The social stigma attached to addiction and addiction recovery inflicts innumerable harms to individuals, families, organizations, and communities. Two people in recovery recently emailed me sharing quite different dilemmas—each flowing from stigma-induced caricatures of addiction and recovery. In the first instance, people had no difficulty believing the individual’s addiction story because of his numerous, and(……)

Regular visitors to this website know how strongly I feel about the need to shift the organizing center of the alcohol and other drugs problem arena toward a recovery paradigm and how vitally important it is to clearly define and measure recovery at personal, professional, systems performance and policy levels.  Last year, I encouraged visitors(……)