Who is Best Qualified to Provide Recovery Support Services
The explosive growth of nonclinical recovery support services (RSS) as an adjunct or alternative to professionally-directed addiction treatment and participation in recovery mutual aid societies raises three related questions: 1) What is the ideal organizational placement for the delivery RSS?, 2) What persons are best qualified to provide RSS?, and 3) Are RSS best provided […]
Recovery Communities Can Help Cultural Healing
In a bleeding world, where are the sources of cultural healing and communal healing? When our connecting fabric is shredding under the assault of hateful rhetoric, where do we find common ground—settings where people speak with each other and not at and over each other? How can we escape the spell of political pimps of […]
Why You Need A Doctor For Addiction Treatment –
Imagine being told that you have a progressively debilitating and potentially fatal medical disorder. It’s widely recognized in the research community as a brain disease. Then you learn that physicians or other medical personnel will NOT be involved in the assessment, diagnosis, acute treatment, or continued monitoring of your condition. Even worse, imagine that many […]
Addiction Stigma And Discrimination
I regularly receive emails and phone calls that poignantly illuminate the stigma and discrimination people can face as they make the journey through addiction to recovery and a life of purpose and meaning. Drug warrior ideologues have employed manipulative rhetoric and caricatured images of people experiencing alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems for political, professional, […]