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Pasadena Recovery Center’s Speaker Series Presents  Interventionist Ed Storti on  November 12 th   Hosted by Mackenzie Phillips Interventionist Ed Storti to Discuss His Innovative Storti Model                                   Pasadena Recovery Center is pleased to welcome Ed Storti to their groundbreaking speaker series on Tuesday November 12 th  at 12pm. Ed will be doing a presentation on his innovative Storti Model – A remarkably successful method of addiction intervention which has been developed over the past 32 years. The model itself is based on the concept of creating a positive atmosphere during an intervention rather than a negative one, and focuses on presenting the treatment as a gift to the addicted individual. The Storti model has proven extremely effective in encouraging patients to seek immediate help with their dependencies, and does so in a compa...

PRESS RELEASE May 1, 2012, 6:00 a.m. EDT "Rehab With Dr. Drew" Returns To VH1 To Directly Help Young Adults With Their Addiction Issues For me, there are no finish lines. No recovered, just recovering. -- Bill Clegg, from Ninety Days LOS ANGELES, May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- VH1 and Dr. Drew has started production today on a sixth installment of "Rehab with Dr. Drew" to directly address alcohol and drug addiction among young adults, the largest group afflicted by addiction issues in the U.S. According to the 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reports that an estimated 23.1 million American who were 12 or older needed treatment for drug and alcohol abuse that year, while only 2.6 million received treatment in a specialty facility. Another source, the 2009 Treatment Episode Data Set, which gathers information on persons admitted to publicly funded treatme...