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Malibu Addiction Center Growth Hurts Betty Ford
Quite a few years ago, the CEO of Betty Ford Center, the notoriously ill-tempered John Schwarzlose, began a series of tirades against Malibu centers in the storied non-profit's newsletter Findings....
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Sierra Tucson's Bill O'Donnell: The Birth of the High End
Bill O'Donnell says he initially had no thought of selling Sierra Tucson, despite having recently sold a majority stake in its sister company, Miraval spa. "But as things moved forward with CRC it...
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A Big Expansion
Four years ago, Matt Feehery approached the powers that be at Houston's giant Memorial Hermann hospital system with a plan for a huge expansion of the medical provider's Prevention and Recovery Center,...
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New Science-Based Models
Not too long ago, a group of investors got together, some of them addiction docs, but mostly just ordinary investors with a keen interest in backing a truly unique, highly integrated science-based...
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CRC's Barry Karlin: America's Methadone King
CRC is Minting Money With Methadone, But Its Opiate Clincs May Not Play Well on Wall Street About four years ago, Phil Herschman approached Barry Karlin with a deal to buy a group of methadone clinics...
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Florida House: A Huge Expansion Investment
Like so many treatment entrepreneurs in recovery, Sherief Abu- Moustafa has come to the realization, post recovery, that any success he may have had, pre-recovery, came pretty much in spite of himself,...
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Drug Policy Reform
Over the last couple of years, the editors of the New York Timeshave been running a series called War Without Borders, an outstanding War on Drugs exposé that is part of a flood of news coverage as...
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Midwest Addiction Center Gap
A number of years ago, in the 1990s, the Lemon family, a very large, very Catholic brood, took on a project they looked upon as a civic duty but that also, it turns out, became a pretty unique...
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Addiction Treatment's Generational Leadership Shift
In the mid-1990s, Doug Tieman was hired away from Hazelden, where he had initially been charged with setting up what is now the Hanley Center, and began his duties as the new CEO of the venerable...
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Silver Hill Resurgent
As years passed, 80-year-old-Silver Hill Hospital slowly began to lose some of the big caché tied to its venerable name, which had long been associated with delivering the top private care in New...
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Florida House: A Huge Addiction Center Expansion
Like so many treatment entrepreneurs in recovery, Sherief Abu- Moustafa has come to the realization, post recovery, that any success he may have had, pre-recovery, came pretty much in spite of himself,...
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Silver Hill Hospital: A Northeast Addictions Center Resurgent
As years passed, 80-year-old-Silver Hill Hospital slowly began to lose some of the big caché tied to its venerable name, which had long been associated with delivering the top private care in New...
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Michael Cartwright: A Prolific Addiction Treatment Entrepreneur
As Jerrod Menz talked about merging his tiny Forterus affordable center company with Michael Cartwright’s American Addiction Centers, AAC, little did Menz know that, slightly more than a year later,...
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Gateway Rehab: A Key Retirement
As Ken Ramsey looks to retirement in the middle of next year, he has much to be proud of as he surveys his accomplishments. Over 40 years ago he took charge of the institution founded by the much...
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Caron's Hanley Addiction Center Rebirth
It looked like pretty much a slam dunk good play at the time, many many years ago before the emergence of the Sierra Tucson’s and Meadows’ of the world, to do a deal with Palm Beach med surg St....
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Addictions Internet Marketing: Content is King... Once Again
As Barry Karlin addressed the Avondale Partners behavioral health investor conference years ago he made a revealing statement, saying that CRC Health, the company he founded that has had acquisitions...
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Sea Side Palm Beach: An Addictions NIMBY Triumph
About a decade ago, the late Don Mullaney invited a reporter to look at a property, making an entrance by pulling up in a fire engine red 1960s Ferrari. Throwing the hatch open, he grimaced heavily, in...
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Florida House Sober Living Leader
When the CEOs of the nation's two largest addictions treatment enterprises, on the for-profit side Andy Eckert of CRC Health Corp. and on the non-profit side Mark Mishek of Hazelden, step up with...
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Origins Recovery Center in Booming Texas
About a decade ago, Treatment Magazine profiled a Texas addictions legend, putting the late Mark Houston, who right down to his name evokes Lone Star imagery, on the cover of our magazine. After...
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Elements' Lucida: Treatment's Multi-Cultural Future
As the composition of the nation's demographics shift big time, with the amazing swift rise especially of the Hispanic segment of the national population, but also Asians and many other ethnic groups,...
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