Our treatment facility at Cottonwood Tucson has a unique location in the Sonoran Desert, sharing a striking landscape that stretches all the way to Mexico. Why did we pick this location for a residential treatment facility? The desert, especially the deserts of Arizona, have many unique benefits. Arizona’s desert history is rich with spirituality and...Read More

In the United States there are many families that are impoverished and require government assistance. In fact, at the end of 2012 there were 109,631,000 Americans who lived in households that received welfare benefits, according to the United States Census Bureau. In the last five years, nearly two dozen states have begun drug testing welfare...Read More

In the last decade it became a lot harder to manufacture methamphetamine in the United States. There was a time when the majority of meth used by Americans was produced in clandestine labs across the country. Efforts to curb the problem came mostly in the form of restrictions on products that contained pseudoephedrine – the...Read More

Next month the DEA will be putting a ban into effect on the controversial “bath salts” until proper research can be conducted on such products. “Bath salts” have made the news several times this year as a result of the spike in emergency room visits related to people’s consumption of the drugs. These are not...Read More