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		<title>Jerry Moe to Speak at NYC Women&#8217;s Symposium</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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“Through a Child’s Eyes” is the topic of a presentation that will be given by Jerry Moe, during the Women’s Symposium in New York City June 26.
Mr. Moe is Vice President, National Director of Children&#8217;s Programs for the Betty Ford Center. An Advisory Board Member of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics, he is [...]


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		<title>&#8220;Bringing Out the Best When Women are at Their Worst&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/bringing-out-the-best-when-women-are-at-their-worst.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 17:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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 &#8221;Bringing Out the Best When Women Are at Their Worst—Engaging Mothers in Treatment” will be Dr. Patricia O’Gorman’s topic at the Betty Ford Center Women’s Symposium in New York City on June 26.
 Patricia O’Gorman, Ph.D, is a psychologist in private practice noted for her work on women, trauma, children of alcoholics, and substance abuse. She [...]


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		<title>Prescription Drug Use Epidemic to be addressed by Dr. Harry Haroutunian</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/media/prescription-drug-use-epidemic-to-be-addressed-by-dr-harry-haroutunian.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 15:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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Dr. Harry Haroutunian, Physician Director of the Betty Ford Center Licensed Professional Program, will speak on the topic “Prescription Drug Use Epidemic” May 21, 2013 in Torrance, CA as part of the Frontiers in Addiction Treatment Series presented by the Thelma McMillen Center and Betty Ford Center.
 Dr. Haroutunian, known by his patients as &#8216;Dr. Harry,&#8217; [...]


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		<title>Alumnus Finds Security and Confidence in Young Adult Track</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 16:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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“My mom never slept a full night – she was either looking out the window or sitting on the couch, waiting for me to come home.  In a way, I think she was relieved when I was in rehab or jail because at least she knew where I was.”
Jon D. is an alumnus of the [...]


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		<title>Texas Children&#8217;s Program News &#8211; Summer 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/texas-childrens-program-news-summer-2013.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/texas-childrens-program-news-summer-2013.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 26th, Sonny McCutcheon, LCDC, LAC, Board Registered Interventionist II and John Patton, LMSW facilitated the training “Structured Family Intervention: The Power of Love.” Pulling from years of experience, they helped mental health professionals grasp a further understanding of the intervention process as well as what steps to take whenever a family is in [...]


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		<title>California Children&#8217;s Program News &#8211; Summer 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/california-childrens-program-news-summer-2013.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/california-childrens-program-news-summer-2013.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our mission in the Children’s Program is to help children discover and practice the process of recovery from the family disease of alcoholism and/or other drug addiction. Every day, the staff at Betty Ford Center helps to make this statement a reality by providing innovative services for affected children and their families. Collaboration with other [...]


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		<title>A Meal to not Remember</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/a-meal-to-not-remember.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/a-meal-to-not-remember.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Moe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Betty Ford Children’s Program serves such a richly diverse group of families hurt by alcoholism and other drug addiction. Many of our courageous children live in homes where that cunning, powerful, and baffling disease is still active. Others come from families where their loved one is currently in treatment somewhere in the United States. [...]


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		<title>Helping Children Through Loss and Grief</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/helping-children-through-grief-and-loss.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/helping-children-through-grief-and-loss.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindsey Chadwick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas, an 8-year-old boy with a big heart and a wonderful smile, lost his father to addiction last year. He is not the first child we have worked with to experience grief and trauma, and in families with a history of addiction, he won’t be the last. Some children will suffer the unfortunate and untimely [...]


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		<title>Kids Feel It, Too:  Decreasing Shame and Stigma</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/kids-feel-it-too-decreasing-shame-and-stigma.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peggy McGillicuddy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Children’s Program provides healing, hope and support to the youngest family members impacted by addiction. Other treatment centers have now begun to offer these services. Though greatly needed, it can be a challenge to fill groups for one simple reason: the guilt and shame people feel about their disease. Kids feel it, too.
Think about [...]


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		<title>Colorado Children&#8217;s Program News &#8211; Summer 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/colorado-childrens-program-news-summer-2013.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Colorado Children’s Program will host a Parenting in Recovery Workshop on Saturday, May 11th at our office from 8:30-11 am. It is free of charge and specially designed for the caregivers of children who have participated in the program.
Upcoming Group Dates
May 16th-19th Denver
June 13th-16th Colorado Springs
June 20th-23rd Denver
July 11th-14th Denver
July 18th-21st Colorado Springs



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		<title>Betty Ford Center Nurse to be honored at Chamber of Commerce Event</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/media/betty-ford-center-nurse-to-be-honored-at-chamber-of-commerce-event.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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Donna Palmer has been chosen to represent the Betty Ford Center at the Rancho Mirage Chamber of Commerce Nursing Awards of Excellence event in late April.
The luncheon honors the top nurses from the four Coachella Valley hospitals as well as to a Nursing Specialty and an outstanding student nurse in the College of the Desert [...]


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		<title>John Pustaver to Present at Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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John Pustaver, Program Director of the Betty Ford Center Clinical Diagnostic Evaluation (CDE) Program, will participate in the National Burn Association Annual Conference in Palm Springs April 23-25.
The American Burn Association and its members dedicate their efforts and resources to promoting and supporting burn-related research, education, care, rehabilitation, and prevention.  Members include physicians, nurses, occupational [...]


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		<title>Women&#8217;s Symposium Set for New York City in June</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/womens-symposium-set-for-new-york-city-in-june.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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The Betty Ford Center Women’s Symposium “It’s a Family Affair” is scheduled June 26, 2013 on the Lincoln Center Campus of Fordham University in New York City.
“We are honored to bring the Women’s Symposium to New York City,” said Michela Sands, the Center’s Corporate Director of Business Development/Admissions. “We’ve long had a strong connection with [...]


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		<title>Dr. James Golden to Direct New Betty Ford Center Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/dr-james-golden-to-direct-new-betty-ford-center-addiction-medicine-fellowship-program.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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The American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM) Foundation today announced the accreditation of eight addiction medicine fellowship programs, including one at the Betty Ford Center.  The Center will welcome its first Addiction Medicine Fellow later this year.
Dr. James Golden, Physician Director, Inpatient Services at Betty Ford Center, will be Director of the Program.
According to Dr. [...]


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		<title>Awareness Helps Erase Negative Stigma</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/2605.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April marks the 27th annual NCADD (National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc.) Alcohol Awareness Month.  This infographic was created to spread awareness and understanding about alcoholism in order to erase the negative stigma attached to the disease, which prevents so many individuals from seeking help. 




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		<title>April is Alcohol Awareness Month</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/media/april-is-alcohol-awareness-month.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 06:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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The Betty Ford Center recognizes April as NCADD (National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc.) Alcohol Awareness Month, an opportunity to increase public awareness and understanding, reduce stigma and encourage local communities to focus on alcoholism and alcohol-related issues.
The month-long event was conceived in 1987, and this year’s theme – “Help for Today, Hope [...]


