Betty Ford will be known as a pioneer in the field of alcohol and addiction rehabilitation centers as well as a sober woman who embraced the 12 step recovery program. Read more

Dirk Hanson at thefix.com writes:

The Wall Street Journal quotes appropriately from her book A Glad Awakening, where Ford writes that addiction “impacts women faster and more intensely, so when we finally seek help—and we hide in our denial longer than men do—we’re sicker physically and emotionally.”