"James West (physician) James Ward West (March 29, 1914 – July 24, 2012) was an American physician, psychiatrist, surgeon, and pioneer in the fields of organ transplantation and addiction treatment. He was part of a team of surgeons who performed the world's first kidney transplant in 1950. West practiced as a surgeon from 1948 to 1981. He then focused on psychiatry during his later career. He co-founded the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California, in 1982. West served as the founding medical director of the Betty Ford Center from 1982 until 1989. West was born in Chicago, Illinois, on"
"the arts, substance abuse, and healthcare. In 1984, First Lady Yankelewitz founded the Costan Rican chapter of Hogares CREA to battle treat drug addiction among young people. She also helped to open the Center for the Rehabilitation of Alcoholics (Centro para la Rehabilitación de Alcohólicos), a clinic focusing on alcoholism. Additionally, she sponsored a number of healthcare and community organizations, including the Hospital San Juan de Dios in San José and the Red Cross. Owing to her background in the arts, Yankelewitz established two artistic institutions, the Casa de la Cultura de Puntarenas and the Artesanías de Sarchí (""Sarchí Craft"
"administration's effort, Reagan's First Lady, Nancy, made the War on Drugs her main cause as First Lady, by founding the ""Just Say No"" drug awareness campaign. Today, there are still hundreds of ""Just Say No"" clinics and school clubs in operation around the country aimed at helping and rehabilitating children and teenagers with drug problems. The program demonstrated to children various ways of refusing drugs and alcohol. Reagan nominated Sandra Day O'Connor to fill the Supreme Court Justice vacancy left by the retirement of Justice Potter Stewart, as he had promised during his 1980 presidential campaign. Sandra Day O'Connor was"
"later commented on the evening, saying ""We felt the ice of the Cold War crumbling."" Reagan concluded, ""It was a perfect ending for one of the great evenings of my husband's presidency."" The First Lady launched the ""Just Say No"" drug awareness campaign in 1982, which was her primary project and major initiative as first lady. Reagan first became aware of the need to educate young people about drugs during a 1980 campaign stop in Daytop village, New York. She remarked in 1981 that ""Understanding what drugs can do to your children, understanding peer pressure and understanding why they turn"
"declined from 33% in 1980 to 12% in 1991. First Lady Nancy Reagan made the War on Drugs her main priority by founding the ""Just Say No"" drug awareness campaign, which aimed to discourage children and teenagers from engaging in recreational drug use by offering various ways of saying ""no."" Nancy Reagan traveled to 65 cities in 33 states, raising awareness about the dangers of drugs including alcohol. According to AIDS activist organizations such as ACT UP, the Reagan administration largely ignored the AIDS crisis, which began to unfold in the United States in 1981, the same year Reagan took"
"build self-esteem, improve mental health, decision-making skills, and assertiveness to prevent the abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs. SAMHSA joined with the Hispanic/Latino community to develop educational materials for the initiative. The program, sponsored by SAMHSA (at the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services) and leaders of the Hispanic/Latino community, garnered the support and participation of two prominent Latina community leaders: Florida's First Lady Columba Bush (Governor Jeb Bush's wife) and New York State Health Commissioner and former U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novello, M.D., agreed to serve as ""Madrinas"" (godmothers, mentors, spokespersons) for the campaign, whose title"
"he owned a home here from 1970 his death in 1977. Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope and Dinah Shore were residents of the valley and were instrumental in the creation of three major golf tournaments, the Frank Sinatra Celebrity Golf Tournament, Bob Hope Chrysler Classic (now hosted by comedian and golf aficionado George Lopez) and the Nabisco LPGA respectively. All three have streets named in their honor as does President Gerald Ford, a longtime Rancho Mirage resident and benefactor of the substance abuse center that bears his wife's name, the Betty Ford Center on the campus of the Eisenhower Medical Center,"
"concern. First Lady Nancy Reagan made the War on Drugs her main cause as First Lady, founding the ""Just Say No"" drug awareness campaign. Concerns about drug use prompted Congress to pass legislation such as the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 and the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, the latter of which granted $1.7 billion to fight drugs and established a mandatory minimum penalties for drug offenses. Reagan also signed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, which further increased criminal penalties for drug use and established the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Critics charged that Reagan's policies promoted"
