Over the next several days, we’ll be sharing 2025’s 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 2025’s Top Posts – #1 – The AI Mirror: “take that small hit, and you’ll be fine”
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
Source: wikipedia This blog has had several posts on drug use, addiction, liberty, and involuntary treatment. I've used the expression, borrowed from Keith Humphreys, of choosing between "hands on" and "hands off" approaches. A recent article focuses on the use of involuntary Substance Use Disorder treatment under limited circumstances. This is toward the far end … Continue reading Involuntary compassionate intervention?
Why do professionals insist that NA change to meet the needs of their patients? Why not help create something else to meet the needs of their patients?
Authors Note: A version of this is currently in Counselor Magazine. I submitted it for consideration in May 2023 and received notice of it being used last week. My credentials have changed since then and there were substantive changes to the work. The citations here are consistent with what was submitted. I am pleased that … Continue reading Listening to Echoes of Our Own History
Thomas McLellan and Nora Volkow, two very important figures in modern addiction and treatment science, just published a new article. This strikes me as an important and potentially very consequential article. I'll share a few of the things that grabbed my attention. They describe the impetus for this article as follows: Prescribing MOUD with a … Continue reading Protection, Remission, and Recovery
Many years ago, I met with a conservative member of Congress from my home state of Pennsylvania who eventually went on to the US Senate. I was relatively new to legislative meetings but quite passionate about recovery, even in those days. His background before serving politically was in international economics. When I got done explaining … Continue reading Long Term Recovery – the Policy Opportunities of Demand Reduction to Strengthen Our Nation
As harm reduction has risen in prominence and influence in the addiction, treatment, and recovery spaces, one of its contributions to discussions about public policy related to drug use has been the suggestion that prohibition creates a drug supply with unpredictable potency that is vulnerable to contamination, and that these factors drive overdose. This leads … Continue reading Drug Innovation or Contamination?
“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, during a time when addiction recovery policy and practice had fundamentally lost its way. In that era, … Continue reading History Repeating – the “Opioid” Epidemic Supplanting the Recovery Movement: Pathology Over Resiliency and Healing
The Frontiers of Recovery Research Interview Series – William Stauffer What is this series of interviews? In April of 2024, I had the distinct honor of being asked by William White author and thought leader of the new recovery advocacy movement to present his words as the keynote to open up the first annual NIDA … Continue reading Cultural Coproduction in Recovery Science: A Conversation with Mark Sanders
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