI:  Teens and Parents&#8217;, conducted by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA Columbia,) American teens ages 12-17 are at increased risk of smoking, drinking and drug use if they spend time on social networking sites.
This was the first time [...]


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		<title>Stay inside your own Hula Hoop!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Connor Clark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I stand directly in the center of a ‘mental hula hoop’, everything inside it is my responsibility.  This includes my actions, my thoughts, my words – all of my “stuff.”
Whatever is outside of that circle is none of my business.
Of course I can reach out from inside my hoop to help others, and I can [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center Recognizes National Recovery Month</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[September is National Recovery Month (Recovery Month,) a national observance created to raise awareness among Americans so they understand that a healthy, rewarding life is possible for those with a substance use or mental disorder.   The main focus is to emphasize the strides made by those in recovery from these conditions, just as those who [...]


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		<title>Unique Conference Scheduled in Ireland</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/unique-conference-slated-in-ireland.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This fall, Toranfield House and Southworth &#38; Associates are hosting Ireland&#8217;s first International Conference and Exhibition on behavioural health, including addiction disorders.
The &#8216;NEAR&#8217; (Neuroscience and Evidence Based Practices for Addiction Recovery) Conference will be held November 11-13 in Wicklow, Ireland.
&#8220;The Betty Ford Center proudly endorses this unique addiction conference, &#8220;said John Schwarzlose, CEO of the [...]


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		<title>Musician Brings Insight to Patients</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/musician-brings-insight-to-patients.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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The Betty Ford Center Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) recently had a true spiritual experience. Jim Smith (in the photo here with Patrick Haggerson, left), a musician from London with 34 years of sobriety, performed a mini-concert for patients. Jim is traveling on a Winston Churchill Fellowship, researching the use of music as therapy in alcohol and drug treatment [...]


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		<title>Message of Gratitude Gives Hope</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several of the walls in the Betty Ford Center Admissions area feature letters of gratitude written to Betty Ford.  Recently, an anxious father bringing his son to treatment asked to have a copy of the letter written by alumna Cini R., saying her words gave him both hope and comfort: 
Dear Mrs. Ford,
It is with deep [...]


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		<title>Definitions Add Depth to Betty Ford Center Pain Management Track</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patients treated at Betty Ford Center include those with co-occurring disorders such as chronic pain.  Addiction to pain medication is a frequent diagnosis, and the Center’s Pain Management Track goes well beyond the traditional approach of symptom relief.
Chronic pain is a disease of the brain, and– given an optimal environment – the brain of the [...]


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		<title>New Treatment Phase for Young Adults Now Available</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 06:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Betty Ford Center now offers an extended, structured phase for young adults who have a desire and willingness to pursue employment or educational goals while in addiction treatment.
The Young Adult Track (YAT) is designed to meet the unique treatment needs of young adults ages 18-25, who are financially dependent upon their parents or other [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center Co-Founder Betty Ford Leaves $500,000 in Bequests to Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Board of Directors Chairman Mary Pattiz Announces Gift
 Three weeks to the day before she passed away July 8, 2011, former First Lady Betty Ford signed the final version of her will, in which she makes a $400,000 cash bequest to the addiction treatment hospital she co-founded in 1982.
“We are so grateful for this generous gift,” [...]


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		<title>All Signs Point to Alcoholism, but Help is Available</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas McLellan Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently asked, “Am I am alcoholic?”
The person asking the question specifically said that when he drinks, he loses control, doesn’t know when to stop and becomes belligerent toward family and friends.  When sober, he honestly feels he wants to quit.
I’ll begin with the end message:  He has come to an important point in [...]


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		<title>“The Steps Work You &#8211; Fifth Step”</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/the-steps-work-you-fifth-step.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Rohrer</dc:creator>
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I did my Fifth Step with my sponsor sitting on lawn chairs in a park in Santa Monica.  I feared that in sharing my secrets with my sponsor, he would find me contemptible.
I was disappointed when it was over.  I was expecting…something.  But there was no white light.
Then again, I had told the truth about [...]


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		<title>Using Action to Explore the 12 Steps with Families</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jean Campbell, LCSW, CET III, TEP, is the speaker Saturday, August 13, for the Integrating Modern Psychotherapy and 12 Step Recovery Program Series at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.
The event is co-sponsored by the Betty Ford Center, Cottage Health System and Visions Adolescent Treatment Centers.
Her topic – “Using Action to Explore the 12 Steps with Families” [...]


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		<title>Medications are not a Roadblock to Treatment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. James Golden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. James Golden, Betty Ford Center Inpatient Addiction Physician, recently responded to questions that have been raised by people on prescribed medications who are scheduled to enter treatment.
 Asked how often patients come to treatment with prescribed medications, the doctor said that almost all arrive with some sort of prescribed medicine, ranging from thyroid medication to [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford    1918 &#8211; 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 17:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Schwarzlose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patients often affectionately refer to the Betty Ford Center as “Camp Betty.”  That would always bring a smile to Betty’s face.  At the Center, she was never Mrs. Ford.  She was Betty.
 To reflect on Betty Ford is a daunting task. One of the principles she embraced was to never give up on an alcoholic or [...]


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		<title>The History, the Legacy</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/the-history-the-legacy.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 03:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Betty Ford]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
The history of the Betty Ford Center is part of the life story of our founder, former First Lady Betty Ford.
After completing her own treatment for chemical dependency at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Long Beach, Mrs. Ford talked to her friends about the need for a treatment center that emphasized the special needs of [...]


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		<title>Hope in Sobriety Leads to Mt. Everest</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/hope-in-sobriety-leads-to-mt-everest.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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By Michael O.
I began climbing at age 11, ascending Mt. Whiney in the Sierra Nevadas and learning how to rock-climb in the San Fernando Valley outside of Los Angeles. While attending Colorado University, my climbing extended to Rocky Mountain National Park, Boulder Canyon, El Dorado Canyon and some of the ‘Front Range 14ers.’
In 2001, I [...]


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		<title>Spirituality Workshop Set for Seattle</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured/spirituality-workshop-set-for-seattle.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[12 Steps]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Betty Ford Center alumni in the Seattle area are hosting a workshop titled “To Practice These Principles in all our Affairs … Spirituality of 12 Steps” on Saturday, July 23 in Federal Way, WA.  The one-day event will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. with lunch provided, and the registration fee is $50.
According to [...]


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		<title>Older Drinkers Face More Risks from Alcohol</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/education/older-drinkers-face-more-risks-from-alcohol.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/education/older-drinkers-face-more-risks-from-alcohol.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alcohol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elderly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medication]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent report from the Royal College of Psychiatrists says people over the age of 65 who drink alcohol need to remember that older drinkers aren’t able to process alcohol as quickly as younger people, and that alcohol has the potential to interact unfavorably with medication they may be taking.
A group of experts from the [...]


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		<title>Driving, Drinking and Destruction</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured/driving-drinking-and-destruction.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
The statistics are shocking and sobering:  According to information from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) via the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 30 people die each day in alcohol-related crashes in the United States.   In 2009, 10,839 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for nearly a third of all traffic-related deaths in [...]


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		<title>“Meeting Makers Make It”</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/meeting-makers-make-it.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Rohrer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Methods/Techniques]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[12 Step meetings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[camaraderie]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I was just going to a meeting.
In the beginning, I went to meetings mostly on the west side of greater L.A. – Santa Monica, Venice, Culver City, Marina Del Ray. In order to meet my goal of a meeting a day, I often left my work in West Hollywood each day at noon [...]


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		<title>What is a Hangover?</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/what-is-a-hangover.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The term hangover was originally a 19th-century expression that described unfinished business—something left over from a meeting—or &#8220;survival.&#8221; The meaning of hangover as “morning after-effect of drinking too much&#8221; first surfaced in 1904.
A few of the signs and symptoms of a hangover include the following:

anxiety
decreased attention and concentration
depression
fatigue
headache
irritability
nausea
sensitivity to light and sound
sweating
thirst
vertigo
vomiting

Generally speaking, the more [...]


