My Story

Hazelden's My Story podcast features gifted speakers in recovery telling their moving, motivational stories of experience, strength, and hope to those in treatment at Hazelden's Center City, Minnesota facility. For the first time in history, Hazelden is making these highly inspirational first hand accounts available to everyone in need of fellowship and support when recovering from addiction.

By joining the My Story podcast, you will get access to these audio stories. By using our podcasting technology, you'll have the option to download them to your computer, subscribe and listen through iTunes or other podcasting software, and sync them with your iPod or portable player of choice. Then, each week we will send you two new episodes of stories for automatic syncing with your podcasting software.

About Hazelden: We Transform Lives

For individuals, families, and communities struggling with addiction to alcohol and other drugs, Hazelden (a nonprofit organization) helps people transform their lives by providing the highest quality addiction treatment and continuing care services, education, research, and publishing products available today.

Since its 1949 founding in a rural Minnesota lakeside farmhouse, Hazelden has grown into one of the world's largest, most respected, and best-known private alcohol and drug addiction treatment centers in the world. Thousands of people from all 50 states and 42 foreign countries have turned to Hazelden to find expertise, quality care, and leading authorities on addiction and recovery issues. Our mission today remains the same as our early founders had dreamed - to help alcoholics and addicts who need help.

You will find Hazelden involved in many aspects of addiction treatment and recovery through:

• Treatment & Continuing Care Services
• Professional Education & Training Programs
• International Publishing
• Leading-Edge Addiction Research
• Public Policy Advocacy

Our Mission

Hazelden will help more people sustain lifelong recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. We will accomplish this through a commitment to treatment, publishing, education, research, public advocacy and shared learning with other organizations.

Our Vision

All who seek recovery will find it and the stigma of addiction will be overcome.

Our Values

• Treat the whole person, as well as the illness.
• Treat every person with dignity and respect.
• Continue a commitment to the Twelve Step fellowship.
• Be of service.
• Remain open to innovation.

Our organization supports these initiatives because treatment works and makes a difference in the lives of individuals, families and entire communities.