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Betty Ford Center Begins Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program Accredited by ABAM Foundation
April 16th, 2013 / Featured News / Betty Ford Institute
Betty Ford Center , the licensed addiction treatment hospital, today joins the ranks of several elite medical institutions in successfully meeting rigorous requirements set by the Training and Accreditation Committee for Addiction Medicine, part of the ABAM (The American Board of Addiction Medicine) Foundation. The Center will welcome its first Addiction Medicine Fellow later this year. The successful applicant will spend one year at the Center’s Rancho Mirage home. Dr. James Golden , Physician Director, Inpatient Services at Betty Ford Center, will be Director of the...

Betty Ford Institute Offers Students Long-distance Learning Opportunity
April 8th, 2013 / BFI Staff Publications / Joan Connor Clark
Medical students halfway across the country recently learned about the disease of addiction through a Betty Ford Institute first: video-conferencing. Kali Hopkins, a student at the Indiana University School Of Medicine and an alumnus of the SIMS (Summer Institute for Medical Students) program, expedited the presentation with Betty Ford Institute Medical Education Coordinator Joseph Skrajewski. Betty Ford Center Physician Dr. Harry Haroutunian combined two lectures – “Disease of Addiction” and “We are not Immune” – to give the 45 first and second-year medical students...

Five Star Kids’ Schedule Announced
August 10th, 2012 / Featured News / Betty Ford Institute
Lance Hughes, manager of Betty Ford Center’s Five Star Kids, recently announced the upcoming schedule for the program. “We believe in strong partnerships and work with numerous treatment programs, agencies and professional organizations to help create a network of support for children who love someone addicted to alcohol or other drugs,” said Lance. “Children are usually the first hurt and the last helped in the midst of the disease of addiction. We include parents and guardians in the recovery process to help create the best possible opportunity for healing for the whole...

Betty Ford Center Five Star Kids Program Teams with Innovation 360 for North Texas Families Program
July 25th, 2012 / Featured News / Betty Ford Institute
Innovation 360, an outpatient treatment center for alcohol & drug addiction, depression, anxiety and bipolar, family therapy and life development, announced today that it is teaming up with the Betty Ford Center to host the Five Star Kids program for North Texas youth and their caregivers. The program, which helps children understand that family-related alcohol and drug abuse is not their fault, will be hosted at Innovation 360's new Counseling Center located at 6600 LBJ freeway in North Dallas. The three-day community program will be held Aug. 16 - 18 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and...

Major Speech by Director of Office of National Drug Policy Set for Monday June 11
June 7th, 2012 / Featured News / Betty Ford Institute
Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) will deliver a major speech at the Betty Ford Center Monday, June 11, calling on Americans to understand drug addiction as a chronic disease of the brain instead of a moral failure. His talk will outline the importance of Federal, state, local, and community efforts to lift the stigma associated with substance use disorders. Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack will also be in attendance. The event will be live streamed at 9:30 am PST.

Mrs. Ford’s Vision Brought to Life Through BFI
July 11th, 2011 / Featured News / Betty Ford Institute
The Betty Ford Institute has been fortunate to have benefited from the vision and wisdom of First Lady Betty Ford. Over several decades, her pioneering spirit and honest dialogue has contributed to hope and healing. In 1975, Mrs. Ford took her first step into history by going public with her breast cancer, thereby saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of women by emphasizing early detection. Seven years later, in 1982, Mrs. Ford took her next step into history by sharing the truth about her alcoholism and other drug dependence with the nation, and by co-founding the Betty...