John Curtiss, a former Hazelden patient and executive, became frustrated with the rising cost of treatment for drug and alcohol addiction and set off with others to create a more affordable program. “We went in a direction nobody was going – simpler, more affordable” said Curtiss, shown standing in front of “The Retreat,” a former nuns’ campus in Wayzata’s Big Woods. A one-month stay in the residential treatment program costs about $4,000 or about one-seventh of the cost of a medical treatment facility.
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