When it comes to “success,” let’s talk

Valerie Slaymaker is chief academic officer and provost of Hazelden’s Graduate School of Addiction Studies and also serves as Executive Director of the Butler Center for Research at Hazelden
The conversation starts out innocently enough. Small talk. In the grocery checkout, at a social gathering, or on a flight. Once it’s out that I work at an [...]

Survey finds sharp drop in children’s bullying

There’s been a sharp drop in the percentage of America’s children being bullied or beaten up by their peers, according to a new national survey by experts who believe anti-bullying programs are having an impact.

What medications are safe to use in recovery?

by Anna Bjork, Clinical Nursing Supervisor at Hazelden in Center City
If there is one question that I am asked regularly by patients, it is “What medications are safe to use in recovery?”
The answer is this: All medications have the potential to be abused, some much more than others.
The first thing you should do is be [...]