"former Finance Minister of India, Ranganathan was widowed in 1979, at the age of 33, when her husband died of health issues related to alcohol addiction. This prompted her to focus her attention to the problem of substance abuse and addiction. In order to prepare herself, Shanthi, holder of a Master's degree in Social Work from the Madras School of Social Work, joined the Hazelden Addiction Treatment Centre, Minneapolis for training in de-addiction programmes and started a day care centre in one of the family properties in Chennai, in 1980. The modest beginning, with a few assistants, grew to become"
"for drug offenses. Although the bill was criticized, Reagan considered it a personal victory. In 1988, she became the first First Lady invited to address the United Nations General Assembly, where she spoke on international drug interdiction and trafficking laws. Critics of Reagan's efforts questioned their purpose, labelled Reagan's approach to promoting drug awareness as simplistic, and argued that the program did not address many social issues, including unemployment, poverty, and family dissolution. A number of ""Just Say No"" clubs and organizations remain in operation around the country. Reagan assumed the role of unofficial ""protector"" for her husband after the"
"Washington D.C. to discuss alcoholism and mental health issues. In the 1980s, after leaving the position of First Lady, Carol Judge established a state treatment program to treat nurses with substance abuse programs. Governor Thomas L. Judge and Carol Judge separated during the fall of 1979 and divorced during the winter of 1980, ending Judge's tenure as Montana's first lady. Their divorce has been described as public and ""bitter"". Her former husband lost his bid for re-election for a third term as governor in 1980, losing the Democratic primary election to his Lieutenant Governor, Ted Schwinden. Schwinden was elected Governor"
"where he worked as a network television weather anchor, working while abusing both drugs and alcohol. Lamm opened nightclubs in Washington, D.C. and Denver in 2001, but entered a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program in February 2003. His subjective experiences of his own rehabilitation, combined with his acquaintanceship with the work of Boulder, Colorado psychiatrist Judith Landau to convince him of the efficacy of the family-centered process in helping addicts overcome addiction. Lamm has asserted that substance abusers with strong familial and social support systems are five times as likely to succeed in their goal of sobriety as persons lacking"
"children, Foley House in Whittier, California. This was the first place where addicted women could keep their children with them in a supportive controlled environment while getting clean and sober. This model for women's recovery has been used many times and is now considered the best practices method. Women who were separated from their children and labeled ""unfit mothers"", due to their substance abuse problems now had a chance to succeed and keep their families together. They added parenting classes and work training in their attempt to allow the women to succeed once they left Foley House. After Marcia's death"
"was once addicted to heroin. Beyoncé and her mother and business partner Tina Knowles later founded the Career Academy’s Beyoncé Cosmetology Center, which offers a seven-month cosmetology training program for adults. Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Kara DioGuardi created and contributes to the Phoenix Rising Music Program, which includes recording studios in three Phoenix House Academy facilities. The program teaches teens how to operate music recording equipment and how to record their own music as part of their music therapy programs. Phoenix House is affiliated with COAF (Center on Addiction and the Family). COAF helps families affected by alcohol and other drug abuse"
"organization in Anaheim, California in 1997 as Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity (CRACK) after she and her husband adopted one-by-one as each was born the latter four of eight children from a drug-addicted mother. Each of the four adopted children is separated in age by only one year. With the experience of helping the children through withdrawal and other health problems, she tried to get legislation passed in California that would have mandated long-term birth control for mothers who gave birth to babies who were exposed to cocaine as fetuses. After this failed she started what is now called Project"
"College in Notre Dame, Indiana. In 1971, she left her job with the Fort Logan Mental Health Center, and moved from Denver to Aspen, Colorado, with her four children shortly after a divorce from her husband. She lived to a home east of Aspen and raised her four children, Kurt, Erik, Kaela and Soren. She took a job with the Touchstone Mental Health Clinic, which had opened in 1969, and worked with the large number of hippies with drug and alcohol problems who were relocating to the Aspen area at the time. She later co-founded the Aspen Homeless Shelter and"
"into a wealthy New Orleans family; when in her late twenties, due to financial reverses, she had to go to work, her social and family connections made it easy for her to launch a career in public relations. Mann's drinking, however, grew to the point where it endangered not only her business but her life, including at least one suicide attempt. In 1939 her psychiatrist, Dr. Harry Tiebout, gave her a manuscript of the book ""Alcoholics Anonymous"", and persuaded her to attend her first AA meeting (at the time there were only two AA groups in the entire United States)."
