One of the many purposes of this blog series is to offer factual and visual evidence of the worldwide cultural and political mobilization of people in recovery and their families and allies. Toward that end, I occasionally highlight recovery advocacy efforts in countries other than the United States. In 2007, I conducted a lecture tour(……)
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A vibrant recovery advocacy movement is flourishing in Japan—one among many signs of the spread and maturation of recovery advocacy in country after country. There is no master mechanism that serves as THE central driver of addiction recovery. There is instead a synergy of influences that combine in unique sequences to initiate and sustain recovery.(……)
…a movement is afoot that is seeking to put recovery in the wind so that it can penetrate even the most shadowed corners of the richest and poorest communities. The faces and voices of the individuals and families riding this wind are offering a simple but powerful testimony: “We are the evidence that addiction(……)