Castle Craig Hospital is a private residential
drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinic. It is located in
Peeblesshire
Peeblesshire ( gd, Siorrachd nam Pùballan), the County of Peebles or Tweeddale is a historic county of Scotland. Its county town is Peebles, and it borders Midlothian to the north, Selkirkshire to the east, Dumfriesshire to the south, and Lan ...
, Scotland. Castle Craig is an 18th-century country house set in of private parkland near the village of
Blyth Bridge, around south of
Edinburgh.
History
The estate is first recorded in 1170 when it was conferred, as part of the parish of
Kirkurd, to
Bishop Engelram of Glasgow by
Pope Alexander III
Pope Alexander III (c. 1100/1105 – 30 August 1181), born Roland ( it, Rolando), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 7 September 1159 until his death in 1181.
A native of Siena, Alexander became pope after a con ...
. The present Castle Craig was built in 1798 by
Sir John Gibson-Carmichael (1773–1803),
a relative of the
Earl of Hyndford. In 1905 it was sold to James Mann, who commissioned
Sir John James Burnet
Sir John James Burnet (31 May 1857 – 2 July 1938) was a Scottish Edwardian architect who was noted for a number of prominent buildings in Glasgow and London. He was the son of the architect John Burnet, and later went into partnership with ...
to remodel the house. It was in use as a residential school in the early 1970s.
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The founders of the hospital, Peter McCann and Dr Margaret Ann McCann, first founded a treatment centre at Clouds House in Wiltshire, England, in 1983, before opening Castle Craig in 1988. Castle Craig is a ]category B listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
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Services
Rehabilitation treatment at Castle Craig is based upon the 12-step
Twelve-step programs are international mutual aid programs supporting recovery from substance addictions, behavioral addictions and compulsions. Developed in the 1930s, the first twelve-step program, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), aided its members ...
abstinence-based model of care which recognises addiction as a disease and abstinence from all drugs is essential for long-lasting recovery. The medical programme at Castle Craig is led by Medical Director and Consultant Psychiatrist Professor Jonathan Chick, and provides detoxification from alcohol and drugs, medical treatment, 12 step therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy and complementary therapies. Castle Craig is a private residential rehab clinic and is also a provider of services to the National Health Service in the UK.
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Houses completed in 1798
Hospitals in the Scottish Borders
Country houses in the Scottish Borders
Category B listed buildings in the Scottish Borders
Listed hospital buildings in Scotland
Psychiatric hospitals in Scotland
Drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers
Addiction organisations in the United Kingdom