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		<title>A Conversation with Dr. Peter Przekop about the Betty Ford Center&#8217;s Unique Pain Management Track</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/treatment/a-conversation-with-dr-peter-przekop-about-the-betty-ford-centers-unique-pain-management-track.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Przekop D.O.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2010, Betty Ford Center staff teamed up with Peter Przekop, D.O., Ph.D., a Board-certified Pain and Addiction physician, to design a Pain Management Track.  A primary diagnosis of chemical dependency is necessary for admission to the Betty Ford Center.  If the patient demonstrates significant pain issues, she/he is offered a 45-day schedule to focus [...]


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		<title>Creative Intoxication Brings Sobering Consequences</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/addiction/creative-intoxication-brings-sobering-consequences.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/addiction/creative-intoxication-brings-sobering-consequences.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 18:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Connor Clark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Addiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[They eat alcohol-infused whipping cream, slurp gelatin shots and starve themselves during the day to offset the calories in the alcohol they plan to consume after classes that night.  They also rely on more traditional methods, such as competitively chugging beer with their fraternity brothers.  They do what they can to get drunk; however – [...]


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		<title>Prescription Drug Abuse</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/video-addiction/prescription-drug-abuse.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Harry Haroutunian, Physician Director, Licensed Health Professionals Program speaks about Prescription Drug Abuse in this Betty Ford Center Recovery Series, part 1.  Stay tuned for more in this series.



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		<title>Love the One You are With</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/love-the-one-you-are-with.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/love-the-one-you-are-with.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 22:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Rohrer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[clarity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gratitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intimacy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I‘ve heard it said that if drinking and using was the only thing wrong with me, everything should have been fine when I stopped. But of course, it wasn‘t.
Once I had some time to heal without re-injuring myself, I learned that I had a legacy of difficulty with emotional intimacy due to being raised by [...]


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		<title>A Video Post</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/video-addiction/a-video-post.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some teaser text



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		<title>Pursuing Justice Takes a Toll on Judges</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/education/pursuing-justice-takes-a-toll-on-judges.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/education/pursuing-justice-takes-a-toll-on-judges.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Johanna OFlaherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcohol treatment center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trauma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Johanna O’Flaherty, Vice President of Treatment Services at Betty Ford Center, recently traveled to Calgary, Alberta, Canada to give a presentation as part of the Education Program of the Alberta Provincial Judges’ Association.
The Norlien Foundation &#8211; a private foundation with offices in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta – had sponsored a group of eight Alberta judges [...]


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		<title>&#8220;Late Bloomer&#8221;</title>
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		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/late-bloomer.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 22:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Rohrer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Methods/Techniques]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[growth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was almost ten years sober in September of 2001. I was living in New York City about a mile from Ground Zero. I had to show my ID to the National Guard just to get to my apartment.
I was laid off from the sales job I had with a media company the week after [...]


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		<title>Significant Events in the History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/significant-events-in-the-history-of-addiction-treatment-and-recovery-in-america.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 18:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1750 to Early 1800s 
Alcoholic mutual aid societies (sobriety &#8220;Circles&#8221;) are formed within various Native American tribes. Some are part of, or evolve into, abstinence-based Native American cultural revitalization movements and temperance organizations.
 
1774 
Anthony Benezet&#8217;s Mighty Destroyer Displayed is published. It is the earliest American essay on alcoholism.
 
1784 
Dr. Benjamin Rush&#8217;s Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits [...]


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		<title>Changing the Family Legacy</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/programs/changing-the-family-legacy.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 22:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Moe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A long-held tenet in the treatment and recovery worlds is that alcoholism and other drug addictions are a family disease. Everyone in the family, including children, gets hurt by this cunning, powerful, and baffling illness. All too often it becomes a family legacy that gets passed from generation to generation. Where does it stop?
Children’s programs [...]


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		<title>&#8220;Willingness&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/willingness.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 22:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Rohrer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recovery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere around my sixth year of sobriety, I was in New York City on a business trip.  I was also taking my 10-year old daughter from L.A., where she had been living with me, to her new home with her mom so she could start school in September.  I was moving to New York in [...]


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		<title>Symposium Draws World-wide Attention</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/symposium-draws-world-wide-attention.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 21:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Schwarzlose, CEO of the Betty Ford Center, is a presenter at the United Kingdom/European Symposium of Addictive Disease (UKESAD,) underway in London from May 19-21.  He joins an array of addiction experts from around the world, each chosen to share their expertise with over 500 attendees from five continents.
Each of the 40 presentations and [...]


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		<title>&#8216;Too Much, Too Soon&#8217; can be a Challenge in Early Recovery</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/too-much-too-soon-can-be-a-challenge-in-early-recovery.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 21:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As they begin to feel better physically and emotionally, men and women in addiction treatment often start making plans for all sorts of impressive activities: “I’m going to contact my congressman and get involved in local government as soon as I get out of treatment” or “I am going to write an editorial on addiction [...]


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		<title>&#8220;What Goes Around Comes Around&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 22:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Rohrer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newly sober, it was awkward living with my spouse after we had agreed that we would separate.  She grew up in an alcoholic home and didn’t think much of her mother’s program, or the 12-Step program in general.
 But my awakening to my spiritual needs, and my growing autonomy, contributed to her beginning a search for [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center Panel to Serve as Substance Abuse Experts on WebMD Health Network</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/betty-ford-center-panel-to-serve-as-substance-abuse-experts-on-webmd-health-network.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 14:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Betty Ford Center professionals have been chosen to serve as a panel of experts providing information in the Substance Abuse Community on the WebMD Health Network, the leading provider of online health information.
The non-profit Betty Ford Center is located in Rancho Mirage, CA as a licensed addiction hospital and offers highly effective alcohol and other [...]


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		<title>&#8220;Rude Awakening&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 22:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Rohrer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Herberto (I’ll call him here) continued to maintain that his cravings had lifted and that relapse was not an option after nine months of treatment in the methadone to abstinence therapeutic community where I was his counselor.
 No amount of coaxing him to consider that he might have a different experience outside a protected environment succeeded [...]


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		<title>Prescription Medication Abuse Rises to Epidemic Proportions</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured/prescription-medication-abuse-rises-to-epidemic-proportions.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 17:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Harry Haroutunian, Physician Director of the Licensed Health Professionals Program at the Betty Ford Center, recently participated in a White House conference call regarding prescription medication abuse.
In his own words, Dr. Haroutunian – known as ‘Dr. Harry’ to his many patients and colleagues – shares his thoughts about this epidemic:
I have processed hundreds of [...]


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		<title>&#8220;Right Sized&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Rohrer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first meeting I went to should have been ideal, considering my grandiosity—it was a candlelight meeting, musicians and actors, a beautiful Quaker meeting house, French doors opening onto a garden, lots of leather pants and native American jewelry, the epitome of hip, slick and cool—but I remember my despair that even here, this place [...]


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		<title>&#8220;Rice&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Rohrer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out to dinner one night with my wife and some friends, a man approached our table.
“I’m sorry to interrupt” he said “but you were my counselor last year, and I wanted you to know that I went to outpatient treatment as you recommended and something happened.  Do you remember that you told me that I [...]


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		<title>Prescription Drug Abuse Leads to Increase in Hospital Visits</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured/prescription-drug-abuse-leads-to-increase-in-hospital-visits.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) recently found there were about 1.2 million visits to emergency rooms involving pharmaceutical drugs in 2009, compared with 627,000 in 2004. The data collected excluded visits due to adverse reactions to drugs taken as prescribed.
R. Gil Kerlikowske, President Obama’s top drug policy adviser, said that emergency [...]


