“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

Authored by: David Best, Caroline Beidler, Mulka Nisic Through the writings of William White, we have come to recognise that recovery is a form of social contagion spreading ripples across the surface of a tranquil pool that operates in two senses: It typically spreads from one person in recovery to another, through processes of social … Continue reading Global Family Recovery Alliance: Launch of a strengths-based approach to family recovery

In May of 2022, I wrote about the use of algorithms in substance use care and related discrimination against persons with substance use disorders, this is a revisit on that piece. The recent article in Wired Magazine, Eventbrite Promoted Illegal Opioid Sales to People Searching for Addiction Recovery Help, on how data about peoples addiction … Continue reading Revisiting the Algorithm of SUD Care Discrimination

The "Preserving the Message" website is up, publicly available, and it's an amazing resource. Here's the address: https://preservingthemessage.org/ What purpose does the Preserving the Message website serve? From the site: "Preserving the life-saving message of Narcotics Anonymous by archiving and sharing its history" The searchable archive of documents and media files is amazing all on … Continue reading The “Preserving the Message” Website

A conversation with a colleague yesterday brought to mind the recent study that found no statistically significant impact from an NIH-funded project distributing naloxone, increasing access to MOUD, and providing overdose education. These findings seem like they would have been big news. These interventions have been the centerpieces of the national response to the opioid … Continue reading “we just didn’t harm reduction hard enough”

Bill Stauffer and Kevin Hyer, Esq. CEO of The Hyer Calling Foundation, Inc. There has long been a dream of a care and support system that would be informed by, facilitated by and funded to offer what people need to heal over the long term from one of our most pressing challenges, substance use disorders. … Continue reading A Recovery Disoriented System of Care