Over the next several days, we’ll be sharing 2025’s posts with the most views. Today is #7. Some of us intend to do occasional reviews of some of William White's papers. Many of his most important papers are 25 years old, meaning a whole new generation of addiction professionals have entered the workforce since they … Continue reading 2025’s Top Posts – #7 – Relapse and burnout among recovering addiction professionals
Recovery Review as an Archive of Recovery Knowledge
By Archivo-FSP - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2942596 In reading this year's review of top articles at Recovery Review, I found myself suddenly overwhelmed by what the site has become over the years and by how impressed I am with it as the go-to for all the current debates and considerations in the field. … Continue reading Recovery Review as an Archive of Recovery Knowledge
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 – #10 – Addiction Treatment Except for Tobacco and Nicotine: A Call for Change
Over the next several days, we’ll be sharing 2025’s posts with the most views. Today is #10. (I incorrectly posted #11 as #10 yesterday.) I've completed a monograph that calls for change in the addiction treatment arena. It focuses on our need to modify our settings and services to a tobacco-free and smoke-free model of … Continue reading 2025’s Top Posts – #10 – Addiction Treatment Except for Tobacco and Nicotine: A Call for Change
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
Spread the cheer
2025 has been a very challenging year for many organizations serving people with addiction and other vulnerable people. If you're the kind of person looking to share your blessings this time of year, I'd like to offer some worthy organizations I'm connected to as options. National Association for Children of Addiction (NACoA) - Their mission … Continue reading Spread the cheer
A List of Some Addiction-Related Mutual Aid Groups
I built a list of some addiction-related mutual-aid groups to use as an easy reference. I wanted it to reflect variety across a number of domains: primary substance(s), abstinence, moderation, medication status, the presence of co-occurring mental disorders, gender, cultures, agnosticism/atheism, family members, etc. And I wanted it to be a start, rather than try … Continue reading A List of Some Addiction-Related Mutual Aid Groups
“Who is missing from our meetings?”
Recently, I came across the 2026 Conference Agenda Report from the World Service Conference of Narcotics Anonymous. A recent post on Narcotics Anonymous sparked a lot of online discussion. It focused on professionals' lack of cognitive empathy and condescension toward NA. . . . they frame the ~250,000 Narcotics Anonymous members who are lay people, gathering in … Continue reading “Who is missing from our meetings?”
What does care for substance use problems look like?
What does care for substance use problems in the US look like? I don't really know. We hear a lot about substance use problem care dominated by an abstinence orientation. Is it? What form does most substance use care take? I don't really know. When these statements are made, they are often focused on specialty … Continue reading What does care for substance use problems look like?
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