After 30+ years in this work, I can tell you: nobody relapses because they wanted recovery less than the next person. Addiction is a chronic, treatable condition — the AMA has recognized that since 1956. What people need isn't louder shame. It's a real plan and people who stay in the room. #Recovery #AddictionRecovery #StigmaFree #MentalHealth
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Alkoholabhängigkeit ist eine Krankheit. Kein lebenslanger Stempel..
#Alkoholabhängigkeit #Suchterkrankung #Stigmatisierung #Abstinenz #Suchthilfe #AddictionRecovery #MentalHealth #SocialStigma #Suchtstigma #SobrietyJourney
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It's the question I hear more than any other in 30 years of this work: "Why can't they just stop?" Here's what I've learned: that question carries something it doesn't mean to. Shame. Shame isn't just painful — it's a clinical obstacle to recovery. The better question: "What would it take for them to believe they deserve a different answer?" https://dub.sh/ivCNnkR
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A priest on the Orthodox Christian Network says the foundation of recovery is the Gospel. The comments split, predictably. From 30+ years in the field: the spirituality of the 12 steps isn't a religious claim — it's a clinical observation. A 2026 JAMA study of 540,000+ people: 13% protective link with lower drug use risk. Nobody recovers alone. https://dub.sh/imCOpir
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That old argument is back: harm reduction or treatment, pick a side. I've worked in both worlds for decades, and I've never understood the fight. Keeping a person alive is not the opposite of helping them heal — it's how we keep people here long enough to heal. A bridge isn't a destination, but nobody crosses without one. Both, always.
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Complex PTSD today is where addiction was 30 years ago — dismissed by mainline medicine, buried in stigma, called untreatable. Addiction went down this same road. We know how the story ends: the science catches up, and the paradigm shifts.
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Someone on here today called 'substance use disorder' a 'woke term for drug addicts.' Thirty years in, here's what I know: the words aren't decoration. SUD is a diagnosis, same as diabetes — the AMA named addiction a disease in 1956. We say someone has cancer, not that someone is cancer. Shrink a person to their worst moment and treatment starts looking optional. 'Junkie' never kept anyone alive. #Stigma #AddictionRecovery #SubstanceUseDisorder #LanguageMatters #MentalHealth
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In Michigan, opioid settlement money just became 205 real beds: $3.4 million for 24 recovery residences across 14 counties. 'Housing is more than a roof,' the state's chief medical executive said — 'it's a foundation for wellness, employment, connection.' That's recovery capital: a safe address, a reason to get up, people who know your name. People don't heal in isolation — they heal housed and connected. #Recovery #RecoveryCapital #AddictionRecovery #Community #Housing
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What Does My Brain Think Without Poison in the Blood
A poem from the book "the things cornfields keep". Available free now on Amazon Kindle for 5 days. Link below the things cornfields keep (The Fracture & Form Chapbook Series 4) https://a.co/d/0htNd2oV Drove 100 mph trying to outrun my anxiety,Landed at a friend’s house,Where the house was filled with meth and fentanyl,People on couches look terrified from paranoia,Others passed out back hunched forward asleep, blueOverdosing on cocktails of death.How did this become my lifeWhy am I […] -
The political season is framing it as 'harm reduction OR recovery,' as though keeping someone alive is the opposite of helping them heal. In thirty years of this work, I've never watched shame carry anyone into recovery — the ones who made it were kept alive and connected by someone who refused to give up on them first. You can't walk through a door you never live long enough to see. #HarmReduction #Recovery #AddictionRecovery #MentalHealth #Compassion
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Social connections aren't a 'nice to have' in recovery — they're the difference between short-term sobriety and a life that's truly sustainable. If you're rebuilding, build people in, not just routines. https://dub.sh/neAw4I8
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The harm-reduction outrage is making its rounds again this week. Thirty years in this field and I keep seeing the same thing: the pipes and the foil were never the point. The point was sitting with someone — being the first person in a long time to treat them with dignity. Recovery usually starts exactly there.
