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...addiction medicine and treat alcoholics and addicts for 27 years," he said. He supplied a gushy blurb (along with one by Aerosmith's Steven Tyler) for The Harder They Fall, a 2005 book on celebrities who beat addiction that is promoted on the web site of the renowned Hazelden clinic. "Read this book!" Dr. Smith writes. "Here are the real winners in life. The best and the brightest with devastating illnesses, living clean, sober, confident, happy lives." He is identified as the "psychiatric consultant to the U. S. Congress" for the past 12 years...
...public figures like Downey, the danger is especially great. "When you're famous," says Niki Moyer, a psychologist and clinical specialist at the Hazelden Foundation in Center City, Minn., "people respond to your public image, not to you as an individual. But direct human connection is an important key to healthy recovery." Going public with declarations that you're on the wagon, as Downey did in Vanity Fair and other publications, doesn't help. The feeling that your struggle is on full public view adds stress that can help trigger a relapse. That's one reason, says Moyer, that...
...another chance to quit this Thursday as part of the American Cancer Society's 22nd annual Great American Smokeout. One in 4 smokers is expected at least to try kicking the habit. Nobody says it will be easy. A national survey made public last week by the Hazelden Foundation of Center City, Minn., found that it took former smokers, on average, at least 10 attempts over 18 years before they finally stopped for good. The No. 1 reason for quitting, cited by more than half of all ex-smokers: health concerns or an actual health problem, like suffering a heart...
...result, across the country facilities like Sierra Tucson have been forced to reinvent themselves. In 1994 the Hartford Institute of Living, in Connecticut, merged with Hartford Hospital to avoid extinction. The nonprofit giants, the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California, and the Hazelden Foundation in Minnesota, have both increased the amount of financial aid they offer to needy patients. McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusets, a 185-year-old Harvard-affiliated facility, long ago famous as a haven for addled and addicted Brahmins, has seen its average patient stay drop from 57 days to 14 since 1989 and now fills...
...home from the clinic, got drunk, then fell down the stairs, nearly crashing through a window. And for many addicts, detoxification is only the beginning of treatment. Often, substance abuse overlays a more serious psychiatric problem that needs lengthy treatment. In a short stay, says Jerry Spicer, president of Hazelden, "you can deal with detox, but you can't bring about a recovery. It comes down to trying to treat a chronic illness as an acute one." "What you lose," agrees McLean's Sederer, "is the ability to see patients to the next stage of recovery...