Betty Ford Center

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The Betty Ford Center is a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in Rancho Mirage, California, co-founded by former U.S. First Lady Betty Ford and her friend, Ambassador Leonard Firestone, in 1982. Mrs. Ford's decision to undertake such a project followed on the heels of her own battle with chemical addiction, and after her release from the U.S. Naval Hospital, she pursued the goal of creating a treatment center that emphasized the needs of women. Susan Ford, daughter of Mrs. Ford and the late president, serves as the center's current chairperson.

The center is located on the campus of the Eisenhower Medical Center.

[edit] Betty Ford Center in popular culture

The Betty Ford Center.

ALF had an episode in which ALF was addicted to eating cotton, which causes psychedelic experiences for him. Kate comments "We can take ALF to the Betty Ford Center and see if they have a cotton program."

A foreword to one of the books of Calvin and Hobbes comments how as people grow older they can find it hard to recapture the serendipity of childhood, then goes on to say "...a desperate few do the things that later land them in the Betty Ford Center. The rest of us, more sensibly, read Calvin and Hobbes."

In an episode of the The Simpsons , The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson Marge, Lisa, Bart, and Maggie go to see a musical based on The Betty Ford Center.

In a comedic sketch done by Mad TV's Nicole Sullivan, The Vancome Lady character works at the Betty Ford Center as a sarcastic and condescending receptionist poking fun at celebrities and their families who are either residing at the center at the time or are trying to check in.