Who We Are

FOUNDATION OF THE ROSENTHAL CENTER

The Rosenthal Center was established within the Phoenix House Foundation in 2007, under the leadership of Mitchell S. Rosenthal, M.D, founder of Phoenix House. Over the following years the Center undertook a limited number of projects to advance clinical practice and contribute meaningfully to public policy. In 2015, Dr. Rosenthal resigned his role as part of the Foundation’s leadership team and the organization’s principal spokesman to head a now independent Rosenthal Center.

OUR MISSION

The mission of the Rosenthal Center, as defined today, is to meet the informational needs of men, women, and families grappling with addiction, of behavioral healthcare professionals in the treatment field, and of those policy makers whose decisions determine availability of and access to clinical and social services for the victims of addiction. Reflecting its Phoenix House origins, the Center brings to this mission a special concern for the most vulnerable victims of addiction, whose broad ranging needs present a critical challenge to the priorities of the nation’s health care reform initiatives.

What dictates the Center’s efforts are today’s changing patterns of drug use and those—often flawed and misinformed—perceptions of drug use, addiction, and recovery that influence behavior, shape policy, and may determine treatment strategies. Initiatives of the Center will include surveys, studies, colloquia, publication, and a forceful presence on the Internet, social media, and broadcast and cable news outlets.