Turning Point Centers’ new 14,000-square-foot drug and alcohol rehab facility in Sandy, Utah, is now open. We had an open house and ribbon-cutting event last week, and the turnout was fantastic. Special thanks go out to the Sandy Chamber of Commerce, the Sandy City Fire Department for attending. The new Bell Canyon Utah rehab facility … Read More
The Brains of Addicted People “have been modified by the drug in such a way that absence of the drug makes a signal to their brain that is equivilent to the signal of when you are starving, as if the individual was in a state of deprivation, where taking the drug is indispensable for survival. … Read More
We are very excited about our new drug and alcohol treatment center. It’s a much larger facility with an indoor racquetball court, barn on site (great for equine therapy) and sits on 5 1/2 acres! Plenty of room to grow. Our program and philosophy will stay the same we will just have more opportunities to … Read More
Had to speak at my son’s school today to a business class. I did some research to take in and found some crazy statistics on teen drug abuse! The most popular drugs used by teens are alcohol, marijuana, prescription drugs, inhalants, cocaine, heroin and ecstasy…in that order. It’s not good to see heroin even on … Read More
Click here for Clinic’s flier and details! We announced our first ever all-day, intense clinic designed for families and clients coming out of residential treatment. Markus, our family therapist genius, is heading up the clinic. I’m sure it will be very successful! He’s going to discuss things like “what to watch for before a relapse … Read More
Michael’s Intervention Follow Up Finally, our clip that was on A&E’s INTERVENTION is on their website! It was fun to watch and a pleasure to be involved with. Michael is doing incredibly well battling his disease of alcoholism! He’s been sober over 4 months now, is re-establishing his relationship with his beautiful daughter Bella, living … Read More
We were on A&E’s Intervention last night! It ended up being a double intervention show so not much was said about Turning Point Centers Center’s program.We only got a quick mention at the end but the recognition and working with their team was awesome! They’re putting a 7 minute video on their website about the … Read More
After 2 + years of working on trying to get on the show “Intervention” on A&E it finally happened! They were here yesterday and filmed the outside of our drug and alcohol treatment center. Today, after a successful intervention last night with a 35 year old man dependent on alcohol, they’re back and filming our … Read More
The following numbers are nasty! An area of concern is the nonmedical use of prescription drugs. Among 12th-graders, 8 of the 13 most commonly abused drugs (other than cigarettes and alcohol) were prescription medications, over half of which were given to them or were purchased from a friend or family member! According to the 2009 … Read More
We’re tired of hearing about all these young people doing speedballs! Speedballs are heroin and cocaine combined and they’re very dangerous. The reason this drug combination is so dangerous is because the two when mixed confuse the body. The cocaine raises the heart-rate…quickly and the heroin slows the heart-rate at the same time. The cocaine … Read More
