In the opening decade of the 2000s, there were calls from multiple quarters to shift the organizing center of the alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems field from a focus on addiction-related pathology and the nuances of clinical intervention to a focus on  personal, family, and community recovery (See HERE, HERE, and HERE). We spoke(……)

In the late 1990s, a recovery advocacy organization invited me to Dallas, Texas to talk about the history of addiction treatment and recovery in America. In responding to such requests, I often arrived early enough before my presentation to interview any old-timers I could locate about their early experiences in jails, treatment institutions, and mutual(……)

The prevalence, pathways and processes of long-term addiction recovery have been hidden from public view for far too long.  Most importantly, recovery has been invisible to those most in need of its transforming presence.  Recovery has long been cloistered behind the walls of treatment centers and within the rooms of mutual aid meetings. Today, recovery(……)