The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. –Michelangelo It is one of the most beguiling qualities of the experience of addiction:  it sucks up everything of importance in your life and casts those cherished assets(……)

Until recently, recovery from addiction was shrouded in public secrecy in the United States and in most other countries. Addiction has long been viewed as a personally and culturally intractable problem, and pessimism has reigned about the prospects of long-term addiction recovery.  These perceptions have been fed by the unrelenting public visibility of addiction-related problems,(……)

On June 20, 2014, a twenty-year-old was arrested in West Hollywood, California on drug-related charges–not a particularly newsworthy event give the more than 1.5 million drug arrests in the U.S. each year.  What distinguished this arrest was that the young man arrested was Indio Falconer Downey, the son of Robert Downey, Jr., whose own similar(……)

We have just passed the first anniversary of the weekly recovery blogs posted at www.williamwhitepapers.com.  This series of blogs was launched as an experiment in a very different type of writing for me.  Brevity has never been my strength as a writer, and I was unsure whether I could pull off the blog format or(……)