Hazelden Foundation

The non-profit Hazelden Foundation, based in Center City, Minnesota, pioneered the model of care for alcoholism and drug addiction that is now the most widely used in the world. With over 50 years of experience and an unparalleled breadth of services, Hazelden today is an international provider of treatment, recovery, research, education and training, and is the largest publisher of recovery-related materials in the world.

Since its 1949 founding in a rural Minnesota lakeside farmhouse, Hazelden has grown into one of the world's largest, most respected, and best-known private alcohol and drug rehabilitation centers in the world. Thousands of people from all 50 states and 42 foreign countries have turned to Hazelden to find expertise, quality care, and leading authorities on addiction and recovery issues.

Hazelden has facilities in Minnesota (Center City, Plymouth and St. Paul), Oregon, Illinois and New York. It offers assessment and primary residential addiction treatment for adults and adolescents, including extended care and intermediate care, as well as outpatient treatment, aftercare services and a family program. Hazelden's treatment philosophy is based on the recognition that addiction is a disease and that abstinence is the best way to manage the condition. Residential treatment is delivered by a team of professionals representing many disciplines including nurses, physicians, psychologists and psychiatrists, substance abuse/addiction counselors, fitness and recreation specialists and spiritual care professionals.

Hazelden's excellent website at www.hazelden.org.