Phoenix House is a nonprofit drug and alcohol rehabilitation organization operating in ten states with 150 programs.
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11 Facts About Phoenix House
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Phoenix House was founded in 1967 by six heroin addicts who met at a detoxification program in a New York hospital.
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The most obvious Synanon methods used within the Phoenix House program are the stripping of your identity on admission, encounter groups, work-based treatment.
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Phoenix House played a role in creating the country's first correctional treatment unit, a model now widely replicated in prisons throughout the country and abroad.
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Phoenix House was an early provider of treatment as an alternative to prison.
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In 1983, Phoenix House opened its first Phoenix House Academy, a residential high school where teens receive substance abuse treatment as well as daily on-site academic education.
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Phoenix House treated adolescents in various facilities until 2015, when their Descanso, CA location, which opened in 1986, closed after numerous reports were investigated by San Diego County Department of Social Services, with whom Phoenix House had contracts for nearly twenty years.
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Phoenix House Descanso announced a week after that incident that they were closing the facility for financial reasons.
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Phoenix House offers wraparound services, home-based case management, and recovery support.
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Phoenix House has served Florida since the early 1990s, treating Tampa adolescents and adults at their Derek Jeter Center and Adult Outpatient Counseling Center, respectively.
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Phoenix House was established in the UK as an entirely separate organisation, though has its origins in the USA-based Phoenix House described above.
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