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Seeing harm reduction dragged through the mud again this week. Thirty years in this work, and both the data and my own eyes say the same thing: harm reduction doesn't enable addiction — it keeps people alive long enough to find recovery. The opposite of recovery isn't a clean syringe. It's a closed door. #HarmReduction #AddictionRecovery #PublicHealth #HarmReductionWorks
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Being alone and being lonely are different things, and most of us were never taught the difference. One is an empty room; the other is an empty feeling in a crowded one. If the quiet makes you restless, that's information, not a flaw. Before you reach for something — or someone — to make it stop: Pause. Acknowledge. Understand. Settle. Engage. That small practice is where both solitude and connection begin. #Loneliness #InnerPeace #MentalHealth #Mindfulness #AddictionRecovery
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Something honest is going around this week: stop telling people recovery is hard. Being sick without a substance every single day — that's what's hard. Thirty years in this work taught me the same. Nobody is afraid recovery will be too hard. They're afraid of losing the one thing that numbs the pain — and of who they'll meet when it's gone. #Recovery #AddictionRecovery #InnerPeace #MentalHealth
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This year's Nobel Prize in medicine went to a light switch for brain cells. One of the laureates is a psychiatrist; the circuits this tool has helped reveal include the ones behind craving and reward.
The AMA named addiction a disease in 1956. Seventy years later, the science still agrees — and so does anyone who has ever sat with the actual person inside the illness. #Neuroscience #AddictionRecovery #MentalHealth #EndStigma -
A priest on the Orthodox Christian Network says the foundation of recovery is the Gospel. The comments split, predictably.
From 30+ years in the field: the spirituality of the 12 steps isn't a religious claim — it's a clinical observation. A 2026 JAMA study of 540,000+ people: 13% protective link with lower drug use risk.
Nobody recovers alone. 🔗 https://dub.sh/imCOpir
#12Steps #Spirituality #AddictionRecovery #MentalHealth -
It's National Recovery Month, and I want to talk about the question I hear more than any other in 30 years of this work: "Why can't they just stop?"
Here's what I've learned: that question carries something it doesn't mean to. Shame. Shame isn't just painful. It's a clinical obstacle to recovery.
The question is "What would it take for them to believe they deserve a different answer?" Full post: https://dub.sh/ivCNnkR
#RecoveryMonth #AddictionRecovery #SelfCompassion #MentalHealth #Connection -
Social connections aren’t a “nice to have” in recovery—they’re the difference between short-term sobriety and a life that’s truly sustainable and supported. https://dub.sh/neAw4I8 #addictionrecovery #mentalhealth #communitysupport #socialconnectedness
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What happened to Phil Mickelson? Golf star sought help for ‘family trauma and addiction’ | International Sports News
What happened to Phil Mickelson? Golf star sought help for ‘family trauma and addiction’ Phil Mickelson recently checked…
#Golf #News #addictionrecovery #familytrauma #gamblingaddiction #golfaddictiontreatment #philmickelson #PhilMickelsontreatment #professionalgolfnews
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DATE: September 29, 2026 at 05:00AM
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NEW YORK TIMES PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGISTS FEEDTITLE: Why Are We Becoming So Entranced by Hypnotherapy?
URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/style/hypnotherapy-hypnosis-jim-curtis.html
Once considered a fringe practice, hypnotherapy is now praised by celebrities, offered at spas and even administered to treat depression and addiction. Does it work?
URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/style/hypnotherapy-hypnosis-jim-curtis.html
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New EPS integrated stabilization centre already saving lives
Behind the blunt concrete front of the old Edmonton Police Service headquarters, a remarkable transformation is taking place,…
#Canada #Edmonton #addictionrecovery #AlbertaHospitalEdmonton #Edmontonpolice #EvanRomanow #frontlineworkers #mentalhealth #navigationcentre #RecoveryAlberta #WarrenDriechel
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https://www.fogolf.com/us/7800/ Former golf star overcomes troubled past through St. Matthew’s House in Southwest Florida #AddictionRecovery #daughter #DrugAddiction #faith #Florida #FloridaGolf #FormerGolfer #GolfScholarship #GolfStar #homelessness #hunger #JailTime #LifeChange #naples #NonprofitOrganization #prison #ProfessionalGolfer #SellingDrugs #StMatthew'sHouse #streams #TreyColeman #TroubledPast #UsPrivacyNoticeTerm #UseNextfre #wbbh
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Social connections aren’t a “nice to have” in recovery—they’re the difference between short-term sobriety and a life that’s truly sustainable and supported. https://dub.sh/neAw4I8 #addictionrecovery #mentalhealth #communitysupport #socialconnectedness
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It's National Recovery Month, and I want to talk about the question I hear more than any other in 30 years of this work: "Why can't they just stop?"