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		<title>Addiction is not a Spectator Sport; Eventually the Whole Family Gets to Play</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/addiction-is-not-a-spectator-sport-eventually-the-whole-family-gets-to-play.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Husband to alcoholic wife:  “You’re the one with the drinking problem, I don’t need help.”
Father to mother:  “The kids don’t have any idea that I drink too much.”
Child to therapist:  “I think my mommy drinks too much because I can’t make her happy.”
These three perspectives cut to the heart of why it is important to [...]


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		<title>Women&#8217;s Symposium Draws Enthusiastic Audience</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/womens-symposium-draws-enthusiastic-audience.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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The first Women’s Symposium of 2013 drew over 200 addiction professionals to the UCLA campus Thursday, March 21.
This year, a second Women’s Symposium will be held at Fordham University in New York City on June 26.
The day at UCLA began with a keynote address by Ali MacGraw, who shared candidly about her own recovery before [...]


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		<title>Inaugural &#8216;Beamer Awards&#8217; Focuses Attention on Betty Ford Center Children&#8217;s Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over $450,000 was raised at the Betty Ford Center Foundation’s first Beamer Awards, held March 8 at the Annenberg Theater in Palm Springs. The event was created to promote and generate funds to help underwrite the Betty Ford Center Children&#8217;s Program.
John Boop, President of the Foundation, said that “Through the attention drawn to Beamer, the [...]


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		<title>Limited Space Available for Los Angeles Women&#8217;s Symposium</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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There are still slots open for the Betty Ford Center Women’s Symposium scheduled Thursday, March 21, at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Registration is $165 for the event, which begins with a continental breakfast and concludes with the final presentation of the day at 4:00 pm.
The Women’s Symposium is an event that strengthens knowledge, [...]


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		<title>Annual Awareness Hour Program Begins in January 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:11:24 +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 37th 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 12, 2013.
This year&#8217;s season is dedicated to [...]


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		<title>Detoxification Process Monitored Carefully</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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The solution can become more of a problem in the case of buprenorphine hydrochloride, a drug used to reduce the symptoms of opiate dependence and assist in opiate detoxification.
At the Betty Ford Center, buprenorphine is sometimes used to assist in detoxification from opiates. 
“Buprenorphine may be incorporated in our opiate detox protocol, but not always,” said [...]


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		<title>John Schwarzlose to Receive Leonard Firestone Award</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/john-schwarzlose-to-receive-leonard-firestone-award.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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John Schwarzlose, President and CEO of the Betty Ford Center, will receive the Leonard K. Firestone Award during the ABC Recovery Center’s 50th anniversary celebration in Indio March 15, 2013.
The award is named after Leonard K. Firestone, co-founder of the Betty Ford Center and a close friend of both President and Mrs. Ford.  
Leonard Firestone took [...]


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		<title>Jerry Moe to be Honored with Emerald Spirit Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
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Jerry Moe, Vice President and National Director of the Betty Ford Center Children’s Program, will be given the second annual Emerald Spirit Award in New York City March 16 as part of Sober St. Patrick’s Day® .
The day was established in 2012 as a family-friendly, fresh alternative for those who want to celebrate the holiday [...]


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		<title>Training Opportunity Available at Betty Ford Center</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/education/jeff-and-debra-jay-offer-clinical-training.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Private Practice Training for Drug and Alcohol Professionals:  Getting Started in Private Practice&#8217; is the topic of a day-long training session scheduled Saturday, March 9, at the Betty Ford Center&#8217;s Gateway Office in Palm Desert, CA.
Pete Nielson, LAADC, CADC II will present the training, and 8 Continuing Education Hours will be awarded at the end [...]


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		<title>Dr. Kitty Harris to Speak at Betty Ford Center Women&#8217;s Symposium</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/media/drkittyharristospeakatbettyfordcenterwomenssymposium.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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“Woman Unbroken; Putting the Pieces Together through Recovery” will be Dr. Kitty Harris’ topic at the Betty Ford Center Women’s Symposium, scheduled March 21 at UCLA in Los Angeles.
 Dr. Harris is currently the Associate Dean of Outreach and Engagement in the College of Human Sciences and holds the George C. Miller Regent&#8217;s Professorship at Texas [...]


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		<title>Food Addiction to be Addressed at Women&#8217;s Symposium</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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Tennie McCarty, founder and CEO of Shades of Hope treatment center, is a featured speaker for the Betty Ford Center Women’s Symposium, scheduled March 21 at UCLA in Los Angeles.
Ms. McCarty entered the field of addiction treatment over 30 years ago and has dedicated her life to helping those with food and co-occurring addictions, as [...]


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		<title>Women&#8217;s Symposium will Feature Dr. Peter Levine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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Dr. Peter A. Levine is a featured speaker for the Betty Ford Center Women’s Symposium, scheduled March 21 at UCLA in Los Angeles.  His topic during the day-long event will be:  “In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness.”
Dr. Levine received his Ph.D. in medical biophysics from the University of California [...]


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		<title>&#8216;It Happens to Boys Too&#8217; Conference Features Jerry Moe</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/media/it-happens-to-boys-too-conference-features-jerry-moe.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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Jerry Moe, Vice President and National Director of the Betty Ford Center Children’s Programs, will be a featured speaker at the Fifth Annual ‘It Happens to Boys Too’ Conference March 1-2, 2013 at the Doral Desert Princess Hotel in Palm Springs, CA.
The conference is designed for therapists, social workers, nurses, physicians, recovery counselors, abuse survivors [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center Admits 100,000th Patient</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Betty Ford Center, the world-renowned addiction treatment hospital, admitted its 100,000th patient late last week.
The 100,000 figure represents the total number of patients admitted into the Center’s Inpatient, Residential Day Treatment (RDT), Intensive Outpatient and Family programs since the Center opened its doors October 4, 1982.
The announcement was made by the Chair of the Center’s [...]


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		<title>Jerry Moe Honored During Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
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Jerry Moe, Vice President and National Director of the Betty Ford Center Children’s Programs, received an unexpected accolade during the recent Evolution of Addiction Treatment conference in Los Angeles.
As the February 9 keynote speaker on the topic “Kids&#8217; Power: Healing for Children from Addicted Families,” Jerry was onstage when Conference Chair Allen Berger, Ph.D., surprised [...]


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		<title>Health Matters Conference Draws Strong Response</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/health-matters-conference-draws-strong-response.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 01:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The infographic below shows the impressive reach of the recent #HealthMatters2013 conference held in La Quinta, CA.
Betty Ford Center President and CEO John Schwarzlose moderated a panel on Mental Health and Addictions during the day-long event.
The vision of the Clinton Health Matters Initiative (CHMI) is to improve the health and well-being of all United States [...]


