Hazelden Betty Ford's flagship Center City campus in Minnesota is one of the world's largest and most influential private non-profit addiction treatment centers. Founded in 1949, pioneered the Minnesota Model. 500-acre campus with residential treatment, extended care, detox, family programming, and a graduate school in addiction studies.

Best for

Adults and youth needing residential addiction treatment at a world-class facility with the depth and infrastructure of the original Minnesota Model.

Modalities

Depth elements

Developed the Minnesota Model — the multidisciplinary approach treating addiction as physical, psychological, and spiritual disease requiring integrated care. The model's insistence on spiritual dimensions, use of recovering peers as therapeutic agents, and long history of treating the whole person align with depth-oriented principles.

Populations served

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