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		<title>Alcohol, Remorse and Hope</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James W. West M.D. F.A.C.S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Question:  My husband is an alcoholic. His drinking has gotten much worse, and now we are separated. I just couldn’t stand the uncertainty of life with a periodic alcoholic. What are the chances of recovery in a person who can stay sober months at a time and then &#8211; with no warning-  suddenly will get drunk [...]


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		<title>What is Craving?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 22:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James W. West M.D. F.A.C.S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Question:  What is craving? I am a recovering alcoholic who once spent a couple of days  in the hospital where the doctor gave me something because I was getting the shakes. The only other time I felt shaky was when I went into an alcohol treatment center where they gave me a tranquilizer to detox. I [...]


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		<title>&#8220;New Paradigm&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/new-paradigm.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Rohrer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[12-Step sponsorship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sponsor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I wasn’t looking for a sponsor—I could barely get past my shame enough to identify as a newcomer—when I was approached by a guy at a meeting.
 “You’re new, aren’t you?” he said.
 “Do you have a sponsor?” he said.
 “I’ll be your temporary sponsor.” he said.
 I heard temporary and thought, “Temporary, great.  I can blow this guy [...]


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		<title>&#8220;Moment of Clarity&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/moment-of-clarity.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/moment-of-clarity.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Rohrer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clarity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[identification]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I went alone to my second AA meeting.  I felt hopeless based on my first meeting, but I was out of options.
 Early in the meeting, a man at the podium identified as an addict.  Another man in the audience stood up and said,” This is an AA meeting.  I hope you can find it in [...]


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		<title>Mary Gordon to Present at Networking Education Event</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/mary-gordon-to-present-at-networking-education-event.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/mary-gordon-to-present-at-networking-education-event.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family resiliency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Mary Gordon, Director of Family and Outpatient Services for the Betty Ford Center, will present on the topic &#8220;Moving from Pathology to Resiliency When Working with Families in Recovery&#8221; on April 15 as part of the Networking Education Event for 2011.  The program will be held at Shilo Hilltop Suites in Pomona, CA, the cost is $30 (includes [...]


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		<title>&#8220;Listening Through&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/listening-through.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/listening-through.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Rohrer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-esteem]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My first job in chemical dependency treatment was as an overnight tech for Hazelden’s residential facility on 17th Street on the east side of Manhattan.
 One night at 11:30 as I came on for my shift, an 18-year old female resident was crying in the office.  After a lengthy conversation with the tech that I was [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center Acknowledges Alcohol Awareness Month</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/betty-ford-center-acknowledges-alcohol-awareness-month.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/betty-ford-center-acknowledges-alcohol-awareness-month.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[            &#8220;Seventeen years of research have shown that a child who reaches age 21 without smoking, using illicit drugs or abusing alcohol is virtually certain never to do so.&#8221; —Center for Alcohol and Substance Abuse at Columbia University
            April is Alcohol Awareness Month, giving the Betty Ford Center an opportunity to further raise the level [...]


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		<title>Bringing Hope for Kids to New Heights</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured/bringing-hope-for-kids-to-new-heights.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured/bringing-hope-for-kids-to-new-heights.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[achievement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hope]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My name is Mike, and I’m in recovery.
I have been a climber since the age of 12, and it has always been my passion.  Alcoholism at its worst destroyed any thought of climbing again and nearly killed me.
At Betty Ford Center, my counselor asked us to draw a “Timeline” of our lives, looking back on [...]


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		<title>Can Addiction Cause Mental Illness?</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/education/can-addiction-cause-mental-illness.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/education/can-addiction-cause-mental-illness.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental illness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Sean Barlow, M.D., Betty Ford Center’s Chief Psychiatrist, recently responded to the following questions:

 What is a ‘working definition’ of insanity? 

Insanity is a legal definition used to base competence, not a psychiatric or mental health definition.

Can addiction suppress mental illness?

No.  Addiction tends to make mental illness worse.

Can addiction cause mental illness?

Yes.  Addiction can cause substance-induced psychiatric [...]


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		<title>&#8220;Ground Zero&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/ground-zero.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/ground-zero.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Rohrer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[staying sober]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My home group in New York City was the morning meeting at Perry Street in the West Village. On September 11th, 2001, there were people at the afternoon meeting covered in ash.  They had walked up from what we would come to call Ground Zero, and come to the meeting. It was not necessary to [...]


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		<title>Relapse Issues Addressed in Treatment</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/treatment/relapse-issues-addressed-in-treatment.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/treatment/relapse-issues-addressed-in-treatment.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Treatment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relapse prevention]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Toni Tufo, MA
Chemical Dependency Counselor
Relapse Specialty Group was developed primarily to assist patients in gaining awareness and insight about their prior relapses and to educate them in an effort to prevent a future relapse.  
Patients are educated about the relapse warning signs and symptoms as well as the triggers.  We talk about high-risk people, [...]


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		<title>&#8220;God Shot”</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/god-shot%e2%80%9d.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Rohrer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[promise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[responsibility]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Not quite two years sober, sitting at my desk at my job in West Hollywood in July, I had a moment of clarity; I was never going anywhere if I didn’t make a plan.  I picked up the phone and made a reservation for my five-year old daughter and me in Yosemite for the following [...]


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		<title>Anger Management Group Important in Treatment</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured/anger-management-group-important-in-treatment.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anger management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Lynne Ludwick, MA, MFTI
Chemical Dependency Counselor
Anger Management at Betty Ford Center began as a group that I held with male patients who had anger problems.  Other counselors asked if they could send patients from their halls, and it eventually grew into a specialty group for patients on all the halls.
The group is based on [...]


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		<title>Specialty Group Enhances Treatment Experience</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/treatment/specialty-group-enhances-treatment-experience.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Treatment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[group experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trust]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Dr. James Golden
Betty Ford Center Director of Inpatient Medical Services

The ‘Opiate Hour’ was originally established to give Betty Ford Center patients who were detoxing from opiates an opportunity to share their experiences with each other and ask questions of me as their addiction doctor.
We found that many patients had questions about Buprenorphine and were [...]


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		<title>12-Step Survey Results Available</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/12-step-survey-results-available.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[statistics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Results of the 2007 Member Survey of Alcoholics Anonymous show a variety of lengths of sobriety. The next membership survey will take place in late summer of 2011.



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		<title>Underage Drinking Statistics are Sobering</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/underage-drinking-statistics-are-sobering.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Schwarzlose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[statistics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) says that 30 percent of U.S. eighth graders drink alcohol, and 20 percent binge drink, according to a March 4 story in HealthDay. In that light, it&#8217;s particularly chilling to learn (also from HealthDay) that Federal statistics show that underage drinkers are responsible for about 546 visits to emergency rooms [...]


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		<title>&#8220;Gladly&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/gladly.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Rohrer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ It turns out that my four year-old daughter didn’t really want to hear about her dad’s recovery—she wanted her dad back, whole, complete.  She cared a lot less about what I brought to her than the time I took over what she brought to me, “That’s the most fabulous hand print saucer I’ve ever seen, [...]


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		<title>Medical Student Unique Education Opportunity</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/education/filling-in-a-gap-in-medical-education.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/education/filling-in-a-gap-in-medical-education.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Application Deadline for Summer Program is March 18, 2011!)
Is it true that most medical students become licensed as physicians without having been taught to recognize an addict when they see one in their practice?
Unfortunately, the reality is that medical students still have few opportunities to learn in school about diagnosing and treating addiction. This dearth [...]


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		<title>Serving Alcohol to Young People at Home is Risky</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/serving-alcohol-to-young-people-at-home-is-risky.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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Close to three-quarters of a million young people age 12 to 14 currently drink alcohol in the United States, and more than 100,000 of them got their alcohol free from a parent or guardian.
According to a new study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), 5.9 percent of 12 to 14 year [...]


