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The Drug Free America Foundation ( DFAF) is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization founded in 1976 by former US Ambassador Mel Sembler, [2] his wife Betty Sembler ( née Schlesinger ), and Joseph Zappala [3] as Straight, Inc., [4] renamed The Straight Foundation, Inc. in 1985 and Drug Free America Foundation in 1995. [5] [6]
Betty Ford Center. / 33.7630802°N 116.4013637°W / 33.7630802; -116.4013637. The Betty Ford Center ( BFC) is a non-profit, residential treatment center for persons with substance dependence in Rancho Mirage, California. It offers inpatient, outpatient, and residential day treatment for alcohol and other drug addictions, as well as ...
Synanon was founded in 1958 by Charles Dederich Sr., a member of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) from Santa Monica, California. [ 3] At the time of Synanon's founding, those suffering from drug addiction were not always welcomed into AA because their issues were considered significantly different from those of alcoholics.
Theresa Cisneros. California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison, Corcoran(SATF) is a male-only state prisonlocated in the city of Corcoran, in Kings County, California, specifically designed to house inmates who have substance use disorder. It is sometimes referred to as California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility, and ...
The Soteria model is a milieu-therapeutic approach developed to treat acute schizophrenia, usually implemented in Soteria houses. [ 1] Based on a recovery model, the common elements of the Soteria approach include the use of primarily nonmedical staff, who do not prescribe or administer antipsychotic medication to patients, and the preservation ...
California will provide first responders, universities and other qualifying organizations with a generic version of Narcan, the opioid overdose reversal drug, for free, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced ...
The drug treatment programs are thought to be associated with lower recidivism rates. [9] However, in February 2007 the California Office of the Inspector General concluded "Numerous studies show that despite an annual cost of $36 million, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s in-prison substance abuse treatment programs have ...
94.64. [ edit on Wikidata] The 2010 ISCD study "Drug Harms in the UK: a multi-criteria decision analysis " found that alcohol scored highest overall and in Economic cost, Injury, Family adversities, Environmental damage, and Community harm. Drug rehabilitation is the process of medical or psychotherapeutic treatment for dependency on ...