"Know thyself"(ฮณฮฝแฟถฮธฮน ฯฮตฮฑฯ ฯฯฮฝ) โ Inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi 4th century B.C.E For millennia, philosophy has grappled with our capacity to reach our fullest potential, barriers to these ends and the conditions under which we are most likely to actualize. William James (1842-1910), often called the "father of American psychology," well over … Continue reading Authenticity and Actualization: Stronger Through Our Brokenness, Together ย
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Moving Beyond Macro Level Dysfunctional Dynamics โ Supporting Addiction Recovery Efforts in America
On Tuesday, January 13th in the evening, around 9:30 PM on the east coast or 6:30 PM on the west coast, thousands of emails went out across America from SAMHSA, the nationโs mental health and substance use condition federal authority. Attached was a form letter notifying service providers, their staff and the people they served … Continue reading Moving Beyond Macro Level Dysfunctional Dynamics โ Supporting Addiction Recovery Efforts in America
Will We Ever Move Beyond an Acute Crisis Orientation?ย The Absence of Recovery Research and Emerging Drugs
โWhat remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.โ โ Hippocrates Our SUD evidence base tends to be myopic and crisis oriented. It is focused on first aid and short-term stabilization rather than on developing sustained recovery over time. Nowhere is this more evident than in our response to emerging drug combinations … Continue reading Will We Ever Move Beyond an Acute Crisis Orientation?ย The Absence of Recovery Research and Emerging Drugs
2025โs Top Posts โ #1 โย The AI Mirror: “take that small hit, and youโll be fine”
Over the next several days, weโll be sharing 2025โs posts with the most views. Today is #1. I published the post below last month, which resulted in an invitation to speak with DeAnn and Craig Knighton on their podcast, Recovery Discovery. It was a fun conversation and I thought I'd share that with you here. … Continue reading 2025โs Top Posts โ #1 โย The AI Mirror: “take that small hit, and youโll be fine”
2025โs Top Posts โ #4 โย Recovery Languaging: Moving from Normalizing Healing to Normalizing Use & Pathology
Over the next several days, weโll be sharing 2025โs 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 2025โs Top Posts โ #4 โย Recovery Languaging: Moving from Normalizing Healing to Normalizing Use & Pathology
2025โs Top Posts โ #6 โย Revisiting William White: Can Recovering People Drink? – A Historical Footnote with Current World Relevance โ William Stauffer
Over the next several days, weโll be sharing 2025โs 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.โ โ William White, Can Recovering People Drink? I recently ran across … Continue reading 2025โs Top Posts โ #6 โย Revisiting William White: Can Recovering People Drink? – A Historical Footnote with Current World Relevance โ William Stauffer
2025โs Top Posts โ #8 โย The Coproduction of a Recovery Evidence Base on the Frontiers of Future Recovery Research
Over the next several days, weโll be sharing 2025โs posts with the most views. Today is #8. Frontiers of Recovery Research Series โ 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 2025โs Top Posts โ #8 โย The Coproduction of a Recovery Evidence Base on the Frontiers of Future Recovery Research
2025โs Top Posts โ #9 โย History Repeating โ the โOpioidโ 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. โThe historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presenceโ โ T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets The New Recovery Advocacy Movement got off the ground in America roughly three decades ago, … Continue reading 2025โs Top Posts โ #9 โย History Repeating โ the โOpioidโ Epidemic Supplanting the Recovery Movement: Pathology Over Resiliency and Healing
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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
The addiction must go; the person must stay.
I have no interest in commenting on the Reiner family tragedy. Nick Reiner has only been charged and is presumed innocent at this point. I know next to nothing about him. I don't know much about his addiction, whether he has had known mental health issues, or other problems that are likely to be discussed … Continue reading The addiction must go; the person must stay.
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