"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)
What does a recovery-friendly workplace look like?
https://www.instagram.com/p/DEsF433RQhg/ What does a recovery-friendly workplace look like? Phillis Engelbert provides an amazing example with her restaurants, the Lunch Room, Detroit Filling Station, and North Star Lounge. My recovery staff are filled with heart and soul and operate in a way that exemplifies community, camaraderie, and accountability. Together in a fight for their lives, they … Continue reading What does a recovery-friendly workplace look like?
Revisiting William White: A History of Contempt: Countertransference and the Dangers of Service Integration
“The look which the doctor gave me simply set me back on my heels. My hand remained untaken...Then I realized with a shock that this was not a meeting of two gentlemen on a plane of equality. In the eyes of the man before me, I was just another insane patient” - Marle Woodson 1933 … Continue reading Revisiting William White: A History of Contempt: Countertransference and the Dangers of Service Integration
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