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		<title>Women&#8217;s Symposium Features Dr. Dan Siegel</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured/2409.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 08:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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Dr. Dan Siegel will be the keynote speaker at the Betty Ford Center Women’s Symposium at the University of California, Los Angeles on March 21.  “The Mindful Therapist: Presence, Attunement and Resonance in the Clinical Relationship” is the subject of his address at the event, which is held to provide innovative tools that help professionals [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center to Co-host Professional Development Summit</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/betty-ford-center-to-co-host-professional-development-summit.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Registration is now open for the Third Annual Professional Development Summit, hosted by Betty Ford Center and RecoveryView.com.
The event will be held Thursday, April 11, from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm at Annenberg Community Beach House in Santa Monica, CA.
Speakers and subjects for for this year&#8217;s event include:
Mark Schwartz, Sc.D. &#8211; &#8220;Intimacy and Intimacy Disorder:  [...]


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		<title>Comfortable Detox is Important</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The thought of detox from alcohol and drugs while in chemical dependency treatment can be daunting, but the process is handled with care at the Betty Ford Center.
As a licensed chemical dependency hospital, the Center has the capability of offering on-site detoxing for patients who need it.  The detox protocol is created and monitored [...]


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		<title>Registration Now Open for Symposium for Women</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/registration-now-open-for-womens-symposium.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Journey to Wholeness” is the theme of the Betty Ford Center Women’s Symposium scheduled Thursday, March 21, at the University of California at Los Angeles.  Registration and a continental breakfast begin at 7:00 am, and the final presentation of the day concludes at 4:00 pm.
The one-day event features leaders in the fields of addiction, behavioral [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center to Participate in Clinton Foundation Health Matters Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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“Clinton Health Matters is focused on increasing access to healthcare for all,” said John Schwarzlose, CEO and President of Betty Ford Center.  “During their National Healthcare Conference this week, there will be a focus on access, including the important topic of Addiction and Mental Health Treatment.  We look forward to contributing to this important dialogue.”
There [...]


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		<title>Galletta Award Goes to Jerry Moe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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Dr. Joseph L. Galletta Spirit of Recovery Award. He accepted the honor December 13, 2012 at the Hemet Valley Recovery Annual Luncheon at Spencer’s Restaurant in Palm Springs, CA.
Jerry, left, is pictured here with last year&#8217;s recipient of the award, Jerry McDonald.
Jerry is Vice President, National Director of Children&#8217;s Programs at the Betty Ford Center [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center Receives Major Gift to Fund Groundbreaking Medical Education Initiative</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/betty-ford-center-receives-major-gift-to-fund-groundbreaking-medical-education-initiative.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Betty Ford Center, the licensed addiction hospital co-founded 30 years ago by former First Lady Betty Ford, announced today the receipt of a generous grant that will enable it to significantly expand its efforts to educate the nation’s healthcare professionals – especially medical doctors – on the disease of addiction, the treatment process, and the [...]


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		<title>CEO Serves as Expert for Local Clinton Health Matters Initiative</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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John Schwarzlose, President and CEO of the Betty Ford Center, was recently invited to serve as a content expert for the ‘Clinton Health Matters Initiative Coachella Valley Blueprint’ development session.
The vision of the Clinton Health Matters Initiative (CHMI) is to improve the health and well-being of all people in the United States by activating individuals, [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center Celebrates 30th Anniversary</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The annual fall Betty Ford Center anniversary is a time for alumni to return to campus, revitalize recovery in the place where their new lives began and renew their bond with friends they made in treatment.
This year, over two thousand alumni returned to the campus the weekend of November 9-11 to celebrate the 30th anniversary [...]


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		<title>Jerry Moe Receives Third Annual &#8216;Spirit of Recovery&#8217; Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jerry Moe, MA, has been named the 2012 Joseph L. Galletta “Spirit of Recovery” Award winner. Jerry received multiple nominations citing his professionalism and dedication in working with children of alcoholic families.
Jerry is Vice President, National Director of Children’s Programs at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California; Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas and Denver, Colorado.
&#8220;Jerry [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center Selected as Expert by &#8216;WebMD Answers&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ WebMD Health Corp., the leading source of health information, announced the launch of WebMD Answers, where consumers can pose health questions that can be asked and answered within WebMD’s trusted environment. WebMD Answers’ Q&#38;As are contextually integrated throughout the WebMD experience as well as through WebMD Search, so that consumers can now access information from [...]


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		<title>“How Do I Make Him Stop?”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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Family members face a gamut of challenges before they finally reach the point where they’re ready to confront the alcoholic/addict in their midst.
Conventional wisdom says family and friends are powerless until the person in the grip of addiction admits to having a problem.  The pain of the disease becomes greater than the ability to withstand [...]


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		<title>30th Anniversary Keepsakes Now Available</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 20:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[30th anniversary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Betty Ford Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Aid Program]]></category>

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Alumni and friends of the Betty Ford Center now have the opportunity to acquire a memento created specifically to honor the 30th anniversary of the drug and alcohol treatment center.
All proceeds from sales of three wearable items will go to the Center’s Patient Scholarship Fund to help those who struggle to afford treatment.
The articles include [...]


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		<title>&#8216;Bath Salts&#8217; Present New Challenge in Addiction Treatment</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/bath-salts-presents-new-challenge-in-addiction-treatment.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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A legal high with an innocuous name is the latest drug bringing young people into addiction treatment.
“Even though they may be labeled ‘not for human consumption’, bath salts can be obtained without prescription or legal oversight,” said Dr. Peter Przekop, DO, Ph.D. of the Betty Ford Center.   “The people marketing the drug are gearing their [...]


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		<title>Alumni Generosity Benefits Those in Need</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/alumni-generosity-benefits-those-in-need.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 06:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Betty Ford Center alumni]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[donations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alumni of the Betty Ford Center are staunch supporters of the value of addiction treatment.  In fact, their belief is so strong they contributed more than three-quarters of a million dollars to support the Financial Assistance Fund in the last year.
“Over $840,000 was donated in the 2011-12 fiscal year, allowing us to help many people [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center Employees Rise to the Challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/betty-ford-center-employees-rise-to-the-challenge.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[30th anniversary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Betty Ford Center has commissioned sculptor J. Brett Grill to create a full-sized bronze bust of Betty Ford.  The piece will honor the Center’s 30th anniversary and be displayed in the Admissions lobby area following a dedication ceremony during the November event.
The Center’s staff has been invited to underwrite the sculpture, and CEO John [...]


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		<title>Colorado Local News</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/colorado-local-news-2.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plantingseeds]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This past July, the Betty Ford Colorado Children’s Program moved to a new location.  Our offices are now located in the Forum Building in southeast Aurora, directly across the street from the Doubletree Hotel where we hold programs each month. This building will not only bring a more comfortable and efficient working environment for staff, [...]


