American Addiction Centers in the News

AAC’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Lawrence Weinstein, was featured in an illuminating article in Behavioral Health Business magazine discussing how crucial support for sleep issues is for behavioral health treatment providers. Sleep disorders such as insomnia that lead to decreased sleep and sleep quality, have a bidirectional relationship with mental health: each worsens the other. […]

American Addiction Centers’ Co-CEOs, David Hans and Ellen-Jo Boschert, were featured in Behavioral Health Business magazine discussing their rare CEO partnership and the unique opportunity they have to start “a new book” for AAC. Boschert and Hans both spoke of the positive energy they felt upon their first meeting in 2022. There’s just some people […]

Fran-Meyers Routt, Clinical Director at River Oaks Treatment Center, is a featured expert in this Behavioral Health Business article. Routt discusses with reporter Morgan Gonzalez the importance of trauma-informed care for those living with addiction. There is a clear link between early trauma and an increased risk of the development of substance use disorders, so […]

In a heartbreaking op-ed that far too many people can relate to, American Addiction Center’s Managing Editor, Laura Close, details the complicated grief of losing a parent to addiction. She describes feeling as though she lost her mother twice, once to her alcohol use disorder and then again when she passed away in 2023. This […]

In this intriguing article featured in U.S. Veterans Magazine, we learn about a new approach to helping Veterans break through trauma and repressed emotions: horseback psychotherapy (clinically known as psychotherapy incorporating equine, or PIE). PIE takes equine-assisted therapy—which involves individuals working with horses, often grooming or feeding them, or simply being in their presence—a step […]