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		<title>Working Through Pain in Recovery</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/working-through-pain-in-recovery.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in a chaotic, alcoholic family, but I didn&#8217;t realize alcohol was the problem, I just knew I was unhappy, so when I grew up, I drank. I thought that&#8217;s what grownups did. I had a glass of wine when I got home from work to decompress from my wretched job, and another [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center CEO Will Open April Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/betty-ford-center-ceo-slated-to-open-april-conference.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 18:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[intervention]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[John T. Schwarzlose, Betty Ford Center CEO, will be the opening keynote speaker at the ‘Moment of Change Intervention Approaches for Professionals’ conference April 6-9, 2011 at the Desert Springs JW Marriott Resort &#38; Spa in Palm Desert, CA.
Johanna O’Flaherty, Ph.D., Vice President, Director of Treatment Services and counselor Gisela Ghaemi, Ed.D., are also on [...]


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		<title>Here I Am, A Grateful Alcoholic</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/here-i-am-a-grateful-alcoholic.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[12 Step program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcoholism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I battled anxiety, depression and panic disorder all my life.  I was also plagued with crippling low self-esteem.  I tried to solve these problems with therapy and every tranquilizer and anti-depressant my doctors prescribed.  Nothing ever worked for long.  Eventually I turned to alcohol to find calm and ended up needing it just to get [...]


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		<title>“Give Time Time”</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/%e2%80%9cgive-time-time%e2%80%9d.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/%e2%80%9cgive-time-time%e2%80%9d.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Rohrer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first counselor job was on the lower east side of Manhattan in a one-hundred bed, co-ed, long-term Methadone to abstinence residential facility that used the Therapeutic Community model.
 We had weekly encounter groups, patients wore signs at morning meetings for contracts (‘I received this contract for sneaky behavior; what I have learned is to be [...]


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		<title>Therapy on Four Legs</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/treatment/therapy-on-four-legs.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Connor Clark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The group therapy session began, and the woman who was reluctant to participate sat a bit apart from the others, arms folded. As the group members tried to coax her into sharing, her eye was caught by a small, furry brown presence at her feet. Toby, therapy-dog-in-training, was on the job. The Cavalier King Charles [...]


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		<title>World Health Organization Releases Startling Information</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/education/world-health-organization-releases-startling-information.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[number one killer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Health Organization]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ John Schwarzlose, CEO of the Betty Ford Center, recently commented on the World Health Organization’s report that labeled alcoholism the primary cause of death in 4% of the world population.
 “The World Health Organization released a wake-up call to the world about the deleterious effects of alcohol,” said Mr. Schwarzlose.  “Alcohol continues to be a major [...]


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		<title>&#8220;Can I deduct any of my expenses paid to BFC as a medical expense?*&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/can-i-deduct-any-of-my-expenses-paid-to-bfc-as-a-medical-expense.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Author Dave Hutchison is the Planned Giving Officer for the Betty Ford Center Foundation.]
Generally, medical expenses, including amounts paid for medical treatment, drugs and medicines, nursing care and certain transportation and travel required for medical care, are deductible as an itemized deduction.  Amounts paid for inpatient treatment of alcoholism or drug addiction at a therapeutic center [...]


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		<title>Value of Treatment Outweighs ‘Rehabbing’ at Home</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured/value-of-treatment-outweighs-%e2%80%98rehabbing%e2%80%99-at-home.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ ‘Home rehab’ may sound comfortable to the alcoholic/addict trying to quit, but any advantages are outweighed by negative consequences, according to Betty Ford Center physician Dr. James Golden.
“There are way too many environmental triggers in the home environment,” said Dr. Golden.  “The alcoholic know where the trapdoors, safety nets and comfort zones are.  These are [...]


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		<title>Eating Disorder Recognition Hits Home for Counselor</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/eating-disorder-recognition-hits-home-for-counselor.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[eating disorders]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[February 20-26 is National Eating Disorder Week, a subject “near and dear” to the heart of Betty Ford Center counselor Karin Eklund.
“I had anorexia, which transitioned into bulimia, for over 20 years along with my own alcoholism,” Karin said recently.
 Her story is chilling:  When she went through alcohol treatment for her dependency for the first [...]


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		<title>Long-Term Alcoholism Can Cause ‘Wet Brain’</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured/long-term-alcoholism-can-cause-wet-brain.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured/long-term-alcoholism-can-cause-wet-brain.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James W. West M.D. F.A.C.S.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alcoholism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wet brain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ The term “wet brain” is not scientifically valid, but refers to a very real condition known as Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome.  This chronic brain syndrome is caused by long-term alcoholism and is accompanied by a triad of symptoms:  (1) mental disturbance; (2) confusion, drowsiness, and paralysis of eye movements; and (3) ataxia, or a staggering gait.  A [...]


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		<title>Minerva Award Winner, Betty Ford, Receives Grant Award</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/minerva-award-winner-betty-ford-receives-grant-award.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/minerva-award-winner-betty-ford-receives-grant-award.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[grant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minerva award]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Former First Lady, Betty Ford, was awarded a grant of $10,000 in appreciation for her work as an “Architect of Change” from The California Governor and First Lady’s Conference on Women.
In a letter dated January 24th, Executive Director Erin Mulcahy Stein wrote, “As a Minerva winner, you are forever part of the legacy of California [...]


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		<title>My Father&#8217;s Son</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/my-fathers-son.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Rohrer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Until I got sober, I didn’t understand that because I had grown up with an alcoholic father, there was a blank spot in me when it came to expectations about men and about me.
My dad was a good guy, well-meaning and a good provider, never intentionally cruel or unkind.  He was, however, more or less [...]


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		<title>&#8216;Drug Czar&#8217; Gil Kerlikowske Visits Betty Ford Center</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/drug-czar-gil-kerlikowske-visits-betty-ford-center.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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Betty Ford Center CEO John Schwarzlose recently welcomed the current Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Gil Kerlikowske, for a tour of the Center and a visit with members of the Center’s senior leadership team.
Mr. Kerlikowske’s position is generally referred to as the United States &#8216;Drug Czar&#8217;, and he assumed office on May 7, [...]


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		<title>Alcohol Awareness Hour Underway</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/education/betty-ford-center-alcohol-awareness-hour-begins-in-january.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcohol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drugs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Alcohol and Other Drugs Awareness Hour is celebrating its 35th year with a series of lectures being held from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. at no cost at the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences on the Eisenhower Medical Center campus.   
This year’s schedule is as follows:
 January 22, 2011
Topic:         “The Lost Years: A Story of Inspiration and Recovery”
Speaker:     Kristina Wandzilak [...]


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		<title>Lines in the Sand</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/programs/lines-in-the-sand.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/programs/lines-in-the-sand.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary McGraw Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Programs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family boundaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family roles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Setting healthy boundaries is a very real need for any family beginning a recovery path. While patients returning home must establish new and healthy boundaries to support their recovery, so too must their family and loved ones develop their own. For many, this is a daunting task, complicated by addiction&#8217;s injurious impact on family relationships. [...]


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		<title>Networking Education Series Begins Soon</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/education/networking-education-series-begins-soon.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/education/networking-education-series-begins-soon.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[12 Steps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Allen Berger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lecture series]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ The Networking Education Events for 2011, co-sponsored by Betty Ford Center and Social Model Recovery Systems, beings February 11, 2011.  The program is held from 11:30am-1:30pm at Shilo Hilltop Suites in Pomona, CA.  The $30 cost includes lunch, and two CEUS (Continuing Education Units) will be provided. 
The first presentation is by Dr. Allen Berger on [...]


