The way you think about and interact with “drugs” — substances like marijuana*, heroin, mushrooms, or cocaine and also caffeine, sugar, and alcohol — is a result of norms, expectations, and propaganda that are grounded in…
Living Sober
At 54 years old, Frank Ferrante wandered into the San Francisco restaurant Café Gratitude, expecting to find other ex-addicts and…
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My 2016 had a rocky start. It was all relatively manageable stuff—tremors, instead of earthquakes—but for a recovering alcoholic, the smallest of shakes can sometimes feel off the Richter scale. I came…
Over the past decade, as drug overdose deaths have surged across the United States, the popularity and accessibility of naloxone has risen as well. Nationwide the drug is available to emergency departments…
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AToN Center
AToN’s treatment program is based on a collaboration with each individual resident to “Achieve a recovery philosophy that works in…
Hazelden Center for Youth and Families
Introduction and Basic ServicesFounded in 1982 by the former first lady, Betty Ford, The Betty Ford Clinic merged with the…
Valley Detox Center for Addiction
Introduction and Basic ServicesLocated in the Greater Los Angeles, California’s San Fernando Valley, Valley Detox Center for Addiction is licensed…
Positive Sobriety Institute
Introduction and Basic ServicesChicago, Illinois based Positive Sobriety Institute offers outpatient substance abuse detox, a Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) and…
Monarch Shores
Introduction and Basic ServicesMonarch Shores was founded in 2005 in Dana Point, California, a small coastal city in Orange County,…