My relationships with White Bison founder Don Coyhis and with the Native American Wellbriety Movement are among the most important influences on my recovery advocacy and recovery research activities. I first met Don in the late 1990s as rumblings of a new addiction recovery advocacy movement in the United States were just beginning. In the(……)

On May 21, 2005, David Foster Wallace opened his commencement address at Kenyon College with the following story. There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning,  boys.  How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for(……)