Hazelden
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The non-profit Hazelden Foundation, based in Center City, Minnesota, pioneered the so-called Minnesota Model of care for alcoholism and drug addiction that is now the most widely used in the world. Hazelden today is an international provider of addiction treatment, a publisher, a research center, and educational facility.
Hazelden has facilities in Minnesota (Center City, Plymouth and Saint Paul), Oregon, Illinois and New York. It offers assessment and primary residential addiction treatment for adults and adolescents, including extended care and intermediate care, as well as outpatient treatment, aftercare services and a family program. Hazelden's treatment philosophy is based on the disease theory of addiction and stresses that abstinence is the best way to manage the condition. Residential treatment is delivered by a team of professionals representing many disciplines including nurses, physicians, psychologists and psychiatrists, substance abuse/addiction counselors, fitness and recreation specialists and spiritual care advisors.
Since its 1949 founding in a rural Minnesota lakeside farmhouse, Hazelden has grown into one of the nation's largest private alcohol and drug rehabilitation centers. Dan Anderson was vice president of Hazelden from 1961 and president between 1971 and 1986. Ellen Breyer is currently president and CEO.
[edit] External links
- Hazelden official website
- Hazelden official bookstore
- Hazelden Research Butler Center for Research
- Hazelden Graduate School of Addiction Studies
- Hazelden Publishing