"treatment of addictions. Along with the Clarke Insititute of Psychiatry, the Addiction Research Foundation and the Queen Street Mental Health Centre, the Donwood Institute formed the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Bell founded the private clinic Bellwood Health Services in 1982. It was involved in several Canadian landmarks in the treatment of addiction, including the provision of the first in-patient cocaine treatment program and first residential treatment program for sexual addiction in Canada. The clinic has contracts to provide service to northern Canada and the Canadian Armed Forces. In 2014, Bellwood Health Services was acquired by the Edgewood Health"
"treatment. Cirque Lodge Cirque Lodge is a for-profit drug addiction treatment facility located in Orem, Utah founded in 1999 by Richard Losee. Cirque Lodge specializes in treating drug and alcohol addiction in adults and youth as well as offering family workshops, individualized therapy programs and weekly onsite al-anon meetings. In 2002, Cirque Lodge opened a second facility in Orem, Utah in the former Osmond Studios built for the ""Donny & Marie"" television series. The facilities combined hold a maximum of 56 patients. The Cirque Lodge program is based on the Alcoholics Anonymous traditional twelve-step program. The treatment incorporates """"experiential therapy"""","
"White House china, which had been paid for by private donations. Following years of lax formality, she decided to restore a Kennedyesque glamour to the White House, and her interest in high-end fashion garnered much attention as well as criticism. She championed recreational drug prevention causes when she founded the ""Just Say No"" drug awareness campaign, which was considered her major initiative as First Lady. More discussion of her role ensued following a 1988 revelation that she had consulted an astrologer to assist in planning the president's schedule after the attempted assassination of her husband in 1981. She generally had"
"at ""respectable"" women for not doing their part in helping their fellow women. Meriwether continued to advocate for ""unfortunate women"", founding the Ella Oliver Refuge, a women's shelter in Memphis. Meriwether also took women into her own home to rehabilitate them. In 1882, her two daughters both eloped on the same night. Her daughter Virginia eloped and married Lowe Davis despite her mother's objections. After the honeymoon her daughter discovered that he was an opium and gambling addict and she returned to the care of her mother. Lide Meriwether took her daughter to the spa of Rhea Springs to recover."
"Chemical Dependency Services • Continuing Care • Evening Outpatient Sessions • Family Care Program (including family education and counseling) • Medically Supervised Detoxification and Rehabilitation • Personalized Chemical Dependency Treatment In 1983, Sharp HealthCare created the first hospital-based program designed for the young children of alcoholics and other chemically dependent parents at Sharp McDonald Center. Sharp McDonald Center The McDonald Center at Sharp HealthCare (formerly Sharp Vista Pacifica) is the only medically supervised substance abuse recovery center in San Diego County that provides treatment for adults. Sharp HealthCare acquired the facility in 1998. The facility is a 14-bed chemical dependency"
"drug addiction, is the current director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Dr. Helen Rodríguez Trías, an early advocate for women's reproductive rights, helped drive and draft U.S. federal sterilization guidelines in 1979. She was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by President Bill Clinton, and was the first Latina president of the American Public Health Association. Some Hispanics and Latinos have made their names in astronautics, including several NASA astronauts: Franklin Chang-Diaz, the first Latin American NASA astronaut, is co-recordholder for the most flights in outer space, and is the leading researcher on the plasma engine for rockets; France"
"advice on how she could help others and ultimately founded her own treatment centre. ""I started in two rooms, remortgaged my home, and it began to grow from there."" In 1998, she founded the Burton Addiction Centre, now the BAC O'Connor Centre, in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, and in 2002 opened a second BAC O'Connor Centre in Clayton. She has stated that BAC has one of the highest rates of success for helping people rehabilitate from drug and alcohol addictions and integrate into society. In 2011, she told the BBC that the centre's figures show 74 percent of drug users and 83"
"women and those dealing with addiction. Stevens was ordained in June 1991 and delivered her first child the following month. After her ordination, Stevens began working at the Church of the Resurrection in Franklin, Tennessee, continuing her work with those in need. When in 1995, the Chaplain of St. Augustine’s Chapel at Vanderbilt retired, Stevens accepted the post. She founded Magdalene in 1997, a two-year residential program for former prostitutes overcoming addiction(s) and wanting to restart their lives. In 2001, she started Thistle Farms, which employs the same group of women to make home and body products sold in stores"
