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Top Rehab Facilities: The Coziest, Most Expensive Clinics

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Getty 020812 BettyFordCenter?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1328729099255Eric Thayer/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — With A-list celebrities in and out of rehab, it’s becoming hard to keep track of the nation’s top recovery facilities — and of course, what kind of luxurious amenities they offer. Here’s a look at the country’s coziest and most expensive clinics for the rich and famous.

Promises Treatment Center
With centers in Malibu, Calif., and Los Angeles, Promises could be considered the most A-list rehab facility in the United States. They offer clients residential and extended-care treatment that includes life coaching, anger management and even equine and art therapy. Promises uses the “Malibu Model,” which allows clients more freedom, allowing them to leave the facility, compared to other rehab clinics where clients can’t leave the grounds and visitors are limited.
Famous alumni: Lindsay Lohan, Charlie Sheen, Britney Spears

The Betty Ford Center
The famed center, which was founded in 1982 by the late U.S. first lady, offers inpatient, outpatient and day treatment. The Rancho Mirage-based center has 100 beds available for patients. In addition to a detox program and an intensive outpatient program, the center offers programs for children of alcoholics and for young adults. The center is largely funded by private donations, the Betty Ford Center Foundation, and alumni of the program.
Famous alumni: Robert Downey Jr., Kelsey Grammer, Stevie Nicks, Elizabeth Taylor

Cirque Lodge
Founded in 1999 in Sundance, Utah, Cirque Lodge holds a maximum of 56 patients between two facilities. Another center is based in Orem, Utah. Based on Alcoholics Anonymous’ (AA) traditional 12-step program, Cirque will cost patients $1,595 a day, with a 30-day minimum stay. The Sundance facility sits in the shadow of Utah’s 12,000-foot Mount Timpanogos and is in the same neighborhood as Robert Redford’s estate. Rooms at the Lodge reportedly boast marble bathrooms with jacuzzi tubs, while the facility also owns a seven-seater helicopter that can take guests up to view the mountains. Still, it’s not all fun and games: clients are under strict rules while residing at Cirque. Prohibited items include cellphones, laptops and expensive jewelry.
Famous alumni: Kirsten Dunst, Eva Mendes, Mary-Kate Olsen

Passages Rehab Facility
Co-founded by father and son team Chris and Pax Prentiss, Passages Rehab Facility is popular with the celebrity set because of its Malibu location, luxurious accommodations and 3-to-1 staff-to-client ratio. The philosophy of the center differs from others in that it does not view addiction as a disease, but treats “addiction for what it truly is; a symptom of a deeper underlying issue,” such as low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, among others.
Famous alumni: Andy Dick, David Hasselhoff and Stephen Baldwin

Pasadena Recovery Center
Famous for being featured on VH1’s reality-based series Celebrity Rehab, Pasadena Recovery Center boasts that it offers “compassionate, comprehensive, and affordable treatment.” Taking a holistic approach, the center looks to treat clients with mental, physical and spiritual recovery.
Famous alumni: Janice Dickinson, Eric Roberts and Rachel Uchitel

Caron Foundation

Although Caron has nine centers across the U.S. and even one in Bermuda, the Wernersville, Pennsylvania-based facility is probably its best-known. Caron offers medical detoxification, residential assessment programs, gender-separate rehabilitation, and relapse treatment. The center also uses the “Minnesota Model” of treatment, which states that addiction is a lifelong disease and abstinence, via AA’s 12-step program, is the ideal route to a drug and alcohol-free life.
Famous clientele: beauty queen Tara Conner, Liza Minnelli and Steven Tyler

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