560 Cohasset Road, Suite 180, Chico, CA 95926
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The Butte County Sobering Center, located in Chico, CA, provides drug, alcohol, and support services. It is a 12- bed co-ed facility—staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Our sobering unit was specifically designed to assist those needing immediate sobering services. Your stay is voluntary, and you can stay up to 23 hours and 59 minutes. If you’d like to continue to another level of treatment, we can help with that. It’s not a requirement, and there is no pressure.
This program is an alternative to incarceration or hospitalization for individuals under the influence of alcohol or other drugs.
Case Study: Saving Lives and Resources at New Rural Sobering Center in Butte County An emergency visit or arrest for public intoxication often results in expensive, avoidable personal and societal cost. The individual is left with hospital or legal bills and fines, and the community has used expensive healthcare, law enforcement, and court resources to….click to read more
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Medical Director - CA Sobering Programs, MD
Last reviewed: September 2026
Elizabeth is a northern Midwesterner who moved to California to attend Internal Medicine residency at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Her work at the county hospital (San Francisco General) reinforced her interest in creating novel social pathways to healing. She went on to complete…
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