"to provide sober living support services for men re-entering the work force. In 1980, they opened a women-only facility, Chrysalis, in Oakland. In 1981, they opened Cronin House, a co-ed residential treatment program in Hayward. Keith Lewis became executive director in 1986, and introduced their first detoxification program, Palm Avenue Detox, in San Mateo. In 1989, with funding from Alameda County, they created an alcohol dependency prevention program, CommPre. This program was expanded to now incorporate tobacco, marijuana, prescription drugs and over-the-counter medication abuse. In 1992, HSI began operating a men’s detox and treatment program in San Jose. The Bascom"
"(founder of the Hanly Centre for Addiction in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland in 1978), Ita McCraith, Joan McGowan and Kay Duffy. Carl Berkeley also played a pivotal role in the Association's beginnings [1]. Ursula O'Farrell was Cathaoirleach of the Irish Association for Counselling from 1991 to 1995, which became the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy Ursula O'Farrell set up her own private practice in the early 1980s, having successfully completed a two-year Diploma in Psychology at UCD. ‘""I was a fledgling counsellor … It was thrilling, I loved every busy minute of it … but it was terrifying too"".’ [2]"
"In 1992, Father Canice Connors was appointed as the third president of Saint Luke Institute. A psychologist, Connors was the former president of Southdown, a Church-run psychiatric hospital near Toronto that originally specialized in treating alcoholism and depression, and which Connors had led to focus on treating child molesters using a twelve-step program aimed not at cure, but at recovery, similar to the view of Alcoholics Anonymous toward alcoholism. Connors was himself a victim of child abuse from an older man. Connors’ tenure in the early 1990s coincided with the rise of the child sexual abuse scandal in the US,"
"him and Bill and Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign of 1992. As Second Lady, Gore served as Mental Health Policy Advisor to the President. Her goals were to diminish the stigma surrounding mental illness and to bring awareness to the need for affordable mental health care. In 1999, Gore hosted the first White House Conference on Mental Health. That same year, she launched the National Mental Health Awareness Campaign (NMHAC) to encourage Americans to seek treatment for mental illness. Gore has frequently spoken about her own experience with depression and treatment following the near-fatal injury of her son Albert."
"started by recovering drug addicts in 1979. She worked hard to expand outreach and educational programs for HIV/AIDS infected drug users, prostitutes, and Parolee Aftercare Relapse Prevention support groups. She assembled bleach kits to decontaminate syringes and distribute them, along with condoms, to IV drug users. She started setting up information tables in Williamsburg and Bushwick in Brooklyn, New York, East Harlem in Manhattan, and Hunts Point/Mott Haven in South Bronx. Serrano said of her work:I'm there to provide the addicts with information. It bothers me when they're sticking needles in their arms, but I feel protective. I live my"
"as Meri Bell), played integral roles in encouraging former First Lady Betty Ford to establish the Betty Ford Center. Bell was Ford's sponsor in Alcoholics Anonymous. Ford's obituary in USA Today related developments after she received hospital treatment for recovering alcoholics: Ford was encouraged to help other drug and alcohol addicts as part of her therapy, but Bell's husband, the late Del Sharbutt, Eisenhower [Medical Center] board President John Sinn and Chairwoman Dolores Hope sought to integrally involve the Fords in their medical center. ""After she got out of treatment,"" Sharbutt told The Desert Sun in the 1990s, ""Dolores [Hope]"
"Codey became First Lady upon her husband's succession to the governors office, after former Governor Jim McGreevey resigned. She continued teaching school part time during her service. As First Lady, she was known for her work in mental health, postpartum depression and breast cancer. She married Richard Codey in 1981. She suffered from postpartum depression following the birth of her oldest son. She said she did not get over it until a year after her son's birth. She controlled the illness with medication, which she stopped using during her second pregnancy. To combat the depression during her pregnancy she underwent"
"Jeanne-d'Arc Bouchard Sister Jeanne-d'Arc Bouchard (born 1929 in Sainte-Hedwidge) is a Québécoise nun and nurse. In 1945, at the age of sixteen, Jeanne-d'Arc Bouchard joined the Augustinian congregation of the Mercy of Jesus of Roberval, Quebec. In 1953 she graduated as a nurse and worked with alcoholics and drug addicts. In the 1960s Bouchard initiated the first public program that supported the families of her patients. Until 1989, she was in charge of the Rehabilitation Unit at Hôtel-Dieu de Roberval. Sister Bouchard was a pioneer in the rehabilitation of alcohol and drug addicts in Canada. In 1992 she was the"