The Butler Center for Research at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation strives to support sustained recovery from the disease of addiction for all who seek help by: Advancing knowledge about addiction, ...

What is the Butler Center for Research? Through clinical and institutional research, scientists and other staff members at the Butler Center for Research ask the questions that lead to increasingly ...

The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation Referent Relations Team is your first point of contact when you want to get a client into drug and alcohol addiction treatment. The Referent Relations Team will work ...

The Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School offers a wide variety of opportunities to take your career to the next level. If you already work in the fields of addiction treatment or mental health ...

Two different types of activities—substance use and compulsive behavior—increase dopamine output, producing a "feel good" sensation that can trigger and reinforce addiction. Host William C. Moyers ...

Children who experience the trauma of parental addiction tend to blame themselves for what's happening. But caregivers and educators can help kids understand the truth: addiction is an illness that ...

Trazodone was developed in Italy in the 1960s as an antidepressant medication. Due to negative side effects associated with the drug early on—including dizziness, fainting, irregular heartbeat (and in ...

Why are opioids so addictive? What makes opioid drugs so lethal? Is rehab effective for opioid addiction? From the frontlines of the nation’s opioid epidemic, psychiatrist Marvin D. Seppala, MD, joins ...

About one in four Americans experience bouts of sleeplessness each year.1 That's roughly 81 million people. Naturally, a large subsection of that 81 million will look to address its sleep issues with ...

The ability to manage our emotional responses is a skill that can be improved with practice. We're not born with the ability to regulate our emotions. (Case in point: Have you ever witnessed a toddler ...

People in active addiction to alcohol and drugs use despite the harmful physical effects. Marvin D. Seppala, MD, joins host William C. Moyers to discuss the disease of addiction and the role of ...

Host William C. Moyers speaks with four of his brilliant colleagues about the state of the fentanyl epidemic. Now linked to 70 percent of overdose deaths, the drug is appearing in non-opioids like ...