Here's what I've learned: that question carries something it doesn't mean to. Shame. Shame isn't just painful. It's a clinical obstacle to recovery.
The question is "What would it take for them to believe they deserve a different answer?" Full post: https://dub.sh/ivCNnkR
#RecoveryMonth #AddictionRecovery #SelfCompassion #MentalHealth #Connection -
Explore how women can move beyond sympathy through practical recovery support, healthier routines, emotional awareness, family understanding, and meaningful change. For more info - https://drugfreecountry.com/nasha-mukti-kendra-in-sangrur/
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Social connections aren’t a “nice to have” in recovery—they’re the difference between short-term sobriety and a life that’s truly sustainable and supported. https://dub.sh/neAw4I8 #addictionrecovery #mentalhealth #communitysupport #socialconnectedness
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It's National Recovery Month, and I want to talk about the question I hear more than any other in 30 years of this work: "Why can't they just stop?"
Here's what I've learned: that question carries something it doesn't mean to. Shame. Shame isn't just painful. It's a clinical obstacle to recovery.
The question is "What would it take for them to believe they deserve a different answer?" Full post: https://dub.sh/ivCNnkR
#RecoveryMonth #AddictionRecovery #SelfCompassion #MentalHealth #Connection -
Social connections aren’t a “nice to have” in recovery—they’re the difference between short-term sobriety and a life that’s truly sustainable and supported. https://dub.sh/neAw4I8 #addictionrecovery #mentalhealth #communitysupport #socialconnectedness
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Social connections aren’t a “nice to have” in recovery—they’re the difference between short-term sobriety and a life that’s truly sustainable and supported. https://dub.sh/neAw4I8 #addictionrecovery #mentalhealth #communitysupport #socialconnectedness
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It's National Recovery Month, and I want to talk about the question I hear more than any other in 30 years of this work: "Why can't they just stop?"
Here's what I've learned: that question carries something it doesn't mean to. Shame. Shame isn't just painful. It's a clinical obstacle to recovery.
The question is "What would it take for them to believe they deserve a different answer?" Full post: https://dub.sh/ivCNnkR
#RecoveryMonth #AddictionRecovery #SelfCompassion #MentalHealth #Connection -
Woman Claims Non-Invasive Ultrasound Treatment Helped Overcome Meth Addiction
📰 Original title: A New Startup Lets You Freeze Your Eggs For Free. But Is Anything Ever Free?
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️#health #medicaltreatment #addictionrecovery #noninvasivetherapy
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Social connections aren’t a “nice to have” in recovery—they’re the difference between short-term sobriety and a life that’s truly sustainable and supported. https://dub.sh/neAw4I8 #addictionrecovery #mentalhealth #communitysupport #socialconnectedness
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Social connections aren’t a “nice to have” in recovery—they’re the difference between short-term sobriety and a life that’s truly sustainable and supported. https://dub.sh/neAw4I8 #addictionrecovery #mentalhealth #communitysupport #socialconnectedness
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Social connections aren’t a “nice to have” in recovery—they’re the difference between short-term sobriety and a life that’s truly sustainable and supported. https://dub.sh/neAw4I8 #addictionrecovery #mentalhealth #communitysupport #socialconnectedness
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Social connections aren’t a “nice to have” in recovery—they’re the difference between short-term sobriety and a life that’s truly sustainable and supported. https://dub.sh/neAw4I8 #addictionrecovery #mentalhealth #communitysupport #socialconnectedness
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Punjab jails see surge in Buprenorphine supply, report says 8.87 crore tablets issued this year
As many as 43.44 crore tablets of Buprenorphine — a drug used to help wean addicts off substance…
#NewsBeep #News #Medication ##DrugTreatment ##OpioidAssistedTreatment ##PunjabJails #addictionrecovery #buprenorphine #CA #Canada #drugdeaddiction #Health #PunjabHealth #substanceabuse #yudhnasheyanvirudh
