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| - | '''Elizabeth Ann Bloomer Warren Ford''' (April 8, 1918 – July 8, 2011), better known as '''Betty Ford''', was the wife of former [[President of the United States|United States President]] [[Gerald Ford]] and served as the [[First Lady of the United States]] from 1974 to 1977. | + | An '''opioid''' is a chemical that works by binding to [[opioid receptor]]s, which are found principally in the [[central nervous system|central]] and [[peripheral nervous system]] and the [[gastrointestinal tract]]. The receptors in these organ systems mediate both the beneficial effects and the [[adverse effect|side effects]] of opioids. |
| - | In 1978, the Ford family staged an [[intervention (counseling)|intervention]] and forced her to confront her alcoholism and an addiction to [[opioid]] [[analgesic]]s that had been prescribed in the early 1960s for a pinched nerve. "I liked alcohol," she wrote in her 1987 memoir. "It made me feel warm. And I loved pills. They took away my tension and my pain". In 1982, after her recovery, she established the [[Betty Ford Center]] in [[Rancho Mirage, California|Rancho Mirago]], [[California]], for the treatment of chemical dependency. She co-authored with [[Chris Chase]] a 1987 book about her treatment, ''Betty: A Glad Awakening''. In 2003, Ford produced another book, ''Healing and Hope: Six Women from the Betty Ford Center Share Their Powerful Journeys of Addiction and Recovery''. | ||
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| - | In 2005, Ford relinquished her chairmanship of the center's board of directors to her daughter, Susan. She had held the top post at the center since its founding. Gerald Ford good-naturedly joked about how Betty had been Chairman of the Board while he had only been a President. | ||
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An opioid is a chemical that works by binding to opioid receptors, which are found principally in the central and peripheral nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract. The receptors in these organ systems mediate both the beneficial effects and the side effects of opioids.
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