A decade ago, there was a viral moment on social media called “the Dress,” millions of people saw the picture here and chimed in on what color that they perceived the dress to be. It has its own Wikipedia reference. Viewers either see a black and blue dress, or white and gold dress. One article … Continue reading The Recovery We See – Healing Across the Spectrum of SUDs  

I searched for a more recent research article in the area of pain/ostracism and came across this paper. It's open access with the full text freely available. And it's not a terribly difficult read. I've had a sustained interest in the areas of psychic pain and physical pain for a good number of years. I'm … Continue reading Research Article Review: “Acute Ostracism-Related Pain Sensitization in the Context of Accumulated Lifetime Experiences of Ostracism”

A sentence to ponder on a hot topic. “The trouble is, LSD attracts unstable therapists as much as it does the neurotic patient,” said Sidney Cohen, a leading psychedelic researcher and psychiatrist, in 1963. “It gives them an intoxicating sense of power to bestow such a fabulous experience on others.” Enders, C. (2024, August 23). … Continue reading Unstable therapists and an intoxicating sense of power

In the midst of growing pessimism in the American culture about the prospects of recovery, there is a growing call for a new, grassroots recovery advocacy. This movement is re-raising questions about the potentials and pitfalls in the interrelationship between recovering people, mutual aid organizations, treatment institutions, and public education and social advocacy agencies. White, … Continue reading A lost vision, community despair, professional contempt, and people who “suck”

Here is a link to Episode #68 of The RCORPodcast. I am posting the link to this episode due to the wonderful content. Here's an overview and table of contents of the episode, quoted from their site: Dr. Austin Brown is a recovery scientist currently living in Denmark. With a recovery journey that featured stops … Continue reading Podcast episode #68: “Recovery-Informed Research and Theory”

“Lethe is the river of forgetfulness that runs through the underworld, so the classics tell us, and there is nothing more potent than forgetfulness.” ― Kate Quinn As I wrote about in a recent piece, Ways of Knowing and Our AOD Treatment & Recovery Workforce, a major source of information about addiction and recovery is … Continue reading Swimming In the River Lethe: Immersion in Un-mindfulness of our Own History

In this Open Access article, the authors note, Data from 32,033 cognitively-healthy adults aged 50-104 years participating in prospective cohort studies of aging from 14 European countries were used to examine associations of lifestyle with memory and fluency decline over 10 years. And that, We thus show that differences in cognitive decline between lifestyles were … Continue reading Research Article Review: “Healthy lifestyle and cognitive decline in middle-aged and older adults residing in 14 European countries”

In the addiction and recovery space, we often fail to see issues and related solutions through multiple lenses. We want simple answers and even simpler solutions to our most profoundly complex challenges. The proverbial silver bullet solution that ever fails us. As my colleague Jason Schwartz writes, we have multiple approaches to addressing drug problems, … Continue reading Ways of Knowing and Our AOD Treatment & Recovery Workforce