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Punjab jails see surge in Buprenorphine supply, report says 8.87 crore tablets issued this year
As many as 43.44 crore tablets of Buprenorphine — a drug used to help wean addicts off substance…
#NewsBeep #News #Medication ##DrugTreatment ##OpioidAssistedTreatment ##PunjabJails #addictionrecovery #buprenorphine #drugdeaddiction #Health #PunjabHealth #substanceabuse #UK #UnitedKingdom #yudhnasheyanvirudh
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1133866/ Punjab jails see surge in Buprenorphine supply, report says 8.87 crore tablets issued this year ##DrugTreatment ##OpioidAssistedTreatment ##PunjabJails #addictionrecovery #buprenorphine #drugdeaddiction #Health #Medication #PunjabHealth #substanceabuse #UK #UnitedKingdom #yudhnasheyanvirudh
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/623492/ Punjab jails see surge in Buprenorphine supply, report says 8.87 crore tablets issued this year ##DrugTreatment ##OpioidAssistedTreatment ##PunjabJails #addictionrecovery #buprenorphine #drugdeaddiction #Éire #Health #IE #Ireland #Medication #PunjabHealth #substanceabuse #yudhnasheyanvirudh
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The seven techniques are not a menu. They are a sequence. Cognitive restructuring and behavioral activation form the foundation. Functional analysis maps triggers. Coping skills build the response library. This architecture compounds. Willpower does not.
🔗 https://neuroviaxacademy.com/cbt-strategies-for-addiction/
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Between-session practice is not busywork. It is the mechanism that turns a deliberate skill into an automatic response. This requires repeated pairing of new coping with old triggers across different contexts. A lapse may indicate the consolidation phase is still active, not that understanding has failed.
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Recent reflections on coursework reveal deep ethical friction regarding institutional power and vulnerable populations. Rehabilitation frameworks are sometimes taught without adequate critical analysis of the coercion embedded in their structures. Scrutinising these approaches matters because people entering recovery carry histories where power was already misused against them.
Evidence drawn from trauma research confirms that safety, active consent, and collaborative decision making form the baseline of any genuinely therapeutic environment. Bypassing these foundations does not accelerate recovery; it replicates the very conditions that compound harm. My own experience navigating systems that demanded compliance before offering access has made this concrete rather than abstract. Structures built on submission tend to silence the people they claim to serve.
Relational ethics and humanistic philosophy ask whether our practices actually produce human flourishing, asking not what is being done to someone but whether they are growing, healing, and recovering their agency. A programme can hold the best intentions and still leave people less free than when they arrived. Examining this gap between stated purpose and lived impact is where genuine ethical accountability starts. Good intentions must be interrogated, not assumed.[1]
Disability and lived experience teach hard lessons about how quickly care can turn into control when power goes unchecked. Peer support and community-centred models consistently show stronger long-term outcomes precisely because they distribute rather than concentrate authority. When recovery programmes genuinely respect autonomy, people are far more likely to remain engaged without coercion. Advocacy for evidence-based, person-centred models is not idealism. Decades of research back it.
#Ethics #TraumaInformedCare #LivedExperience #CounsellingStudent #AddictionRecovery #MentalHealth #EvidenceBasedPractice #PersonCentredCare
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Care Denied: West Virginia's Ban on Methadone Clinics Blocks Life-Saving Medicine | American Civil Liberties Union
https://www.aclu.org/news/disability-rights/care-denied-west-virginias-ban-on-methadone-clinics-blocks-life-saving-medicine #addictionrecovery #Methadone #AmericanDisabilityActADA -
Low dopamine this morning in Siem Reap. Just sitting with coffee, the breeze, and my thoughts — slower, but still moving forward. Sometimes progress isn’t fast, it’s just showing up anyway.
https://whothefami.substack.com/p/morning-in-siem-reap-low-dopamine
#SlowLiving #ExpatLife #Cambodia #AddictionRecovery #MindfulMoments