It is well known that Brighton Hospital Foundation, founded in 1948 and incorporated in 1950, can easily claim to be one of America's first addiction treatment hospitals.

It was also the first in Michigan.

What may be less well known is that Brighton's founder, Harry Henderson, had much help and involvement in the establishment of Brighton Hospital from Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.

	Harry Henderson, Marty Mann, Bill Wilson

Even more fascinating and supportive of Brighton Hospital's claim to have pioneered the treatment of addictions in North America is the fact that the same community leaders, lawyers, judges, physicians and political leaders who were founding trustees of Brighton Hospital had already amassed nearly a decade of 12 step substance abuse experience by 1950! Brighton's predecessor institution, the Bloomfield Hills Sanatorium founded in 1943, was established by the same board under the aegis of the Michigan Alcoholic Rehabilitation Foundation incorporated in 1950. So, accounting for the name change and the fact that the demand for treatment caused the same organization to outgrow its original location in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Brighton in fact preceeded the earliest of other rehabilitation centers by at least seven years, and was open and actively treating soldiers returning home with serious drinking problems and post traumatic stress from World War II.

Demand was so strong that the board of the Michigan Alcoholic Rehabilitation Foundation foresaw the need for a spacious campus, and acquired the present 92 acres east of the city of Brighton by 1953. The site was home to Glen Lore Manor, a women's home established in the 1930s. From that point on, we were known as Brighton Hospital. The rest is history.

Guest Speaker Cornelius James Finnen, Esq. gives a talk at Brighton Tune-up and receives his 40 year coin from Jean McGrath, herself clean and sober for 41 years after receiving treatment at Brighton Hospital.

Adult male child of an Alcoholic veteran of WW2 and Korean conflict recalls his father's return to lifelong sobriety after care at Brighton Hospital and steadfast 12 step work after discharge.