Betty Ford Center Alumni Services

Addiction Prevention Education and Policy Development

See the results of our work in the field of addiction. Publications.

Garrett O'Connor, M.D.
dispels myths about the disease of addiction.

Upcoming Conference

Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Addiction: Parent-focused Strategies
September, 2010

Drug treatment providers, policy makers and researchers to explore reasons for the relative lack of education and training about parent–child relationship skills provided by chemical dependency treatment programs to addicted parents. Recommendations will be generated by the Conference suggesting ways to overcome this programmatic deficit....>Learn More

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The Betty Ford Institute conducts and supports collaborative programs of research, prevention, education and policy development
that leads to a reduction of the devastating effects of substance use disorders on individuals, families and communities.