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		<title>Thank You for Helping Me Get my Life Back</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/thank-you-for-helping-me-get-my-life-back.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/thank-you-for-helping-me-get-my-life-back.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rehab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treatment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The morning of January 26, 2010 will forever stand out in my mind, for that is not only my sobriety date, but the day my life changed forever. When I woke up that morning and tried to get out of bed, my legs refused to work. Even in that dark moment, I hesitated to call [...]


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		<title>I thought alcohol addiction only hurt me</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/addiction/i-am-only-hurting-myself.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/addiction/i-am-only-hurting-myself.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Connor Clark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcohol addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[excuses]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Justifying my continued use of alcohol and drugs was second nature to me when I was in the depths of my disease.  Even though any semblance of control was long gone – along with the notion that choice was still an option – I still had a litany of reasons why my behavior was acceptable.
 What [...]


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		<title>&#8220;First Things First&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/first-things-first.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Rohrer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[12 Steps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sobriety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At a retreat, I heard Father Terry give two criteria for a sponsor: someone who wouldn’t give you too much advice, and someone who wouldn’t be burdened by your secrets.
 I didn’t pick my sponsor, which was a good thing since my ‘picker’ was broken.  Instead, my sponsor was picked for me, and I was cared [...]


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		<title>What is the Betty Ford Center? An Alcohol Treatment Center?</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured/what-is-the-betty-ford-center-2.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the Betty Ford Center an alcoholtreatment center?  Or is it a drug rehabilitation center? 
The facility has been called everything from ‘clinic’ to ‘rehab’, but the correct answer is something else altogether:  Betty Ford Center (BFC) is a not-for-profit, separately licensed residential chemical dependency recovery hospital which offers inpatient, outpatient and day treatment for alcohol and [...]


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		<title>&#8220;Stand in the Light&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/stand-in-the-light.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Rohrer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friendship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[preconceptions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In playful irony, my Higher Power chooses to speak to me through the most unlikely people.
 He smoked, he had a ‘cock-of-the-walk’ arrogance to him, and he seemed perpetually angry. Of this small group of recovering men that I was part of, he was the one that I liked the least.  I couldn’t believe that he [...]


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		<title>STATEMENT FROM THE BETTY FORD CENTER</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/bfc/statement-from-the-betty-ford-center.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/bfc/statement-from-the-betty-ford-center.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 03:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Betty Ford Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[confidentiality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the three decades since our doors opened to patients October 4, 1982, the Betty Ford Center and its employees have respected the privacy of our patients, all our patients.
Ninety-six thousand women and men have come to the Center for addiction treatment over the past 28 years.
When patients come to the Center for treatment, they [...]


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		<title>Alumnus Shares Holiday Gratitude</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/alumnus-shares-holiday-gratitude.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[appreciation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What a blessing to be in treatment during the Holidays.&#8221; 
Strange statement I wrote in my journal many years ago.
What happened to my resentment and self pity?
Perhaps, the true spirit of that holiday was that my gift, to be opened, was the removal of my obsession and relief of my burden.
 Then it came to me that being [...]


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		<title>Is Alcohol Deadlier than Drugs?</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured/is-alcohol-deadlier-than-drugs.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alcohol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcoholism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crack cocaine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heroin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to a recent study paid for by Britain’s Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, alcohol is more dangerous than illegal drugs such as heroin and crack cocaine.  The results were published November 1 in The Lancet medical journal.
British experts evaluated substances including alcohol, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and marijuana, ranking them based on how destructive [...]


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		<title>Smart Feet</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/smart-feet.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Rohrer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Rohrer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Father Terry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retreat]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I went to my first retreat because it was suggested that I do so—I was enjoying a period of ‘smart feet.’ As it happened, it was a weekend Step Study with Father Terry at Casa de Maria in Montecito, just south of Santa Barbara. Casa de Maria was an old estate that dated from the [...]


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		<title>Behind the Scenes in Alumni Services</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/behind-the-scenes-in-alumni-services.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/behind-the-scenes-in-alumni-services.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Methods/Techniques]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alumni]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alumni services]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Betty Ford Center Alumni Services staff takes their responsibility to alumni seriously, offering a wide variety of services both during and after treatment.
The staff of five includes a department secretary; each of the other four is responsible for a designated on-site residence hall as well as CDE (Clinical Diagnostic Evaluation) transfers and the Intensive [...]


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		<title>Dr. Garrett OConnor Honored in Ireland</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/dr-garrett-oconnor-honored-in-ireland.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 22:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Garrett O'Connor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trauma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
On December 2, 2010, in a ceremony scaled down due to extremely adverse weather conditions, the Chancellor of the National University of Ireland, Dublin, conferred honorary doctorate degrees on actor, Brendan Gleeson; nuclear physicist Professor Richard Milner and Dr. Garrett O’Connor, President of the Betty Ford Institute.
Honorary degrees are awarded by the university to individuals [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center Family Program Changes Lives</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured/betty-ford-center-family-program-changes-lives.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured/betty-ford-center-family-program-changes-lives.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Program]]></category>
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As a key element of the Betty Ford Center roster of services, the weekly Family Program has helped thousands of people over the past 28 years.
A recent attendee of the program said:  “This was a life-changing program for me.  I came expecting to hear about the disease and thought I would only deal with issues [...]


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		<title>Dr. Thomas McLellan Elected to Betty Ford Center Board of Directors</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured/dr-thomas-mclellan-elected-to-betty-ford-center-board-of-directors.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A. Thomas McLellan, PhD, widely recognized as the world’s leading drug treatment researcher, has been elected by unanimous vote to the Board of Directors of the Betty Ford Center, the non-profit addiction treatment hospital located in Rancho Mirage, California.
 The announcement of his election was made by Board chair Dr. Mary Pattiz and the Center’s Chief [...]


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		<title>Neurocognitive enhancement for the treatment of chronic pain</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/treatment/neurocognitive-enhancement-for-the-treatment-of-chronic-pain.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FASCIA CONGRESS ABSTRACT
Peter Przekop, DO, PhD a,b,*, Allison Przekop, DO b, Mark G. Haviland, PhD a, Matt L. Riggs, PhD c
a - Department of Psychiatry, Loma Linda University Medical School, 11374 Mountain View Avenue, Loma Linda, California 92354, United States
b - Department of Pediatrics, Loma Linda University Medical School, Coleman Pavilion, Room A1109 Loma Linda, [...]


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		<title>Nick News Focuses on Kids of Alcoholics</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/nick-news-focuses-on-kids-of-alcoholics.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Linda Ellerbee]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[           The Nick News with Linda Ellerbee special, “Under the Influence: Kids of Alcoholics,” premieres Sunday, Nov. 14, from 9:00 to 9:30 p.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon.   
           Jerry Moe, National Director, Betty Ford Children’s Program, acknowledges it’s difficult for kids growing up in homes where there’s alcoholism because they never know what’s going to happen next. But he [...]


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		<title>How Can You Scientifically Say Alcoholism Is A Disease?</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured/how-can-you-scientifically-say-alcoholism-is-a-disease.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Question:  On what scientific evidence do you base your statement that alcoholism is a disease?  As a practicing physician, I have always thought persons who drank to excess did so because they wanted to and yet, I am trying to keep an open mind that there may be more to it than that.
Answer:  Believe me, [...]


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		<title>Chronic Pain</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/chronic-pain.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Przekop D.O.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Methods/Techniques]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chronic pain]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am your pain
You have let me in and,
I am here to stay
I will consume you
And your energy
And your thoughts
I will control your life
I will not leave
I will not allow you to be yourself
I will control your emotions
I will steal your sleep
I will take you from your family
I will steal you from your friends
At times [...]


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		<title>Why does the disease of alcoholism progress?</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured/why-does-the-disease-of-alcoholism-progress.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question: What do they mean when after being sober for years, if you start drinking again, your drinking will take off as though you haven’t been dry at all? In fact some say that it is worse, like if you were drinking all those dry years too. I am not planning to do this but [...]


