Over the next several days, we’ll be sharing 2025’s posts with the most views. Today is #4. For well over a decade, significant focus of effort within the recovery community and across our service space has focused on changing how we talk about substance use conditions and those who experience them. As noted in the … Continue reading 2025’s Top Posts – #4 – Recovery Languaging: Moving from Normalizing Healing to Normalizing Use & Pathology
Author: billstaufferpa
William Stauffer is the Director of Pennsylvania Recovery Organization Alliance (PRO-A). In recovery for well over 3 decades, he is a nationally recognized trainer and writer addiction and recovery. He has testified to the US Senate Special Committee on Aging and in 2019, he organized a hearing with the PA House Human Services Committee to expand opportunities for young people. He is a past co-chair of the public policy committee for Faces & Voices of Recovery and the 2019 recipient of the Vernon Johnson Award Individual Recovery Advocate of the year. He teaches Social Work at Misericordia University. He was recently named to the Leadership Council of Foundations for Drug Policy Solutions (FDPS) a national think / do tank where he serves alongside some of the most respected leaders in the SUD service system. In December 2022, Mr. Stauffer was invited to serve Governor-Elect Josh Shapiro & Lieutenant Gov-Elect Austin Davis on the state Human Services transition team.
2025’s Top Posts – #5 – Codependency A Helpful Concept Turned Toxic: A Lesson from Our Own History
Over the next several days, we’ll be sharing 2025’s posts with the most views. Today is #5. A few weeks ago on February 27th, Melody Beattie died at age 76. For those who may not know the name, she was an author and wrote a best-selling book called Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling … Continue reading 2025’s Top Posts – #5 – Codependency A Helpful Concept Turned Toxic: A Lesson from Our Own History
2025’s Top Posts – #6 – Revisiting William White: Can Recovering People Drink? – A Historical Footnote with Current World Relevance – William Stauffer
Over the next several days, we’ll be sharing 2025’s posts with the most views. Today is #6. "So what does one take from this interesting historical footnote? History promises us important lessons if we sit at her feet and listen carefully to her stories.” – William White, Can Recovering People Drink? I recently ran across … Continue reading 2025’s Top Posts – #6 – Revisiting William White: Can Recovering People Drink? – A Historical Footnote with Current World Relevance – William Stauffer
2025’s Top Posts – #8 – The Coproduction of a Recovery Evidence Base on the Frontiers of Future Recovery Research
Over the next several days, we’ll be sharing 2025’s posts with the most views. Today is #8. Frontiers of Recovery Research Series – William White Interview with Bill Stauffer What an honor it is in my life to do this interview. I think the first time I ever heard the name William White was … Continue reading 2025’s Top Posts – #8 – The Coproduction of a Recovery Evidence Base on the Frontiers of Future Recovery Research
2025’s Top Posts – #9 – History Repeating – the “Opioid” Epidemic Supplanting the Recovery Movement: Pathology Over Resiliency and Healing
Over the next several days, we'll be sharing 2025's posts with the most views. Today is #9. “The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence” ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets The New Recovery Advocacy Movement got off the ground in America roughly three decades ago, … Continue reading 2025’s Top Posts – #9 – History Repeating – the “Opioid” Epidemic Supplanting the Recovery Movement: Pathology Over Resiliency and Healing
2025’s Top Posts – #11 – Expanding the Culture of Recovery
Over the next several days, we'll be sharing 2025's posts with the most views. Today is #11. (Originally posted as #10 in error.) I was first introduced to addiction and recovery being framed as cultures by the William White book Pathways: from the culture of addiction to the culture of recovery: a travel guide for … Continue reading 2025’s Top Posts – #11 – Expanding the Culture of Recovery
Beyond the Rat Race – Resilient Society in the Age of Alienation
On the 28th of April, 1972, Jimmy Reid, a blue-collar shop steward at the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders in Glasgow Scotland gave his inaugural address as the Rector of the University of Glasgow. The Rector is a senior official of the University, elected every three years to represent the interests of the students. It was a … Continue reading Beyond the Rat Race – Resilient Society in the Age of Alienation
Fostering Recovery Community: Mutual Support with Broad Societal Benefit
“People are social creatures who need human interaction to drive and sustain their physical, intellectual and emotional development. The determination of who they interact with from the time of birth throughout their lifetimes is critical to who they become, how they behave, and how they are perceived (or misperceived) by others outside their immediate social … Continue reading Fostering Recovery Community: Mutual Support with Broad Societal Benefit
Gratitude and Addiction Recovery: Validating Experiential Ways of Knowing – William Stauffer
Gratitude is an example of a recovery tool that is grounded in experiential knowledge. A tool used across history in a myriad of mutual support communities. It evolved from indigenous recovery community trial and error practices. That is to say that people in recovery for a very long time have been practicing gratitude as a … Continue reading Gratitude and Addiction Recovery: Validating Experiential Ways of Knowing – William Stauffer
The Coproduction of a Recovery Evidence Base on the Frontiers of Future Recovery Research
Frontiers of Recovery Research Series – William White Interview with Bill Stauffer What an honor it is in my life to do this interview. I think the first time I ever heard the name William White was when I read the book Pathways from the Culture of Addiction to the Culture of Recovery: A … Continue reading The Coproduction of a Recovery Evidence Base on the Frontiers of Future Recovery Research
Recovery Review 