Earlier this week, a friend shared a really interesting table from the Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) 2023 annual report. I'm familiar with the TEDS, but I don't recall ever seeing this table of discharges by year of admission. What this table shows is that, of the 1.4 million discharges in 2023, 60 of them … Continue reading MOUD retention: 17 years, 212 days, 10 days
Tag: Mental Health
Public Interest or Industry Interest: the Economics and Politics of Minimizing Alcohol Harm
“Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.” – George Washington, First Annual Message to Congress, 1790 Last January a report on alcohol and health was posted by the US Department of Health and Human Services for public comment, Draft Report: Scientific Findings of the Alcohol Intake & Health Study for Public … Continue reading Public Interest or Industry Interest: the Economics and Politics of Minimizing Alcohol Harm
Will We Ever Move Beyond an Acute Crisis Orientation? The Absence of Recovery Research and Emerging Drugs
“What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.” ― 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? The Absence of Recovery Research and Emerging Drugs
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 #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”
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 – #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
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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
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