Demystifying the Betty Ford Clinic: an immersion experience

1. The purpose of the Betty Ford Clinic (BFC) Professional in Residence (PIR) Inpatient Program is to increase participants' understanding and awareness of chemical dependency and its treatment. 2. Current alcoholism treatment is a combination of medical, psychosocial, psychological, and spiritual modalities interacting in a framework designed to help the individual achieve and sustain sobriety (Collins, 1993); all of these treatment components are evident in the BFC Model. 3. Double-blind studies are not conducted at the BFC for ethical reasons, which are one of the many difficulties inherent in the use of conventional control designs for assessing the treatment effectiveness of residential drug abuse programs (De Leon, Inciardi, & Martin, 1995).