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A Guiding Light for Four Decades
A History of the Johnson Institute
The Johnson Institute (JI) represents
a long history of encouraging and
perfecting more appropriate and
timely responses to alcoholism and
drug addiction. Its leadership in the
chemical dependency field spans 40
years and is continuing to eliminate
barriers to recovery today.
In 1966, the Johnson Institute was
formed and dedicated to designing
treatment programs as well as
educating individuals, families,
professionals, and entire communities
about addiction disease. The Johnson
Institute is named after Rev. Vernon Johnson, an Episcopal priest
who convened a Minnesota church study group to figure out how to
convince alcoholics to accept help before incurring tragic
consequences of their drinking.
The result was the first application of the intervention concept that
would become the standard approach for getting alcoholics into
treatment. From that first historic new insight came “Minnesota
Model” programs that have helped hundreds of thousands of
recovering alcoholics around the world.
The Johnson Institute produced and published a variety of
educational books, including Vernon Johnson’s seminal and still
popular book, I’ll Quit Tomorrow. The Johnson Institute continues to
publish numerous books, pamphlets and videos.
By 1990, treatment techniques advanced by the Johnson Institute
had become standard practice in the chemical dependence field. In