Word: hazelden
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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...