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		<title>Family Recovery Means Children Too!</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/education/family-recovery-means-children-too.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Moe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[addicted families]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Moe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[            On a cold, dreary February evening in 1978, one child showed up for the program’s first session.   Through 1990, the Sequoia Hospital Children’s Place program served over ten thousand children in groups, weekend retreats and summer camps, all designed to help children initiate and deepen their healing.  The Children’s Place, still operating to this [...]


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		<title>Can Exercise Help People Stay Clean and Sober?</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/treatment/can-exercise-help-people-stay-clean-and-sober.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[             The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has given a $15.7 million award to the UT Southwestern Medical Center to explore the possibility of consistent exercise helping people abstain from stimulant abuse.
            The Stimulant Reduction Intervention using Dosed Exercise (STRIDE), study will be the largest NIDA-funded trial on the issue to date. More than [...]


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		<title>Young Adult Track Now Includes Female Patients</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[            The Betty Ford Center Young Adult Track (YAT) is designed to meet the unique treatment needs of young female and male adults ages 18-25, who are financially dependent upon their parents or other family members.  The minimum length of stay is 30 days and the recommended length of stay is 90 – 120 days.
            [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center Turns 28</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, October 4, the Betty Ford Center celebrated 28 years of offering quality, effective treatment to women, men, and their loved ones affected by alcoholism and other drug addiction.
Over 95,000 have begun their journey of recovery at the Betty Ford Center.
To celebrate this milestone, the Center recently announced an intensive Pain Management Track is [...]


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		<title>Rising Above the Reality of Relapse</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many who struggle with the disease of addiction will relapse. This reality is both frightening and frustrating for family members as well as for those who relapse.
“These days, it is rare that we admit patients who haven’t been to treatment before, unless they’re entering our Young Adult Track,” says Admissions Director Courtney McShay.
According to a [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center Now Offers Pain Management Track</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/programs/betty-ford-center-now-offers-pain-management-track.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 21:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Schwarzlose, CEO of the Betty Ford Center, recently announced that a newly developed pain management track is now included in the list of services provided by the facility.
“We saw a need to help more patients and found a physician who is highly regarded in this field,” said Mr. Schwarzlose.
Dr. Peter Przekop, D.O., Ph.D., designed [...]


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		<title>Dr. Johanna O&#8217;Flaherty Addresses Binge Drinking</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/addiction/dr-johanna-oflaherty-addresses-binge-drinking.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Johanna O&#8217;Flaherty, Ph.D., Vice President of Treatment Services, recently appeared on the Coachella Valley CBS affiliate to address the topic of binge drinking.




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		<title>Choose your Attitude by Choosing Gratitude</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/choose-your-attitude-by-choosing-gratitude.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Burgdorf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Burgdorf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gratitude]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ The theme of gratitude is familiar to those of us in 12-Step recovery programs.  I imagine that all of us – at one time or another – have heard from a tough sponsor, “It’s time for you to write out a gratitude list.” The symptoms for which this is the treatment are: self-pity, whining, grousing, [...]


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		<title>Alcohol Abuse versus Alcohol Dependence</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/addiction/alcohol-abuse-versus-alcohol-dependence.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alcohol]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q: What is the difference between alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence?
A: Alcohol abuse is described as any &#8220;harmful use&#8221; of alcohol. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV describes alcohol abusers as those who drink despite recurrent social, interpersonal, and legal problems as a result of alcohol use. Harmful use implies alcohol use [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center Teams with Southworth Associates to Provide Monitoring Program</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/treatment/betty-ford-center-teams-with-southworth-associates-to-provide-monitoring-program.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[             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 [...]


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		<title>$400,000 Grant Received for Science-Based Evaluation</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/programs/400000-grant-received-for-science-based-evaluation.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Boop</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Programs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Betty Ford Children's Program]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]


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		<title>Young Adult Men Receive Specialized Treatment at Betty Ford Center</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/treatment/young-adult-men-receive-specialized-treatment-at-betty-ford-center.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its formal name is the Young Adult Track. In Betty Ford Center-speak it&#8217;s referred to by its acronym, &#8220;YAT.&#8221;
Whatever it&#8217;s called, why does California&#8217;s licensed addiction hospital offer specialized treatment for young men, ages 18 to 25?
According to Lead Counselor Patrick Smith, there are three reasons.
&#8220;First,&#8221; he says, &#8220;these young men inevitably are not your [...]


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		<title>19 Most Frequently Asked Addiction Treatment Questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alcoholism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcoholism cure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Meet Dr. West
1.  Is there a cure for alcoholism?
2.  Can some alcoholics and drug addicts control their disease by sheer will power?
3.  Can I get a person to stop drinking who refuses to get help?
4.  Can you shame an alcoholic into sobriety?
5.  Is the alcoholic only hurting themselves or is the impact greater than that?
6. [...]


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		<title>12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[12 Steps]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to [...]


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		<title>Who&#8217;s There? Alcoholics Are Missing &#8220;Face Values&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/whos-there-alcoholics-are-missing-face-values.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting along with other people is a critical ingredient for a full and happy life. Yet building and maintaining healthy relationships requires the ability to correctly read and express emotional facial expressions (EFE), an ability that alcohol-dependent individuals tend to lack. It has been observed that alcoholic subjects overestimate the intensity of EFE, misinterpret EFE, [...]


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		<title>Rundown Neighborhoods Contribute to Heavy Drinking</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/rundown-neighborhoods-contribute-to-heavy-drinking.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past decade has produced research on relationships between neighborhood characteristics and health but few studies have specifically looked at how a neighborhood may play a role in shaping alcohol use and misuse. This study looked at the impact of the “urban built” environment – a reference to not only all the buildings of a [...]


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		<title>Like It or Not, Spirituality Actually Aids Recovery!</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/like-it-or-not-spirituality-actually-aids-recovery.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surveys indicate that 8% of American drinkers eventually become alcohol-dependent. Treatment providers endeavor to match those who seek treatment with the program most appropriate for their needs. There are two basic models of treatment programs: one is spiritually based such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), and the other is a more clinical model without a spiritual [...]


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		<title>Tag Your Own Damn Moose!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note:  Content in this article may be dated and include staffing and program information that is no longer current.
Michael S. Neatherton
President, Betty Ford Recovery Hospital 
When I agreed to write this article, it seemed like a good idea…at the time. As the deadline grew closer and ‘NAATP Article’ kept surfacing on my task list, it [...]


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		<title>&#8216;Epitome of courage&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Darrell Smith
The Desert Sun
June 7, 2005
RANCHO MIRAGE &#8211; She battled personal trials on the most public of stages, then used her experiences and her energy to help others overcome their struggles.
And on Monday, her children by her side and Vice President Dick Cheney looking on, Betty Ford received the 2005 Gerald R. Ford Medal [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford earns namesake medal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Chris Bagley
The Desert Sun
June 1, 2005
RANCHO MIRAGE &#8211; Former First Lady Betty Ford will receive this year’s Gerald R. Ford Medal for Distinguished Public Service, the former president&#8217;s foundation said Tuesday morning. In a ceremony for Gerald and Betty Ford and their family, the medal will be presented by the former president Monday during [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford passes torch to daughter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ferdie De Vega
The Desert Sun
January 7, 2005
RANCHO MIRAGE &#8211; Former first lady Betty Ford will hand over the reins of the Betty Ford Center to daughter Susan Ford Bales, but will remain on the board of directors of the world-renowned substance abuse treatment hospital.
In addition, Ford will retain the title “life chairman,” center officials [...]


