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I just celebrated 2 years Nicotine and Tobacco free on January 16, 2013

While sobriety remains the most important aspect of my life “we are not a glum lot “

In May 2011, I quit my job, sold my car and said farewell to a host of friends and family and took a flight from Los Angeles, California to Paris, France.

I am officially here to learn French, but that is but a side benefit to sharing a new life experience my significant other, who happens to be French!

RECOVERY IS INTERNATIONAL.  The “City of Lights” has a huge English Speaking Recovery Community that has embraced and welcomed me.

THANK YOU ….. PASADENA RECOVERY CENTER and A POWER GREATER THAN MYSELF THAT BLESSED THE BROKEN ROAD THE LED ME STRAIGHT TO YOU
Gratefully,
Kemo Douglas Newsome

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Counseling is universally described as “superb” and residents rave about the “dedicated” counselors and therapists onsite. Many still talk to them years later. The staff is undoubtedly P.R.C.’s bread and butter — which is a good thing

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Clients feel that there is ample support and recovery for those who seek it out. One former resident summed it up best: “If someone really wants help, they’ll have an awesome experience.”

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We just dug up a fantastic April, 2001 article, “Addiction Warriors,” from the Pasadena Star-News, about the opening of the Pasadena Recovery Center by the Bloom family:

The Pasadena Recovery Center opened Jan. 15 and offers a range of services centered around a 12-step approach to helping people overcome their addictions.

“Our idea is to really build a quality drug and alcohol treatment center where we really have people for a long enough time to make a difference,” said Dr. Lee Bloom, a longtime psychiatrist who invested his life savings into the center.

While a few things have changed in the last 11 years – amazingly, we’ve lowered our monthly cost by $1,000 – our philosophy remains the same:

Bloom said he wants to empower addicts to see themselves as capable of living a drug-free life.

“You do a lot of outside, external things, But what you are really looking for is an inner change in the individual, where they begin to look at themselves as somebody who can live without drugs and alcohol,” he said.

“That’s really, I think, the essence of the treatment, is to have people own that life is better without drugs and alcohol… Because life is really not all that terrible and all that fearful. Life is really good.”

Dr. Lee Bloom is missed but not forgotten as we continue to honor his legacy and practices at PRC.

Read the entire article

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This Crown City News video gives a great overview of the Pasadena Recovery Center (PRC). While the Center is famous for the many seasons of “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew” and will be featured again this September on “Rehab with Dr. Drew” which will concentrate on young adults rather than celebrities, the vast majority of the nearly 6,000 patients treated at PRC are regular folk that come from all walks of life. As Alison Triessl, daughter of the late PRC founder Dr. Lee Bloom, states:

“We will treat anybody from Yale to jail, Park Place to park bench. It’s a 98 bed facility, co-ed, men and women, from age 18 to 80, and we believe that treatment should be affordable.”

PRC is also a family run center. Dr. Bloom’s son and Alison’s brother, Michael Bloom, acts as CEO. In the video he explains some of the many activities that residents can participate in:

“We have yoga, we have acupuncture, art therapy, we have a gym. we play softball nearby, we go to the Rose Bowl. And then we have the traditional 12-step meetings that are on site, and we have group therapy with counseling, one-on-one therapy, and a family group. And we do have DirecTV for the residents.”

Finally the video stresses that while the majority of patients come from Los Angeles, the Center’s visibility through the Dr. Drew shows has brought many people seeking treatment from abroad — including from London, Macau, and Guam.

If you have any questions about the Pasadena Recovery Center or are seeking treatment please call us at (866) 663-3030.

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