“Let us use whatever power and influence we have, working with whatever resources are already available, mobilizing the people who are with us to work for what they care about.” – Margaret Wheatley I have reposted this from time to time and in this version corrected some wording and added citations. The title of this … Continue reading Building Bridges Between Islands of Healing – Revised from Jan 2022
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An Introduction to Psychodynamic Foundations of Counseling and Related Clinical Supervision for SUDs
Disclaimer: Nothing in this document should be taken or held as clinical instruction, clinical supervision, or advisory concerning patient care. Psychodynamic Models and SUD Severe FINALDownload This monograph responds...by introducing some elementary but foundational philosophical pre-conditions to psychodynamic models and their application to the SUD professional’s core function of case conceptualization. Next, elementary entrance points to … Continue reading An Introduction to Psychodynamic Foundations of Counseling and Related Clinical Supervision for SUDs
Revisiting Support for Long term Recovery and the Reversed Tragedy of the Commons
"There is no greater tyranny against the minds of men that to allow the minds of their children to be destroyed by addiction disease because of our lack of courage and commitment at the time it is needed most. This is the time. If we fail now, we will have failed our future. This is … Continue reading Revisiting Support for Long term Recovery and the Reversed Tragedy of the Commons
Medications for Opioid Use Disorder: Enhancing Retention to Achieve Longterm Remission and Recovery
A newly published monograph "addresses the challenges of achieving long-term stable (OUD) remission and recovery, and, more specifically, the related challenges involved in adherence and retention within the pharmacotherapeutic treatment of OUD." This document is a critical step toward understanding what medication can and cannot achieve for which patients under what circumstances. This right-sizing of … Continue reading Medications for Opioid Use Disorder: Enhancing Retention to Achieve Longterm Remission and Recovery
History repeating
I recently posted on the Trump administration's actions and plans related to drug policy. Here's a little historical context from Institute of Medicine (US) Committee for the Substance Abuse Coverage Study, Gerstein, D. R., & Harwood, H. J. (Eds.). (1990). Treating Drug Problems: Volume 1. National Academies Press (US). Institute of Medicine (US) Committee for … Continue reading History repeating
From Despair to Hope: Addiction Recovery in Iran.
guest post by Ehsan Ranjbar Recovery Review seeks to celebrate the varieties of recovery experiences. In that vein, we're pleased to share this guest post from Ehsan Ranjbar describing his addiction and recovery experience in Iran. Addiction first entered my life quietly, almost like a whisper, when I was 19. Back then, it was just … Continue reading From Despair to Hope: Addiction Recovery in Iran.
Considering the Facets of Whites Laws of Recovery Dynamics
A few weeks back, while revisiting a work of William White on countertransference, contempt and service integration, I penned a draft set of laws that appear to operate in respect to recovery movement and recovery transmission efforts intergenerationally in the USA. I titled it “Whites Laws of Recovery Dynamics,” simply because most of what we … Continue reading Considering the Facets of Whites Laws of Recovery Dynamics
Understanding the Trump Administration’s Drug Policy Changes
The new administration released a Statement of Drug Policy Priorities last week. What's in the White House Statement of Drug Policy Priorities? It's not a long document -- just a few pages, and it identifies 6 priorities listed below. I've also called out specific references to treatment, prevention, harm reduction, and research. Reduce the Number … Continue reading Understanding the Trump Administration’s Drug Policy Changes
5 Year Continuing Care System for High Severity, Complexity, and Chronicity SUD’s: Clinical Targets, Methods, and Increments of Time
5 Year Management Severe SUD FINALDownload I had always assumed that well before now someone would have compiled and consolidated some of the later-arriving recovery-oriented academic research findings into a framework suitable for clinical implementation. If such work has been completed, I have not seen it. Now, having waited longer than I had hoped, I … Continue reading 5 Year Continuing Care System for High Severity, Complexity, and Chronicity SUD’s: Clinical Targets, Methods, and Increments of Time
Revisiting William White: We Need More Recovery Custodians and Fewer Recovery Rock Stars (2020)
Bill and I wrote this in 2020, it is verbatim below. Recently I have been reflecting on the risks of the limelight and the quest for notoriety that can befall us. Consequences experienced systemically when we fail to create an ethos grounded in custodial leadership. What occurs when our focus is on not on taking … Continue reading Revisiting William White: We Need More Recovery Custodians and Fewer Recovery Rock Stars (2020)
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