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		<title>California Local News</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/california-local-news-2.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plantingseeds]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Children’s staff at the Betty Ford Center care deeply about the wellbeing of the children in our community.  Establishing new connections with local agencies and maintaining those whom we have worked with for years is very important.  In an effort to provide deeper education about the family disease of addiction and specific knowledge of [...]


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		<title>Book Review:  The ACOA Trauma Syndrome: The Impact of Childhood Pain on Adult Relationships</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/book-review-the-acoa-trauma-syndrome-the-impact-of-childhood-pain-on-adult-relationships.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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Dr. Tian Dayton is a dynamic therapist, psychodramatist, and prolific author in the recovery field. Her fifteen books include ‘Emotional Sobriety’, ‘Trauma and Addiction’, ‘Heartwounds’, ‘Forgiving’, and ‘Moving On’. She is a highly sought-after speaker for conferences and training events.
Tian’s latest book is ‘The ACOA Trauma Syndrome: The Impact of Childhood Pain on Adult Relationships.’ [...]


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		<title>The Challenges and Benefits of Group Work with both Addicted and Non-Addicted Parents</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Devine</dc:creator>
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The program’s primary focus is to offer support and guidance to kids who love someone with an addiction to drugs or alcohol. In order to provide the most comprehensive care possible, it is important that caregivers are also equipped with tools for healthy parenting. In keeping with this effort, over the course of a family’s [...]


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		<title>It is About Having Fun!  Easing Into Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peggy McGillicuddy</dc:creator>
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I am always nervous, apprehensive and a little scared on the first morning of a program. No matter how many children I&#8217;ve worked with, or how many groups I&#8217;ve done, I still find myself wondering: Will things go okay? Will kids open up?  Will we meet expectations? Will they like me? I then take a [...]


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		<title>Dallas Local News</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/dallas-local-news.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five Star Kids has long partnered with several other organizations, including St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church in Plano and the Recovery Resource Council in Ft. Worth, to accommodate children and families who are located too far from our main offices in Irving. For many years, these organizations have allowed us to utilize their space and [...]


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		<title>What Are You Waiting For?</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/what-are-you-waiting-for.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Connor Clark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Featured Home]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[justification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[treatment cost]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At first, the reasons people provide for postponing inpatient treatment for addiction seem reasonable.
Women can’t leave their children just as summer vacation begins.  Men can’t leave work because there wouldn’t be coverage.  Young adults can’t leave school because they may jeopardize their futures.
They might go on to say that they’ve been to treatment before, and [...]


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		<title>Pet Therapy Offers Comfort at Betty Ford Center</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/video-treatment/pet-therapy-offers-comfort-at-betty-ford-center.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kerri Compton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[pet therapy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A trio of dogs have found their way into the hearts of patients – and staff – at the Betty Ford Center.
Golden Retriever Irish and Cavalier King Charles spaniels Kerry and Toby interact with patients – and staff – on several levels.  The two smaller dogs bring their intuition to group sessions, and Irish is [...]


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		<title>Patriots for Parity Field Hearing Set for September in Los Angeles</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/patriots-for-parity-field-hearing-set-for-september-in-los-angeles.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[equality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Betty Ford Center is one of the hosts of the ‘Patriots for Parity’ field hearing September 18 at 6:30 pm at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology at Los Angeles, 617 W. 7th St., Los Angeles, CA.
State and local representatives, providers and consumers will speak about parity implementation and enforcement during the field hearing.
Among those [...]


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		<title>Five Star Kids&#8217; Schedule Announced</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lance Hughes, manager of Betty Ford Center’s Five Star Kids, recently announced the upcoming schedule for the program.
“We believe in strong partnerships and work with numerous treatment programs, agencies and professional organizations to help create a network of support for children who love someone addicted to alcohol or other drugs,” said Lance.  “Children are usually [...]


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		<title>Addiction: Small Resources for Big Problem</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/addiction-small-resources-for-big-problem.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 22:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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The disease of addiction receives much less financial attention than other chronic diseases.



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		<title>Farewell to a Beloved Friend, Dr. James West</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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Dr. West, M.D., F.A.C.S., was the medical director of the Betty Ford Center from 1982 to 1989. He graduated from the Loyola University School of Medicine, and was a member of the surgical team that performed the first human kidney transplant in 1950 at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Chicago. Dr. West practiced surgery [...]


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		<title>“My Alcoholic Needs Help: What Shall I Do?”</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/my-alcoholic-needs-help-what-shall-i-do.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a loved one is in trouble because of alcohol or drug abuse, the instinct of family members is to do whatever is necessary to help.
However, that first instinct may not be the one that’s going to be effective.
Following a few simple, organizational steps can make this experience less challenging and hopefully produce a result [...]


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		<title>Remembering Betty Ford</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/remembering-betty-ford.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 10:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Schwarzlose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Betty Ford touched thousands of people’s lives in the most positive and empowering ways.  Her openness in discussing breast cancer and addictive disease made it more than okay for women and men to ask for help.  The Betty Ford Center honors her vision every day.  We keep her memory alive for every family seeking to [...]


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		<title>Staying Safe and Sober on the 4th of July</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/staying-safe-and-sober-on-the-4th-of-july.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 06:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Connor Clark</dc:creator>
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Holiday celebrations often carry a burden of expectations.  There are many ways your 4th of July holiday can be more comfortable, especially if you&#8217;re in early recovery.
I was in treatment at the Betty Ford Center during the 4th of July in 1984 and have fond memories of celebrating that holiday sober for the first time in many [...]


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		<title>Long-term Recovery Advocated by Drug Control Policy Director</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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The White House&#8217;s drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske, pictured here with Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack, called for a “paradigm shift” in the nation&#8217;s approach to curbing drug abuse during a recent speech at the Betty Ford Center.
Mr. Kerlikowske, director of the White House&#8217;s Office of National Drug Control Policy, pushed for expanded access to long-term recovery programs [...]


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		<title>International Scientists Gather at Betty Ford Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Betty Ford Center welcomed over 50 scientists from around the world for a gathering at the Center Monday, June 11.

The group included members of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) International Program and UCLA faculty who were attending the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD), an annual conference that was held this year [...]


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		<title>Marianne Loera Honored at Nursing Event</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rancho Mirage Chamber of Commerce recently bestowed Nursing Awards of Excellence upon the top nurses from the four Coachella Valley hospitals as well as to a Nursing Specialty and an outstanding student nurse in the College of the Desert Nursing Program.
Marianne Loera, LPTII, was selected to represent the Betty Ford Center and is congratulated here by Dr. James Golden, [...]


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		<title>Major Speech by Director of National Drug Control Policy Set for Monday June 11</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/major-speech-by-director-of-national-drug-control-policy-set-for-monday-june-11.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) will deliver a major speech at the Betty Ford Center Monday, June 11, calling on Americans to understand drug addiction as a chronic disease of the brain instead of a moral failure. His talk will outline the importance of Federal, state, local, and [...]


