We can think about the people in recovery like individual trees in a forest. A forest is not just a group of individual trees; they are interconnected in what has been termed the “wood wide web.” All the trees, plants and microbial organisms in a forest are in reality connected to each other. The wood … Continue reading C-CHIME: Seeing the connected forest through the individual trees – A cascade model of building recovery capital through community and connections – Dr David Best, Bill Stauffer June 2025
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Tobacco Recovery in the Addiction Recovery Space: Time for Action!
“For decades, people in recovery from addictions to other drugs have their lives cut short by tobacco-related diseases. Their drear friends, patients, and colleagues died from nicotine addiction, but it could also be said they died from blindness – the failure to see nicotine as an addictive drug and the failure to see smoking cessation … Continue reading Tobacco Recovery in the Addiction Recovery Space: Time for Action!
Constricted Ways of Knowing and the Loss of Recovery as a Focus of Our Institutions
“The experts on recovery are people in recovery” – Rallying Cry from the Era of the New Recovery Advocacy Movement. We once, not long ago, had a movement in America embraced broadly across our society in which people in recovery began to inform the fledgling research on our healing. It influenced a strengths orientation within … Continue reading Constricted Ways of Knowing and the Loss of Recovery as a Focus of Our Institutions
The Arc of Recovery Movement History Ultimately Bends Towards Expansion – William Stauffer & Dr David Best
I recently wrote a piece, Considering the Facets of Whites Laws of Recovery Dynamics to further the dialogue on how the New Recovery Advocacy movement fits into a broader dynamic of cresting and ebbing efforts to expand long term recovery in America as the norm in our society. As an aside and to be candid, … Continue reading The Arc of Recovery Movement History Ultimately Bends Towards Expansion – William Stauffer & Dr David Best
Throwback Thursday; Revisiting a Critical Theory of Addiction and Recovery (CETAR)
My original theoretical drawing circa 2014 Notes: This post features an AI-aided summary that condenses my 70-page master's thesis, written in 2016, into a manageable 7,000-word essay. I never published the thesis, though I handed out copies to coworkers and friends. This was because, like many of my ideas, it grew voluminous rather quickly, and … Continue reading Throwback Thursday; Revisiting a Critical Theory of Addiction and Recovery (CETAR)
Building Bridges Between Islands of Healing – Revised from Jan 2022
“Let us use whatever power and influence we have, working with whatever resources are already available, mobilizing the people who are with us to work for what they care about.” – Margaret Wheatley I have reposted this from time to time and in this version corrected some wording and added citations. The title of this … Continue reading Building Bridges Between Islands of Healing – Revised from Jan 2022
Revisiting Support for Long term Recovery and the Reversed Tragedy of the Commons
"There is no greater tyranny against the minds of men that to allow the minds of their children to be destroyed by addiction disease because of our lack of courage and commitment at the time it is needed most. This is the time. If we fail now, we will have failed our future. This is … Continue reading Revisiting Support for Long term Recovery and the Reversed Tragedy of the Commons
Medications for Opioid Use Disorder: Enhancing Retention to Achieve Longterm Remission and Recovery
A newly published monograph "addresses the challenges of achieving long-term stable (OUD) remission and recovery, and, more specifically, the related challenges involved in adherence and retention within the pharmacotherapeutic treatment of OUD." This document is a critical step toward understanding what medication can and cannot achieve for which patients under what circumstances. This right-sizing of … Continue reading Medications for Opioid Use Disorder: Enhancing Retention to Achieve Longterm Remission and Recovery
Considering the Facets of Whites Laws of Recovery Dynamics
A few weeks back, while revisiting a work of William White on countertransference, contempt and service integration, I penned a draft set of laws that appear to operate in respect to recovery movement and recovery transmission efforts intergenerationally in the USA. I titled it “Whites Laws of Recovery Dynamics,” simply because most of what we … Continue reading Considering the Facets of Whites Laws of Recovery Dynamics
Revisiting William White: A History of Contempt: Countertransference and the Dangers of Service Integration
“The look which the doctor gave me simply set me back on my heels. My hand remained untaken...Then I realized with a shock that this was not a meeting of two gentlemen on a plane of equality. In the eyes of the man before me, I was just another insane patient” - Marle Woodson 1933 … Continue reading Revisiting William White: A History of Contempt: Countertransference and the Dangers of Service Integration
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