“Realistically, if our company is to survive and prosper, over the long term, we must get our share of the youth market. In my opinion this will require new brands tailored to the youth market.” — Claude E. Teague, RJ Reynolds 1973 I learned about the Puff Muff device recently. The commercial interests have been … Continue reading Perfecting Addictive Drug Delivery Systems for Children – The Puff Muff
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Covering Drugs
Visit http://www.coveringdrugs.org I often think about how difficult it is to find good information about addiction, drug use, recovery, drug policy, and advocacy around all these matters. There are so many sources providing incomplete and incorrect information, often very persuasively. I've spoken with so many family members and members of the media struggling to find … Continue reading Covering Drugs
Current list of interviews on the first national meeting of the New Recovery Advocacy Movement in Saint Paul MN with key leaders, recovery leaders in Government and the Frontiers of Recovery Research interview series as of March 1st, 2026
Over the years in the course of my writings I have had the distinct honor to conduct interviews focused on historical and future oriented topics of interest to the New Recovery Advocacy Movement (NRAM). These interviews and those that follow into the future may be of interest to future leaders as recovery movements evolve over … Continue reading Current list of interviews on the first national meeting of the New Recovery Advocacy Movement in Saint Paul MN with key leaders, recovery leaders in Government and the Frontiers of Recovery Research interview series as of March 1st, 2026
Moving Beyond Macro Level Dysfunctional Dynamics – 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 nation’s 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 – Supporting Addiction Recovery Efforts in America
Drugs, synthetic analogs, and regulation
Earlier today, we posted the #2 post of 2025, which was about the emergence of a synthetic analog to nicotine. it’s interesting to me that we start with tobacco, move to nicotine vape, then on to the nicotine pouch, and eventually drift to synthetic nicotine analogs. And all along we see a consistent theme of: harmful … Continue reading Drugs, synthetic analogs, and regulation
2025’s Top Posts – #2 – 6-methyl nicotine is here
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
Drug Innovation or Contamination?
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?
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!
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
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
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