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Ready for Rehab
Whether or not an addict enters recovery as a result of an intervention, a court mandate, or a personal choice, the important thing is that they get there, right? Actress Elizabeth M., one of the...
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A&E's Intervention TV Show - Michelle from New Jersey
UPDATE: Here is a photo of Michelle's joyful reunion in California with her daughters. On August 22, 2011 the "Michelle” episode of Emmy-winning TV series Intervention premieres on A&E....
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Laurie Armstrong Kelsoe: Battling Meth
Laurie arrived at Malibu Beach Recovery Center in January 2010 at the urging of her brother, the late Russell Armstrong. Russell was a venture capitalist, originally from Dallas with plush office in...
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Ian C: I suffered from depression and anxiety for almost my entire life
At Malibu Beach Recovery Center we are really proud of the success we have had helping clients whose primary diagnosis is clinical depression (often coupled with severe anxiety), and whose secondary...
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Shannon S: From Xanax to Yoga
Our #2 yoga teacher is the lovely, soft-spoken 36-year-old Shannon S. She recently celebrated one year as an employee of Malibu Beach Recovery Center and the third anniversary of her decision to walk...
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Edward S.: I Was Addicted to Prescription Pills for 10 Years
The Los Angeles Times today published the first article in a comprehensive investigative series entitled "Dying for Relief." Reporters Lisa Girion and Scott Glover first came to talk about the...
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Edward S. Follow-Up: Now There's a Smile on My Mom's Face
I recently wrote about Malibu Beach Recovery Center’s cooperation with Los Angeles Times reporters Lisa Girion and Scott Glover who spent two years researching every aspect of the prescription drug...
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Krissie Bergo Follow-Up: Detoxing from Suboxone
In June 2011 we wrote about Krissie Bergo, a workers’ comp claimant who was admitted to Malibu Beach Recovery Center in September 2008. She had carpel tunnel syndrome and, as a result of four botched...
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CURES Funding Bill Passes California State Senate with Help from Malibu Beach...
On May 29, 2013 two-thirds of the California State Senate voted to resurrect CURES, the State's nearly moribund online real-time narcotics database. The victory was due in some small part to the...
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Ronni G: Now I Have Purpose in My Life
On December 27, 2012, one month after Malibu Beach Recovery Center opened The Brentwood House as our second alcohol and drug treatment center, Ronni G walked through the front door. At 70 she was the...
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Ian C Follow Up: 2 Years Sober and Succeeding in Grad School
Ian was a law school student at Georgetown when he dropped out and moved into his mother’s basement. He isolated himself from life there for 6 months in deep depression, smoking marijuana non-stop....
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Casie W: Stubbornly Determined to Achieve Long-Term Sobriety
I remember trying to coax Casie into treatment. It was February 2013. She described herself, at 25, as a long-term drug addict, who had spent several years of her adolescence in a Utah facility for...
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David F: A Midwest Union Member Finds Addiction Recovery in Malibu
David first called October 1, 2012. On the surface, he seemed an unlikely fit. A soft-spoken, 37-year-old, small-town Indiana union member who had just escaped from a local treatment center. He...
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Harriet M: Whitney Houston's Death Was My Wake-Up Call
I first heard from Harriet on the morning of March 13, 2012. The 50 year old Brooklyn housewife with Barbra Streisand’s accent, was at a treatment facility in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley. She...
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Kevin M: An Alaskan Finds Recovery from Drugs and Alcohol in Sunny Malibu...
If not for the persistence of his mom Stacey, Kevin M. might never have become a client at Malibu Beach Recovery Center, where he spent 90 days in treatment. I first heard from Stacey on February 6,...
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Marci H: Anger Management Paved the Road to Sobriety
On July 21, 2009 MBRC Counselor Ellery Holesapple waited for Marci outside the Alaska Air baggage claim at LAX. And waited. And waited. Finally he called to report Marci must have missed the plane....
View ArticleEdward S: Two and a Half Years of Sobriety and Livin' the Life
Edward S. is livin' the life. He is a senior at Cal State Northridge, majoring in kinesiology. Next year he will apply to grad school, aiming to get his PhD as a physical therapist. Since Addiction...
View ArticleKevin's Mom: Unaware My Son Had an Addiction Problem
We hear from the mother of an addict on her experiences Like many Malibu Beach Recovery Center parents, Stacey was clueless that her son Kevin had become addicted to alcohol, methamphetamine, and...
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Malibu Beach Recovery Center Alum Casey B: Off to the Races
Recovery center alum hits the track for high-octane action Casey B. is an alumnus of Malibu Beach Recovery Center. As can be seen by the photographs of Casey’s racecar, we are sponsoring him in the...
View ArticleMalibu Beach Recovery Center Alumni Speak Out
Hear from addicts who found the help they needed at MBRC Eight years ago we began training staff in preparation for the opening of what is now the Malibu Beach Recovery Center, one of the first U.S....
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