Over the next several days, we’ll be sharing 2025’s posts with the most views. Today is #2. Did you know that a synthetic analog of nicotine has been developed and is on the market? It’s called 6-methyl nicotine (6-MN). Before we get into some of the more recent findings about 6-MN, it’s important to understand … Continue reading 2025’s Top Posts – #2 – 6-methyl nicotine is here
2025’s Top Posts – #3 – Abolish SAMHSA? On advocacy and criticism
Over the next several days, we’ll be sharing 2025’s posts with the most views. Today is #3. I've seen this article shared several times recently. Here's the premise: The incoming Trump administration wants to improve public safety, push back on progressive cultural politics, and cut wasteful federal spending. One way to do all three? Abolish … Continue reading 2025’s Top Posts – #3 – Abolish SAMHSA? On advocacy and criticism
2025’s Top Posts – #4 – Recovery Languaging: Moving from Normalizing Healing to Normalizing Use & Pathology
Over the next several days, we’ll be sharing 2025’s posts with the most views. Today is #4. For well over a decade, significant focus of effort within the recovery community and across our service space has focused on changing how we talk about substance use conditions and those who experience them. As noted in the … Continue reading 2025’s Top Posts – #4 – Recovery Languaging: Moving from Normalizing Healing to Normalizing Use & Pathology
2025’s Top Posts – #5 – Codependency A Helpful Concept Turned Toxic: A Lesson from Our Own History
Over the next several days, we’ll be sharing 2025’s posts with the most views. Today is #5. A few weeks ago on February 27th, Melody Beattie died at age 76. For those who may not know the name, she was an author and wrote a best-selling book called Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling … Continue reading 2025’s Top Posts – #5 – Codependency A Helpful Concept Turned Toxic: A Lesson from Our Own History
2025’s Top Posts – #6 – Revisiting William White: Can Recovering People Drink? – A Historical Footnote with Current World Relevance – William Stauffer
Over the next several days, we’ll be sharing 2025’s posts with the most views. Today is #6. "So what does one take from this interesting historical footnote? History promises us important lessons if we sit at her feet and listen carefully to her stories.” – William White, Can Recovering People Drink? I recently ran across … Continue reading 2025’s Top Posts – #6 – Revisiting William White: Can Recovering People Drink? – A Historical Footnote with Current World Relevance – William Stauffer
2025’s Top Posts – #7 – Relapse and burnout among recovering addiction professionals
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
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