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		<title>Success, Hope and Dreams Addressed at Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 17:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Success, Hope and Dreams
Bob Newton, retired Betty Ford Center lead counselor, shared his recovery and relapse prevention strategies at the recent statewide Behavioral Health Conference in Lincoln, Nebraska,  The event was titled &#8221;Facing Challenges – Creating Solutions – Celebrating Recovery.&#8221;  Bob continues to be involved with the Betty Ford Center, serving as lead relapse prevention [...]


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		<title>Tour of Our Campus</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 16:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<title>National Prevention Week is Underway</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 15:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Prevention Week is being recognized from May 20 – 26, and this year’s theme is “We are the ones. How are you taking action?&#8221;
The theme was introduced in the spring of 2011 through a public service announcement (PSA) video contest sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA.)  Young people were [...]


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		<title>Steven Tyler Selects Betty Ford Center for Awards Donation</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/steven-tyler-selects-betty-ford-center-for-awards-donation.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 16:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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Entertainer Steven Tyler has chosen Betty Ford Center as the recipient of a donation if he and Carrie Underwood are honored as winners during the CMT Music Awards on June 6.  The singers are nominated for ‘CMT Performance of the Year’, and fans can vote on the CMT website between now and June 4th.
Those who [...]


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		<title>‘For the Love of Children’</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/for-the-love-of-children.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/for-the-love-of-children.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 07:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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For over 34 years, Jerry Moe, Vice President and National Director of Children’s Programs at the Betty Ford Center, has been an advocate for children affected by the disease of addiction.
“Children, when they receive the proper help, support and guidance, can grow up with a sense of self-respect, a connection to positive spirituality, and the [...]


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		<title>Combination of Alcohol and Drugs can be Deadly</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/combination-of-alcohol-and-drugs-can-be-deadly.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 16:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. James Golden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Addiction is a fatal disease.
The American Society of Addiction Medicine recently released an updated definition of addiction.  In part, it is described as “… a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry.  It is characterized by inability to consistently abstain, impairment in behavioral control, craving, diminished recognition of significant problems with [...]


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		<title>California Local News</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/california-local-news.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/california-local-news.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Moe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our primary focus in the Children’s Program has always been to serve children and provide safety and guidance as they discover that they are not alone.  This prevention program helps them find a voice when it comes to how addiction has affected their young lives.  Over the first three months of the year, we will [...]


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		<title>Texas Local News</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/texas-local-news.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professional Training Series
The Professional Training Series is hosted in the Irving Five Star Kids offices as a part of our effort to offer quality learning opportunities to the mental health community. On March 9th, Suzy Jary, LCSW, TEP provided a dynamic and experiential training on Co-dependency which received many positive reviews from those in attendance. [...]


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		<title>National Children of Alcoholics Week</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/national-children-of-alcoholics-week.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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Children affected by a loved one’s addiction to drugs or alcohol often feel isolated. One of the first messages Children’s Program staff attempt to communicate to kids in group is that they are not alone. To address this same challenge, February 12-18, 2012 was designated National Children of Alcoholics (COA) Week in order to encourage [...]


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		<title>Before A Rule Is Broken:  Proactive Behavior Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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In the last issue of Planting Seeds, I wrote about creating safety with rules and consequences.  However, behavior management begins before the first child walks through the door. Being proactive and preventative can curtail problems before they start.  Practice these tips and you will be one step ahead of the game!
Be Prepared
Have all of your [...]


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		<title>You Are Not Alone, Part I</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/programs/you-are-not-alone-part-i.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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For many of the interested parents who sign up for our program, there may be a lot of fear and anxiety. What will happen and what my child will say during the program.
This fear may be what prevents them from showing up that first day. The first thing I want parents to know is that [...]


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		<title>Colorado Local News</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/colorado-local-news.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Colorado Children’s Program has been very busy.
In December, we facilitated two community programs in Denver and Colorado Springs locations. We were also able to enjoy staff self-care with many of the Colorado Team taking time off during the holidays.  The rest was much needed as we were geared up for a busy winter season.
In [...]


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		<title>Annual Betty Ford Center Golf Tournament Benefits Scholarship Fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 26th Betty Ford Invitational Pro-Am Dinner was recently held at The Club at Morningside as the opening event for the annual charity golf tournament played the next day.
The tournament features LPGA pros and raises money for the Financial Assistance Fund that assists with drug and alcohol treatment for qualified patients who need financial help [...]


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		<title>California Children’s Program News &#8211; Summer 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/california-childrens-program-news-summer-2011.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The California Children’s Program strives to help in educating families about the disease of addiction in many different ways. We are dedicated to serving families that come to our Children’s Program on our main campus; however, a large amount of time is utilized throughout our community.
We will continue to have two programs a month on [...]


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		<title>What is “Tools for the Journey?”</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/what-is-tools-for-the-journey.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Tools for the Journey” is a one-day workshop offered by Betty Ford Children’s Program for professionals interested in helping children from addicted homes.
The session provides training on how to work with children and families in achieving these goals:
1. Introduce children to healing from addiction in their family;
2. Empower adults with parenting skills; and
3. Heal the [...]


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		<title>PRISM Award Recognizes the Struggle of Kids of Alcoholics</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/prism-award-recognizes-the-struggle-of-kids-of-alcoholics.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 28th, the 15th Annual PRISM Awards recognized Lucky Duck Productions’ special program, “Nick News with Linda Ellerbee – “Under the Influence: Kids of Alcoholics”” with the award for Children or Teen Television Program. The special tells the story of 5 kids who live with alcoholic parents and the challenges they face because of [...]


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		<title>Positive Discipline for Parenting in Recovery</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/positive-discipline-for-parenting-in-recovery.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The one book we consistently recommend to the parents, foster parents and grandparents who go through our children’s programs is Positive Discipline for Parenting in Recovery. Written by Jane Nelsen, Riki Intner and Lynn Lott, and recently updated in 2007, this powerful book focuses on mending the broken bond between parent and child.
With an emphasis [...]


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		<title>Continuing Care Unique to Each Program, Uniformly Valuable</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/programs/continuing-care-unique-to-each-program-uniformly-valuable.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing care is an essential ingredient to the recovery process for alcoholics, addicts and their families. This is also very true when it comes to the children. Continuing care allows kids and families to stay connected, receive valuable reminders of the tools they learned during the program, as well as the opportunity to practice and [...]


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		<title>Colorado News</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our staff is growing to meet the demands in Colorado. Please welcome Josie Warren as our new children’s counselor. A native Coloradan, Josie grew up in the Eastern Plains and started off in our group as a volunteer. Her enthusiasm and desire to help children from addicted homes has shown through and played a major [...]


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		<title>&#8220;Growing Up In An Alcoholic Family&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/addiction/growing-up-in-an-alcoholic-family.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lost Childhood: Growing Up In An Alcoholic Family is a half-hour program told in three parts. The first part begins in 1986 at a summer camp retreat for young children of alcoholics. The children speak about their experiences with an honesty and wisdom beyond their years. Many of these children know they are at high [...]


