About Schick Shadel Hospital – Burien
Schick Shadel Hospital is located in Seattle, Washington. Schick Shadel Hospital’s medical counter conditioning helps patients lose the cravings for alcohol and/or drugs.
Schick Shadel Hospital was founded in 1935 by Charles A. Shadel. A pioneer of his time, Shadel understood what very few in his time knew: alcoholism is a disease, a neurological illness that is mentally and emotionally incredibly difficult to control or manage. Unlike many of his peers, Shadel understood that addiction was not a result of weak willpower or moral failure, but rather a physiological response to stimuli. He worked to treat addiction on the level that it existed: as part of a neurological response.