An intensive four-week residential treatment program for people who are serious about recovering from alcoholism and drug addiction.
For 35 years, the Anderson Program has consistently operated with a 75% or better success rate. Most treatment programs have 20% or less success when measured against at least one year of continuous sobriety after discharge (no alcohol or drugs used at all). This accounts for the loyal support we have always had from individuals whom we helped. This is also why our former mainland corporate clients used us for so many years. They included GM, American Motors, Chrysler, and Oscar Mayer Company.
Based in the small town of Honoka‘a on the Big Island of Hawaii, Anderson Recovery Center offers a tranquil tropical environment where our residents can focus on their recovery while enjoying the natural beauty and activities of North Hawaii and the Big Island. Honoka‘a offers many opportunities for adventure while the larger cities of Hilo and Kailua-Kona are only 1 hour away.
Anderson Recovery Center works towards providing:
- A motivation to understand and achieve lasting sobriety
- A sense of genuine happiness
- A new appreciation of the good in other people and oneself
- A freedom from obsession with alcohol and other drugs
- A desire to become useful and whole
Residents’ Home
Anderson Recovery Center
The only state licensed, residential,
Big Island recovery center.
What makes us so effective?
- We assign only 2 residents to a primary counselor. No other program provides this low ratio. Our staff has had years of training and experience in the Anderson Program. Our policy is for our counselors and lecturers to have a minimum of ten years of sobriety, and all primary counselors are state certified.
- Every resident is seen at a minimum by his or her primary counselor for an hour in the morning and a half hour in the afternoon, five days per week. The half hour session gives the counselor an opportunity to address any concerns that may have arisen during the day. This also gives the counselor better insight into the resident’s needs for the next day’s sessions.
- Anderson Recovery Center’s team of consultants (physician, dietitian, psychologist, registered nurse and clergyman) works closely with primary staff guaranteeing a unified treatment approach. The team provides an additional five hours per week of complementary counseling.
- Lecturers and group discussions are held three times per day. Each lecture is part of a planned progression of ideas, developing a sound philosophy of life (of the residents' own choice) based on universal values and truths. The logical thinking learned from this can then be extended into all aspects of their lives.
- Anderson Recovery Center has a unique concept of how the unconscious works. It gives the individual tools to help promote a healthy self-esteem. A fuller explanation can be accessed in our founder’s book, "Stake Your Claim to Happiness"(www.stakeyourclaimtohappiness.com)
- Our special series of unique, copyrighted lectures were written by our founder to train 150 psychiatrists in the Soviet Union at the University of Moscow Medical School. The doctors (all of whom were raised as atheists in the Stalin era) unanimously agreed that spirituality and its components as defined and explained by Mr. Anderson had persuaded them that these elements are an integral part of our human make up and are a key to addiction recovery.
