Aureus was originally founded as Addiction Recovery Professionals (ARP) in 2002 to improve recovery rates from addiction to alcohol and drugs.

• As we mention throughout this website, we help families and advisors develop effective, long-term intervention and recovery strategies as well as provide guidance on navigating the often complicated and confusing treatment process.

This includes intervention, assessment, treatment selection, treatment communication, and post-treatment planning and monitoring.  We are not a treatment center, instead, we help families find quality treatment centers for their loved ones,

Our goals in founding ARP were threefold:

• To understand why physicians and airline pilots have very high first time recovery rates and how to apply the principles of their programs to other population groups to obtain improved outcomes.  (Outcome rates for the general population are low.)
• To focus on providing support for families beyond the intervention, as most families play important roles in supporting long-term recovery.  (Families are often told to “let go”, which is a mistake under most circumstances.)
• To provide families with help by licensed, degreed, addiction professionals when addressing addiction in loved ones.  (Most interventionists are not licensed nor graduates of recognized academic institutions.)

After eight years of experience, we added a fourth goal: to educate families about our New Recovery Model.

In our article, Recommendations for Recovery, Systems Changes and Governance Practices, we discuss how we apply the FAA/Airline and Medical Board programs for pilots and physicians to other population groups. 

• We also discuss how our New Model differs from the existing treatment from a Systems perspective.  (See below for more on both topics.)

Many people ask why treatment is often not successful.  Our New Model and Systems discussions explain how to improve treatment outcomes. 

We changed our name from ARP to Aureus in response to requests from clients and their advisors for a more anonymous name – one that did not have the word “addiction” in the title.