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		<title>Five first ladies gather at gala &#8211; Celebration marks Betty Ford Center’s 20th year</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Francesca Donlan
The Desert Sun
January 18, 2003
INDIAN WELLS &#8211; History took the stage Friday evening.
In a rare appearance, former first ladies Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. stood side by side at the Hyatt Grand Champions Resort to honor Betty Ford.
&#8220;It’s not often that we have the [...]


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		<title>Congratulations, Betty Ford Center &#8211; Celebrating 20 years of helping people battle drug, alcohol abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our voice
The Desert Sun
October 25, 2002
Happy 20th anniversary, Betty Ford Center. This is a milestone worth celebrating.
There is so much of which to be proud.
The Betty Ford Center has for decades been recognized as a world leader in the treatment of substance abuse. Today is no exception.
Its international status has come as much from its [...]


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		<title>The house that Betty built &#8211; Giving back is Betty Ford’s philosophy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Francesca Donlan
The Desert Sun
October 20, 2002
Complete strangers tell Betty Ford she saved their lives.
Following her own battle with breast cancer and drug dependence in the 1970s, the former first lady spoke candidly about her experiences. And for the first time, breast cancer, drug addiction and alcoholism became a major part of the American discourse.
In [...]


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		<title>Ford’s public battle molds personal cause &#8211; Treated while still the first lady, Betty Ford found a way to help others like her</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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By Francesca Donlan
The Desert Sun
October 18, 2002
In 1978, one year after leaving the White House, former first lady Betty Ford checked herself into a treatment facility for drug and alcohol addiction.
She had grown dependent on &#8220;the sleeping [...]


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		<title>The Disease of Addiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Harry Haroutunian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 group of symptoms seen in each and every alcoholic and addict known to have the disease of dependence:  loss of control, craving, and persistent use despite adverse [...]


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		<title>Addictive Substances Effects and Withdrawal Symptoms</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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Addictive Substance
Affects to Self and Family
Effects to Body 
Withdrawal Symptoms
Detox Protocol


Alcohol


Slows down  thoughts, reflexes and actions
Altered perception
Mood-altering
Disinhibiting




Cardiovascular
Liver and kidney disease
Inflammatory to the GI tract
Neuropathy
Psychological disorders




Seizures
Anxiety or depression
Hallucinations, delirium
Tremors
Heart attacks, strokes
Can be life-threatening




Frequent assessment
Valium/Ativan, ancillary meds




Benzodiaepine:Ambien/Ambien CR, Xanax, Librium, Serax, Dalmane, Restoril, Buspar, Sonata, Lunesta, Fioricet, Soma, Zolpidem, Chlordiazepate, Chlordiazepoxide, Klonopin, Tranxene, Valium, Ativan, Doral, Halcion, [...]


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		<title>Women: Overcoming Barriers to Treatment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8212; and the entire [...]


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		<title>Leadership Continuity Is Recognized at Betty Ford Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note:  Content in this article may be dated and include staffing and program information that is no longer current.
When the Betty Ford Center celebrated its 25th anniversary last fall, the spotlight – deservedly – was on the 80,000 women, men and children who have received treatment at the Center since its doors opened October 4, [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Institute Names CEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Garrett O’Connor has been named the first Chief Executive Officer of the Betty Ford Institute. Dr. O’Connor served for several years as Chief Psychiatrist of the Betty Ford Center. He also founded and guided the Clinical Diagnostic Evaluation (CDE) Program at the Center.
In announcing the establishment of the Betty Ford Institute, former First Lady [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center Teams With First Nation Bands</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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They’ve been called “The Odd Couple of Treatment.” The world-famous Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California, and the Esketemc First Nation community in remote Alkali Lake, British Columbia. How did the unlikely alliance – between Betty [...]


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		<title>90-Day Treatment Stay the New &#8220;Gold Standard&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note:  Content in this article may be dated and include staffing and program information that is no longer current.
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 [...]


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		<title>90-Day Treatment Program Launched At Betty Ford Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last summer the Betty Ford Center launched a new treatment program for persons addicted to alcohol and/or other drugs, which lasts for three months.
The growth of the 90-Day Program has been dramatic. At its inception, there were five patient participants; in January, 2007, 30 patients are in the program.
While the Center has for several years offered [...]


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		<title>We&#8217;ve Lost a Friend</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just hours after we learned that President Gerald Ford had died, patients and staff gathered in the Firestone Auditorium on the Betty Ford Center campus, and I had the honor to share some reflections on a person all of us both respected and loved.
Gerald Ford was, of course, president during tumultuous times. The Vietnam War. Terrible inflation. The [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center Celebrates 25th Anniversary This Fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 16:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John T. Schwarzlose,
CEO &#38; President
The usual gift commemorating a 25th anniversary is something – anything – silver. In the case of the 25th anniversary of the Betty Ford Center, the gift that comes to mind is a massive quilt representing the 80,000 men, women and their loved ones who have begun a journey of [...]


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		<title>Dr. Johanna O&#8217;Flaherty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 16:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vice President, Treatment Services, Betty Ford Center
Dr. Johanna O’Flaherty was recently appointed Vice President, Treatment Services, at the Betty Ford Center. Dr. O’Flaherty actually began her association with the Center nearly 20 years ago when she first referred airline employees who needed treatment for their alcoholism/drug addiction to Betty Ford. The Ireland-born Dr. O’Flaherty developed [...]


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		<title>BFC Childrens Program Expands in Colorado</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/programs/bfc-childrens-program-expands-in-colorado.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Institute</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/betty-ford-institute.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Recovery” means many things to many people.
So many things to so many people, that the meaning of this word/concept/lifestyle has taken on a mysterious or even “fringe” quality that has prevented popular understanding and acceptance.
The challenge of the inaugural Betty Ford Institute Consensus Conference was to try to develop a definition of “recovery” that would have utility [...]


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		<title>BFC Pioneer Dr. James West, 93, Stays the Course</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/bfc-pioneer-dr-james-west-93-stays-the-course.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
He’s a renowned surgeon, one of the two doctors who performed the world’s first human organ transplant (a kidney). He later completed advanced studies in psychiatry and taught at the University  of Chicago. He became physician director of the Betty  Ford Center when it opened in October, 1982, and served as Medical Director [...]


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		<title>Superior Customer Service Supports Excellent Treatment At Betty Ford Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note:  Content in this article may be dated and include staffing and program information that is no longer current.
The Betty Ford Center is continually identifying ways to improve addiction treatment.
One essential aspect of addiction treatment is creating an atmosphere where patients feel safe and cared for while balancing the need for a structured program with [...]


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		<title>Awareness Hour Anniversary</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leftover coffee and donuts.
That’s really what sparked the creation of a treasured institution that’s been alive and well in California’s Coachella Valley (home to the Betty Ford Center) for coming up on three decades.
Dr. Joe Cruse, who at the time headed the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, noticed that every Saturday at the conclusion [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Institute Formed; Convenes Consensus Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former First Lady Betty Ford, co-founder of the Betty Ford Center, announced this Fall the establishment of the Betty Ford Institute. It is operating independent of the non-profit licensed addiction treatment hospital located in Rancho Mirage, California.
&#8220;As we approach our 25th anniversary,” says Mrs. Ford, “we feel it is an appropriate time to take this [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center Collaborates With Partners On Science, Research Projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Betty Ford Center is first and foremost a licensed addiction treatment hospital for persons addicted to alcohol and/or other drugs.
But the Center is also working with scientists and addiction researchers who are conceptualizing and seeking to refine treatment protocols for addiction. The intersection of science, research and the Betty Ford Center occurs on many [...]


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		<title>&#8220;Poppycock!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/poppycock.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Contrary to the orthodoxy, drug addiction is a matter of morals.&#8221;
That quote appeared on the op-ed page of the influential Wall Street Journal – not 50 years ago, not five years ago. It appeared May 25, 2006.
Like a bad dream that you just can’t shake, this notion of alcohol/drug addiction as a character weakness – [...]