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		<title>Let us share a harvest with you today!</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/let-us-share-a-harvest-with-you-today.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to our new newsletter for professionals, Planting Seeds.
All of the Children’s Program staff, whether we’re in Texas, Colorado or California, consider ourselves farmers. Each and every day, in our work with children and families hurt by the insidious disease of alcoholism and other drug addiction, we sow seeds that we hope will take root. [...]


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		<title>&#8220;12 Steps for Parents&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/12-steps-for-parents.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From ‘12 Steps for Parents’ by Dr. Patricia O’Gorman and Philip Diaz, MSW
It is important to remember that parenting is always a struggle between love and fear. As parents, we try to control our children in an attempt to protect them from any painful experiences. The best you can do as a parent is be [...]


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		<title>Texas Five Star Kids News – Summer 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EMDR Workshop Successful
On April 29th, Renee Lozano, LCSW presented as part of the Betty Ford Center Five Star Kids Training Series on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). EMDR is a technique used in therapeutic work with those who have experienced trauma and continue to experience strong emotional reactions long after a difficult event has [...]


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		<title>California Five Star Kids News – Fall 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the school year in full swing, the California Children’s staff is facilitating four-day programs in our elementary schools. We are happy to work so closely with the Desert Sands Unified School District and their Student Assistance Program to provide preventative education to children that would otherwise not have the ability to attend our programs [...]


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		<title>Parenting Issues for Parents in Recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
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Adults in recovery face many day-to-day challenges, and for those who are parents, maintaining good relationships with children can be both rewarding and daunting at the same time. Addressing parenting issues during various stages of recovery can lead to enhanced quality of the parent-child relationship, especially during adolescence. Research has shown that effective parenting is [...]


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		<title>The 7 C&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
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(Ages 7 and up)
From the book Discovery . . . Finding the Buried Treasure by Jerry Moe
This activity goes beyond helping youngsters understand that family addiction is not their fault. While this game helps children know in their hearts that they are not responsible for their parents&#8217; problems, it also guides them in learning how [...]


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		<title>Bonus Benefits of a Multi-Day Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
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By David Meggitt, M.A. Candidate
The Betty Ford Children’s Programs are an excellent resource for families struggling with addiction and learning about recovery. While our primary focus is on providing excellent, age-appropriate information and skill building to children who have lived or are living with an addicted loved one, we are able to observe children for [...]


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		<title>Reactive Attachment Disorder Workshop in Texas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
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The Texas Children’s Program hosted a day long workshop on September 24th on the topic of Reactive Attachment Disorder. Nancy Kolo, a local therapist specializing in the disorder, presented the information along with a panel of parents who have adopted children with RAD. Fifty professionals were in attendance and the evaluations were excellent. One of [...]


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		<title>Keeping Kids Engaged:  Effective Facilitation of Educational Support Groups for Children</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/keeping-kids-engaged-effective-facilitation-of-educational-support-groups-for-children.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of us who run educational support groups for school-age children, having an amazing activity with an incredible message doesn’t always mean that kids will be interested or that they will “get” it. The key to a successful activity is more in the delivery than anything else.
Anyone who has ever worked with elementary age [...]


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		<title>California News</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/california-news.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/california-news.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The California Children’s Program kicked off the holiday season with our 28th Annual Alumni Reunion. Children from across the country joined together to celebrate their family’s continued recovery. Staff from our Texas and Colorado Children’s Programs joined with California to help make the event special and fun for the kids. In addition, the Children’s Program [...]


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		<title>Kids’ Bill of Rights</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/addiction/kids-bill-of-rights.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/addiction/kids-bill-of-rights.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have the right to be yourself. 
You have the right to ask for help. 
You have a right to your own opinions. 
You have the right to make mistakes. 
You have the right to your own feelings. 
You have the right to share your feelings with safe people. 
You have the right to think [...]


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		<title>Children’s Program News &#8211; Colorado</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/addiction/children%e2%80%99s-program-news-colorado.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Meggitt, Colorado Children&#8217;s Counselor, made a presentation for The Coalition for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (CPCAN) Forum on September 17th, 2010. The focus of the talk was hands-on practical suggestions for teachers and other people working directly with children affected by a loved one&#8217;s substance abuse. Topics covered included how to [...]


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		<title>National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children is a Resource</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/national-alliance-for-drug-endangered-children-is-a-resource.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 6th, Elizabeth Devine, Clinical Coordinator for the Betty Ford Center Five Star Kids presented “Children&#8217;s Perspectives on Addiction in the Home: Considerations for Professionals” via webinar for the National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children. Over 500 professionals from across the nation tuned in to see the artwork and writings of children that exemplify [...]


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		<title>Children’s Program News &#8211; Texas</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/childrens-program-news-texas.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Staff to Present at National Drug Endangered Children Conference
The 2010 National DEC Conference is being held in partnership with the Texas Alliance for Drug Endangered Children and the Greater Dallas Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse. The Texas Alliance for Drug Endangered Children is supported by the Children’s Justice Act through the Texas Center for [...]


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		<title>Colorado Childrens Program News – Summer 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We welcome Josie Warren, a native Coloradan to our staff. She brings with her a lot of enthusiasm and hope for the children with whom we work. She received her Psychology and Human Development Bachelor of Arts degrees from Eckerd College in Florida. Josie started in our program as a volunteer in July of 2010. [...]


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		<title>COUNSELOR&#8217;S TOOLBOX: Bag of Rocks</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/counselors-toolbox-bag-of-rocks.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
A Tool to Address Stuffed Problems and Feelings
(Ages 7 and up)
This experiential exercise helps children to kinesthetically understand the consequences of holding problems and feelings inside. In a fun way, it also introduces them to the recovery process of identifying problems and expressing feelings. Youngsters actually experience freedom by initiating this process for themselves.
Description: With [...]


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		<title>Jerry Moe Presented with Community Service Award</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/jerry-moe-presented-with-community-service-award.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Jerry Moe, National Director of the Betty Ford Children’s Program, received the California Society of Addiction Medicine (CSAM) 2010 Community Service Award during the organization’s recent Addiction Medicine Review Course in Newport Beach.
An internationally known author, lecturer and trainer, Jerry’s passionate advocacy for, and work with, children of alcoholics and addicts has significantly improved thousands [...]


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		<title>Texas News</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/addiction/texas-news.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again the Five Star Kids sponsored a toy drive for the families and agencies that we partner with. The donations come primarily from tenants in our office building. As in years past there were an abundance of toys, bikes, games, art supplies and plush animals to distribute to our kids.
Elizabeth Devine, clinical coordinator, spearheaded [...]


