Hazelden Drug Addiction Treatment Center
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Hazelden Drug Addiction Treatment Center
Located in Center City, Minnesota, the main Hazelden center offers a number of treatment opportunities to recovering alcoholics or drug addicts and their families. Originally founded in 1949, the center has provided care to numerous individuals from across the country and around the world. Additional Hazelden-affiliated rehab programs are available in Oregon, Illinois, and New York.
The Hazelden mission emphasizes the holistic treatment of each unique patient by addressing physical, mental, and spiritual issues during the process. Numerous professionals – including physicians, psychologists, addiction counselors, spiritual advisors, and fitness experts – are involved in the care of patients. Whether you are looking for a drug rehab center for yourself or a loved one, Hazelden has a number of services available. In addition to residential and outpatient services, Hazelden offers evaluations, mental health services, teen services, family services, and a recovery enhancement program.
Unlike some programs that leave patients to fend for themselves after discharge, Hazelden is committed to the complete recovery of those who work through its program. Hazelden offers 18 months of free ongoing support by phone or email from an addiction counselor to help patients cope with the real-world stressors that they are likely to encounter after leaving the facility.
Hazelden realizes that addiction affects entire families, and one person’s addiction can cause anger, frustration, confusion, and numerous other emotions to surface and negatively impact the dynamics of the family as a whole. For this reason, the center’s family education programs teach those who have watched (or are currently watching) a loved one struggle with addiction how to identify their own emotions and heal from the damage that addiction often does to family relationships in general. Hazelden offers a program specifically geared toward the parents of addicted individuals as well as a supplementary program that addresses the difficulties siblings may face.
