Five-Year System for Severe SUDs:  The Model, Functions, and Focus Areas

~ Brian Coon

Here, the 5 year model monograph is reduced to a one-pager. The notion of reducing the monograph to a one-pager was given to me by Katlyn Nordstrom, and I greatly appreciate that suggestion. What follows is the content of the one-pager. I'm guessing I might continue to adapt the material in the monograph into tools … Continue reading Five-Year System for Severe SUDs:  The Model, Functions, and Focus Areas

The Arc of Recovery Movement History Ultimately Bends Towards Expansion – William Stauffer & Dr David Best

~ billstaufferpa

I recently wrote a piece, Considering the Facets of Whites Laws of Recovery Dynamics to further the dialogue on how the New Recovery Advocacy movement fits into a broader dynamic of cresting and ebbing efforts to expand long term recovery in America as the norm in our society. As an aside and to be candid, … Continue reading The Arc of Recovery Movement History Ultimately Bends Towards Expansion – William Stauffer & Dr David Best

Throwback Thursday; Revisiting a Critical Theory of Addiction and Recovery (CETAR)

~ Dr. Austin McNeill Brown, MSW, PhD

My original theoretical drawing circa 2014 Notes: This post features an AI-aided summary that condenses my 70-page master's thesis, written in 2016, into a manageable 7,000-word essay. I never published the thesis, though I handed out copies to coworkers and friends. This was because, like many of my ideas, it grew voluminous rather quickly, and … Continue reading Throwback Thursday; Revisiting a Critical Theory of Addiction and Recovery (CETAR)

Building Bridges Between Islands of Healing – Revised from Jan 2022

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“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

An Introduction to Psychodynamic Foundations of Counseling and Related Clinical Supervision for SUDs

~ Brian Coon

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

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"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

~ Jason Schwartz

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

From Despair to Hope: Addiction Recovery in Iran.

~ Jason Schwartz

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

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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