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		<title>Actress Jamie Lee Curtis, Experts Gather At Betty Ford Center Symposium Aimed At Treating Women</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/actress-jamie-lee-curtis-experts-gather-at-betty-ford-center-symposium-aimed-at-treating-women.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She delivered the last sentence of her keynote speech in her graceful, yet punchy, humble, yet assertive, Jamie Lee Curtis way: “All of us are better when we are loved.” These last words echoed through the pavilion at UCLA on a rare, hot and sunny March morning at the Betty Ford Center’s Women’s Symposium, where [...]


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		<title>Young Adult Track Features New Educational Component</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/young-adult-track-features-new-educational-component.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brandman University]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Betty Ford Center, in collaboration with Brandman University (WASC-accredited University) is now offering the Success Strategies Certificate Course for patients committed to 120 days of treatment.  The course begins after patients transition into the Residential Day Treatment (RDT) program.
This course will be delivered at the Residential Day Treatment campus and taught by professional faculty from [...]


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		<title>Testimonials are a Tribute to the Importance of Aftercare</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/addiction/testimonials-are-a-tribute-to-the-importance-of-aftercare.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the Children’s Program FCC? Our children’s counselors contact parents of the children who have come through our program every three months for one year. This is a way for children and families to still feel connected and to receive valuable reminders of tools they learned during the program.
“We miss being there and being [...]


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		<title>New Training Opportunity Draws Rave Reviews</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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The first five-day Professionals in Residence (PIR): Focus on Children program – tailored specifically for those who work with children or are interested in developing children’s services – was recently held on the Betty Ford Center’s Rancho Mirage campus.
Jerry Moe, National Director of the Betty Ford Children’s Program and Training Academy, and trainer/counselor Peggy McGillicuddy [...]


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		<title>Children’s Program News &#8211; California</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/addiction/childrens-program-news-california.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The California Children’s staff maintained a steady presence in the community this summer. In addition to facilitating our four-day programs on the Betty Ford Center campus twice a month, we dedicated much time to providing tools to children, families and professionals.
For the third year, staff from the Children’s Program visited the James O. Jessie Desert [...]


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		<title>Nick News Special to be Rebroadcast This Month</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NICK NEWS WITH LINDA ELLERBEE &#8211; UNDER THE INFLUENCE: KIDS OF ALCOHOLICS
Eleven million American kids live in a family with a parent suffering from alcoholism. Countless others deal with the havoc, trauma and chaos of this family disease but aren’t currently living with the alcoholic. We are talking about one out of every four kids [...]


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		<title>Colorado Five Star Kids News – Fall 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On October 5th, we held our annual “Thank You Luncheon” at the Cool River Cafe in the Denver Tech Center for 35 people. Each year we are pleased to be able to host a luncheon to let our supporters, referents and friends know how we are doing, and how much we appreciate their support.
Last month, [...]


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		<title>Texas Five Star Kids News &#8211; Fall 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Kudos to News Special on Kids of Alcoholics &#8211; Lesson Plan Available</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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We are delighted to share the news that on September 10, 2011, the Television Academy gave a nod to a very important video program. &#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 in the Creative Arts portion of the 63rd Annual [...]


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		<title>Planting Seeds One Program at a Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
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An Interview with Pat Schafer, Brighton Hospital
One in four children is affected by a loved one’s addiction to alcohol and/or other drugs. More than 8.3 million children live with at least one parent who abuses or is addicted to alcohol or other drugs (National Household Survey on Drug Abuse [NHSDA], 2007). Because of their circumstances [...]


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		<title>Do Not Forget The Rules! Creating Safety In Support Groups for Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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Professionals facilitating support groups realize that one factor in having a successful group experience is their ability to create a safe environment. There are a variety of ways to do this, but one of the most important when working with elementary school-age children is to establish age-appropriate rules and consistently enforce them. Why, then, is [...]


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		<title>Jerry Moe Contributes To New Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
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Jerry Moe, Vice President and National Director of Betty Ford Children’s Programs, is a contributor to a newly released book, Children of Substance-Abusing Parents: Dynamics and Treatment.
“Children of Substance-Abusing Parents: Dynamics and Treatment” is a necessary reference for all mental health professionals and students who need to understand and treat this population. It offers an [...]


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		<title>Alarming Prescription Drug Abuse Statistics Prompt Community Meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Schwarzlose, CEO of the Betty Ford Center, recently moderated a panel discussing “Prescription Drug Abuse:  Identifying Solutions to Save Lives” at the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, CA.
Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack organized the event to help make more people aware of the toll that prescription drug abuse is taking on our society.
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		<title>&#8220;Running for a Reason&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Meggitt has set an impressive goal.
The manager of Betty Ford Center’s Colorado Children’s Program began training in December for the Colorado Marathon, scheduled May 6 in Fort Collins, CO.  He hopes to raise awareness for COAs (Children of Alcoholics/Addiction) as well as donations for the program he serves.
“One in four children under the age of [...]


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		<title>Designer Drug Affects Many Parts of the Brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ecstasy is a derivative of amphetamine and has a variety of street names, including XTC, Adam, E and Essence.   Unlike other drugs of abuse, which are often derived from plants (e.g., cocaine, morphine, nicotine) Ecstasy is synthesized by altering the structure of the amphetamine molecule.  It affects cognition (thinking), mood and memory. It also can [...]


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		<title>BFC Board Member Returns to Research Institute</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Betty Ford Center Board of Directors member A. Thomas McLellan, Ph.D., has returned to his leadership role as CEO of the Treatment Research Institute (TRI.)
The Treatment Research Institute is a non-profit organization dedicated to developing and providing evidence-based solutions to the devastating problems of substance abuse affecting families, schools, businesses, courts and healthcare. Its investigators [...]


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		<title>Prescription Opioid Misuse Addressed at Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/prescription-opioid-misuse-addressed-at-conference.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 01:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Harry Haroutunian]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Harry Haroutunian, Betty Ford Center Physician Director, recently spoke on the topic “Prescription Opioids and the Impaired Physician” in his keynote address at the ‘Prescription Opioid Misuse Academy: The Dark Side of Prescription Opioids’ conference held in San Diego, CA.
An educational program of the American College of Medical Toxicology, the conference focused on evidence [...]


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		<title>Codependency to be Addressed During March Presentation</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/codependency-to-be-addressed-during-march-presentation.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Betty Ford Center and Social Model Recovery Systems have teamed to present the Education and Networking Event ‘Heal your Brain or Choose your Addiction and Lose your Boundaries’ Friday, March 16 in Pasadena, CA.
The fee for the presentation is $30, three Continuing Education Units may be earned and lunch will be provided at the venue, [...]


