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St Jude Retreats Reveals Addiction Treatment Industry Possess Healthy … San Francisco Chronicle In a recent blog post, Acadia Healthcare Company paid $ 90 million for Timberline Knolls an inpatient treatment program in Chicago whose profit margins were "through the roof." The report notes that the addiction treatment industry is not only … and more »

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Addiction & Consciousness–Dr. David Hawkins – Sir David Ramon Hawkins, MD, Ph.D., affectionately called “Doc,” died peacefully at home in Sedona, Arizona, on September 19, 2012, at the age of 85. He was born on June 3, 1927, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; he had been a resident of Sedona since 1979. He is survived by his wife Susan J. Hawkins of Sedona, step-daughter Sarah J. Humphrey (Josh Spradling), and step-granddaughter Evren L. Spradling of Peoria, Arizona. Dr. Hawkins was renowned as a physician, author, lecturer, and researcher of consciousness. After serving in the US Navy during WWII, he graduated from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1953. For the next 25 years, he lived in New York, where his pioneering work as a psychiatrist brought major clinical breakthroughs, especially in the treatment of schizophrenia and alcoholism. His research findings were published widely in medical, scientific, and psychoanalytic journals. As Medical Director of the North Nassau Mental Health Center (1956–1980) and Director of Research at Brunswick Hospital (1968–1979) on Long Island, he had the largest practice in New York. Dr. Hawkins also served as a psychiatric advisor to Catholic, Protestant, and Buddhist monasteries. In 1973, he co-authored Orthomolecular Psychiatry with Nobel Laureate chemist Linus Pauling, initiating a new field within psychiatry and leading to appearances on The Today Show, The Barbara Walters Show, and The Mcneil/Leher News Hour. Dr. Hawkins spent the last three decades of his life in Arizona, working …