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		<title>Focused Continuing Care: One-Year, Extended Care at Betty Ford Center</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/treatment/focused-continuing-care-one-year-extended-care-at-betty-ford-center.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Focused Continuing Care at the Betty Ford Center began as a pilot program in 1997. Every seventh patient was invited to participate. Upon discharge from formal treatment, individuals were contacted by telephone on a regular basis by a counselor, with whom they had met prior to completing primary care.
Based on extremely positive early results, this [...]


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		<title>Addiction Beyond Borders</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Addiction to alcohol and other drugs is, of course, not limited to the United States, or to North America. It’s a disease that does not respect national boundaries. It’s everywhere.
At the Betty Ford Center, we’ve served patients and their families from more than 50 countries world-wide since we opened our doors in 1982.
The International Society [...]


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		<title>Clinical Diagnostic Evaluation Program Scores Major Gains</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Clinical Diagnostic Evaluation (CDE) program began four years ago at the Rancho Mirage, California-based Betty Ford Center as a service for health professionals.
Essentially, persons who enter the program undergo an intensive three-day-long physical and psychological examination which determines whether or not they are addicted to alcohol and/or other drugs and, if so, what type [...]


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		<title>Passing of the Torch</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last May, Betty Ford, co-founder and chairman of the Betty Ford Center, announced that she planned to “pass the chairmanship torch” to her daughter, Susan Ford Bales, in January, 2005. That historic moment occurred at a Betty Ford Center Board of Directors meeting on January 25, 2005. Does Mrs. Ford plan to fade quietly into [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center Takes in Hurricane Victims for Treatment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 16:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note:  Content in this article may be dated and include staffing and program information that is no longer current.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which struck the Gulf Coast with devastating fury in early September, the Betty Ford Center has taken in six persons from the area whose treatment for alcohol/drug addiction was interrupted by [...]


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		<title>Obesity Outweighs Addiction Concern</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 16:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quick. What now is America’s #1 health priority, according to the polls?
Cancer? Guess again.
Heart disease? Guess again.
Alcohol/drug addiction? Hah.
Obesity is now America’s #1 health concern.
Given that 31 percent of U.S. adults are obese (30 or more pounds over a healthy weight) – the numbers are up from 23 percent in the late 1980s and 15 [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center Works With Native Canadians</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shortly after Patrick Haggerson became a counselor at the Betty Ford Center in 1998, he made a phone call to British Columbia’s Alkali Lake Indian Band, to get information about a video he wanted to order, called “The Honor of All: The Alkali Story.” The hour-long documentary told how that community of native peoples achieved [...]


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		<title>Treatment: Why Bother?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of us who work in the treatment field, the very question is offensive. For others, though, it’s a question they often struggle with.
For example, we’ve long known that fewer than 30 percent of primary care physicians screen their patients for health problems related to their use of alcohol and/or other drugs. And this [...]


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		<title>Underage Drinkers Hypocrisy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The facts are deadly. Underage drinkers, joined by adults who regularly drink excessive amounts of alcohol, account for half of all the alcohol consumed in this country. That devastating finding is supported by many research studies, including a recent one in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Another alarming statistic is that nearly 20 percent [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center Works with Drug Endangered Children Organization</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a Thursday morning in mid-May, Jenny Gomez of the Betty Ford Center Children’s Program in Dallas went to work especially early, at 4:30 a.m.
Jenny joined 80 law enforcement officers from four different agencies as they gathered for a briefing prior to serving arrest warrants on 40 individuals suspected of operating methamphetamine labs.
The 80 officers [...]


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		<title>BFC Children&#8217;s Program Evaluated in First-Ever Scientific Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2004 16:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Results have been released of the first-ever scientific examination of prevention/education programs in the U.S. aimed at children who live in a family environment in which the disease of addiction to alcohol and/or other drugs is present.
The study surveyed 149 young people, age seven to 13, who participated in the Betty Ford Center Children’s Program [...]


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		<title>Larry and Betty: A Marvelous Media Marriage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2004 16:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 19, 2003, Betty Ford and I appeared on Larry King Live on CNN. (The show was repeated twice during the holidays.) This is the fourth time over the past six years that we have been guests.
We agree to appear on Larry King Live because it is our hope that by doing so we [...]


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		<title>Stress Management Activities Help Patients at Betty Ford Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2004 16:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]


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		<title>It’s All About Fairness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2004 16:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to health insurance, persons with the disease of addiction to alcohol and/or other drugs are often – make that usually – treated as second-class citizens in this country. Talk about a bad news/bad news scenario. Persons with the disease of addiction either discover that their health insurance policy simply doesn’t cover their [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center Tests Back Use of Buprenorphine for Detox</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2004 16:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In November, 2003, clinicians at the Betty Ford Center began using buprenorphine – a new prescription drug that relieves symptoms of opiate withdrawal like agitation, nausea and insomnia – for detoxification of incoming patients addicted to heroin or painkillers, such as Oxycontin and Vicodin.
According to Dr. Scott Davis, the Center’s Addiction Medicine Physician, results have [...]


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		<title>The Political Season is Upon Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2004 16:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost every public opinion poll indicates that Americans believe alcohol and drug use and abuse are critical problems in their communities – especially when the use and abuse involves young people.
Yet it will be surprising if either George W. Bush or John Kerry actively addresses the issue of addiction to alcohol and/or other drugs. The [...]


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		<title>U.S. Representative Jim Ramstad Announces New Congressional Recovery Caucus in Betty Ford Center Address</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2004 16:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an address to the Betty Ford Center Chairman’s Council, U.S. Rep. Jim Ramstad announced the formation of a new Congressional caucus to promote awareness of chemical addiction issues and increase support for increased access to treatment.
The bipartisan Addiction, Treatment and Recovery Caucus will, said Ramstad, “educate lawmakers on the problems of addiction and the [...]


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		<title>One Step Forward, One Step Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2004 16:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good news … and other news … in the ongoing struggle to definitively define addiction to alcohol and/or other drugs as a disease, a disease that responds well to comprehensive professional treatment.
In March, the Geneva-based World Health Organization issued an authoritative report – its first ever – citing an explosion of advances in neuroscience to [...]


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		<title>The Betty Ford Center Appoints Garrett O’Connor Medical Director of Professional Recovery Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2003 16:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Garrett O’Connor has been appointed Medical Director of the Professional Recovery Program at the Betty Ford Center, the nation’s leading addiction treatment hospital.
The announcement was made in Rancho Mirage, CA., by John Schwarzlose, the Center’s president and CEO.
Garrett O’Connor, M.D. is certified in General and Addiction Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and [...]


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		<title>New Betty Ford Center Book Salutes Women in Recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2003 16:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This November, a new book called Healing and Hope: Six Women from the Betty Ford Center Share Their Powerful Journeys of Addiction and Recovery will be published by Putnam’s and will be available everywhere in the U.S. and Canada.
Healing and Hope puts a face – six faces, actually – on the disease of addiction. It provides a [...]


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		<title>Women’s Addiction Conferences to Explore Relationships and Recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2003 16:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women’s Addiction Conferences will be convened in Baltimore and San Diego in September, 2003. The nation’s leading non-profit treatment providers, Rancho Mirage, California-based Betty Ford Center, Wernersville, Pennsylvania-based Caron Foundation and Father Martin’s Ashley of Havre DeGrace, Maryland, are the presenting organizations.
Together, the September 5-6 conference at the Wyndham Baltimore Inner Harbor and the September [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center Old-Fashioned? Yessir!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2003 16:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, while on the road, a fellow professional in the addiction/treatment field approached me and said he had a question. “Is the Betty Ford Center old-fashioned?” he wondered.
For a nanosecond, I was a little taken aback. But then the answer came quickly, “I certainly hope so!”
If being “old-fashioned” means that the customer (ie, patient) [...]


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