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		<title>Conference Brings Addiction Experts Together at Betty Ford Center</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/conference-brings-addiction-experts-together-at-betty-ford-center.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill White]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
The Betty Ford Institute recently collaborated with the University of California, Los Angeles to present the ‘BFI/UCLA Annual Conference on Recovery: New Strategies’ on the Rancho Mirage, CA campus of the Betty Ford Center.
 As the nation moves toward improving the quality, affordability, and accessibility of health care, it is important to increase access to treatment [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center and Institute to Support Facilities in Mexico, Chile</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/betty-ford-center-and-institute-to-support-facilities-in-mexico-chile.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 08:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Schwarzlose, CEO of the Betty Ford Center and acting on behalf of the Center and the Betty Ford Institute, recently signed a two-year contract with Jose ‘Pepe’ Suarez, President of CASA MISPAH treatment center in Mazatlan Mexico and Santiago, Chile.
Pictured here are Patrick Haggerson, left, Jose &#8216;Pepe&#8217; Suarez and John Schwarzlose.
Patrick Haggerson, Program Director [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center Honors Special Week</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/betty-ford-center-honors-special-week.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children of Alcoholics (COA) Week &#8211; February 12 &#8211; 18 &#8211; celebrates the recovery of the many thousands of children (of all ages) who have received the help they needed to recover from the pain and losses suffered in their childhood, and it offers hope to those still suffering from the adverse impact of parental [...]


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		<title>Betty Ford Center Annual Women&#8217;s Symposium Set for March</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/betty-ford-center-annual-womens-symposium-set-for-march.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/dr-peters-pain-blog.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Przekop D.O.</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>2012 Alcohol Awareness Hour Begins this Month</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/2012-alcohol-awareness-hour-to-begin-in-january.php</link>
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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.
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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>
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		<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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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/2010-survey-results-drinking-and-driving-by-gender-and-age.php</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured/betty-ford-center-is-29-today.php</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured/consequences-of-codependency.php</link>
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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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		<description><![CDATA[
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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/under-the-influence-program-on-nick-news-wins-emmy.php</link>
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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>
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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>
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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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/betty-ford-center-co-founder-betty-ford-leaves-500000-in-bequests-to-center.php</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/all-signs-point-to-alcoholism-but-help-is-available.php</link>
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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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		<description><![CDATA[
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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/using-action-to-explore-the-12-steps-with-families.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/news/using-action-to-explore-the-12-steps-with-families.php#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/medications-are-not-a-roadblock-to-treatment.php</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/betty-ford-1918-2011.php</link>
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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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		<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>
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		<description><![CDATA[
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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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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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>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Treatment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pain management track]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transformation]]></category>

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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>
		<category><![CDATA[college drinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consequences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[statistics]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/video-addiction/prescription-drug-abuse.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[prescription abuse]]></category>

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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.  More in this series are posted on the Betty Ford Center YouTube channel.



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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Methods/Techniques]]></category>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/video-addiction/a-video-post.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Video-Addiction]]></category>

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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>
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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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/late-bloomer.php</link>
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		<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.
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Programs]]></category>
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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?
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[willingness]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/too-much-too-soon-can-be-a-challenge-in-early-recovery.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 21:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[focus]]></category>
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		<title>&#8220;What Goes Around Comes Around&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/what-goes-around-comes-around.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 22:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Rohrer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recovery]]></category>
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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.
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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.
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		<title>&#8220;Rude Awakening&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/rude-awakening.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/rude-awakening.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 22:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Rohrer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recovery]]></category>
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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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/right-sized.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Rohrer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acceptance]]></category>

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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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/rice.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/rice.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Rohrer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gratitude]]></category>

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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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured/alcohol-remorse-and-hope.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured/alcohol-remorse-and-hope.php#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/addiction/what-is-craving.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/addiction/what-is-craving.php#comments</comments>
		<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>
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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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Rohrer</dc:creator>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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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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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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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>
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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>God Shot</title>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/god-shot.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Rohrer</dc:creator>
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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>
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		<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>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/12-step-survey-results-available.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[medical student 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>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/serving-alcohol-to-young-people-at-home-is-risky.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
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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		<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>
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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/give-time-time.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Rohrer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[12 Steps]]></category>

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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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		<category><![CDATA[pet therapy]]></category>
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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>
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		<category><![CDATA[number one killer]]></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>
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		<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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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/my-fathers-son.php#comments</comments>
		<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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		<description><![CDATA[
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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary McGraw Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[family boundaries]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Connor Clark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Addiction]]></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>
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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/methods-techniques/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 alcohol treatment 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 Chemical Dependency Recovery Hospital which offers inpatient, outpatient and day treatment for alcohol [...]


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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>
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		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[gratitude]]></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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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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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		<description><![CDATA[
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>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured/dr-thomas-mclellan-elected-to-betty-ford-center-board-of-directors.php#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/treatment/neurocognitive-enhancement-for-the-treatment-of-chronic-pain.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peter Przekop]]></category>

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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>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick News]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[alcoholism]]></category>
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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>
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		<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>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured/why-does-the-disease-of-alcoholism-progress.php#comments</comments>
		<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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		<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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured/young-adult-track-now-includes-female-patients.php</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/bfc/betty-ford-center-turns-28.php</link>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Peter Przekop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[young adult track]]></category>

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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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/treatment/rising-above-the-reality-of-relapse-2.php</link>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/addiction/dr-johanna-oflaherty-addresses-binge-drinking.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[binge drinking]]></category>

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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>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/addiction/alcohol-abuse-versus-alcohol-dependence.php#comments</comments>
		<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>
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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[Note: Content in this article may be dated and include staffing and program information that is no longer current.
 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 [...]


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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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/addiction/19-most-frequently-asked-addiction-treatment-questions.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Addiction]]></category>
		<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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		<category><![CDATA[alcoholics]]></category>
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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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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>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/betty-ford-center-teams-with-first-nation-bands.php</link>
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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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		<description><![CDATA[Note:  Content in this article may be dated and include staffing and program information that is no longer current.
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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured/90-day-treatment-stay-the-new-gold-standard.php</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/treatment/90-day-treatment-program-launched-at-betty-ford-center.php</link>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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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>
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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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/addiction-beyond-borders.php</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/treatment/clinical-diagnostic-evaluation-program-scores-major-gains.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/treatment/clinical-diagnostic-evaluation-program-scores-major-gains.php#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/passing-of-the-torch.php</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/treatment/betty-ford-center-takes-in-hurricane-victims-for-treatment.php</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/obesity-outweighs-addiction-concern.php</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/betty-ford-center-works-with-native-canadians.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/methods-techniques/treatment-why-bother.php</link>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/betty-ford-center-works-with-drug-endangered-children-organization-2.php</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/bfc-childrens-program-evaluated-in-first-ever-scientific-study.php</link>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/treatment/stress-management-activities-help-patients-at-betty-ford-center.php</link>
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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 Chemical Dependency Recovery Hospital, the Betty Ford Center, located in Rancho Mirage, California.
Activities such as yoga, massage, acupuncture, biofeedback, [...]


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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>
		<dc:creator>Betty Ford Center</dc:creator>
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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>
		<link>http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/treatment/betty-ford-center-tests-back-use-of-buprenorphine-for-detox.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2004 16:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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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>
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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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