Addiction Treatment Industry Newswire |
11/13/2012 – ATIN – Over the years there has been an ever increasing crescendo of blogs, comments and news stories from across the world about people who can’t tear themselves away from their computer screens, a phenomenon that has come to be known in addiction treatment drug rehab alcohol rehab ![]() New Residential Center In what is probably the biggest evidence yet that the Net addiction therapeutic specialty has arrived is that there is now a residential center devoted exclusively to treating the affliction that, by all accounts, is growing by leaps and bounds. Behind reStart – “disconnect…and find yourself” – are two highly experienced and obviously entrepreneurially minded therapists, co-CEOs Dr Hilarie Cash and Cosette Rae. The new addiction treatment center is located in Fall City, WA and is of the type of center pioneered in Malibu – not at all institutional and located on what appears to be a lovely residential property with All Info, All-the-Time In a famous scene from a 1970s Woody Allen movie, the comic is standing in line with Diane Keaton having an argument about some aspect of then famous media critic Marshall “the medium is the message” McLuhan Promising Start And reStart appears to be off to a promising start. The center was featured recently on famed TV journalist Brian Williams’s new prime time news magazine, a tried, true and tested way for addictions centers to quickly get a jump cable like boost. The founder of the high-end addictions business as we know it today, Sierra Tucson’s Bill O’Donnell, was featured in a path breaking Fortune cover on addicted execs, which led to a Phil Donahue show appearance which, many years later, helped lead to the sale of Sierra Tucson to CRC for what still remains, almost a decade later, the record price ever paid for a single treatment center. read our report on how Sierra Tucson’s lengendary founder used national media POST YOUR COMMENTS BELOW..start a debate! GOT ADDICTION INDUSTRY NEWS? tell us… |