#recovery — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #recovery, aggregated by home.social.
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"I've sat with families in the wreckage of addiction — the lies, the stolen prescriptions, the promises broken so many times the words lose their shape." https://bit.ly/4iWF4ch
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Latvia limited alcohol's hours, banned discount ads, made online delivery take six hours. Five months later, WHO's early read: deaths wholly attributable to alcohol down 27%. No lectures, no moral appeals — just a little more distance between a person and a bad decision. Environment first, character second. That's good policy, and honestly, not bad advice for a Friday.
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The field says "addiction is a family disease," then treats exactly one person and discharges them home to the same living room. The recoveries that held had one thing the relapses didn't: the family learned too. Not blame — skills. Treat the family, or treat half the disease. #Addiction #Family #Recovery
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The federal restriction on concentrated 7-OH kratom products could take effect as early as today. NPR's piece this morning follows men who got hooked on a "supplement" from the gas station and needed real medical care to get free. The policy debate will rage; don't let it drown this out: opioid-like withdrawal is treatable, and nobody needs to white-knuckle it alone.
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Shame doesn't break addiction. It feeds it. Shame → isolation → substance → more shame — a closed loop, and 'why can't you just stop?' is the key that locks it. The different question — 'what pain are they trying to outrun?' — assumes a health problem instead of a character problem. Same situation. Different door.
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Drive console recovery with Netmiko send_multiline_timing(): staggered keystrokes for ROMMON breaks, password recovery, boot menus, no prompt needed. #netmiko #console #recovery https://www.valtersit.com/vault/netmiko-sendmultilinetiming-for-console-recovery-scripts-e1d7e5/
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A line is going around this week: contentment doesn't cancel desire — it cancels desperation. Thirty years in recovery work and that's the whole lesson. The voice of the disease is always "more." Peace isn't having everything — it's no longer needing the next thing to finally be enough. Contentment isn't settling; it's where choice begins.
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There's a post going around telling men to accept the loneliness — no one is coming to save you. Thirty years across the table from men, and the ones who made it were the ones who let somebody in. Solitude chosen is peace; isolation endured as a philosophy is a slow wound. Movember feels like the right week to say that out loud.
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A post is going viral this week: people will use until they're ready to stop or they die — so keep them alive. Thirty years in this field and that remains the truest sentence in it. Harm reduction isn't the opposite of treatment; it's the front door. You can't find peace in a life that ends too soon.
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Addiction medicine is buzzing about GLP-1 medications, and the data is real — five major studies this year.
But the finding that stays with me is the one nobody headlines: when the drug stops, the protection fades within months.
The medication buys quiet. What you build in that quiet — people, purpose, a reason to stay — is what holds.
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Overdose deaths fell 12 percent over the last year of data — real progress, and fragile. Meanwhile the gas station sells tablets and shots that meet you like an opioid but call themselves a supplement. I sit with people living in the space between hope and the next new thing. So we hold the progress gently, and keep asking the questions nobody thinks to ask.
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Recovery Determines How Consistently You Can Progress 📊
You don’t build muscle simply by training harder. You build muscle by recovering well enough to train effectively again.
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/518798/ Donovan Marx recovery: New hospital photograph shows Ventersdorp farmer smiling with wife #Attack #donovan #DonovanMarx #farmer #god #iol #jesus #LenieStander #NorthWest #Psalm150 #recovery #SouthAfrica #syferfontein #ventersdorp #VentersdorpMagistrate’sCourt
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Seeing Past Flaws: Christlike Compassion and Confidentiality
A person without good sense finds fault with his neighbor; but a person with understanding keeps quiet. Proverbs 11:12 You maintain confidentiality and stay quiet about the flaws of another. You respect the privacy of others and do not make mention of their past failures or current struggles. You are tolerant and understanding. When you see someone trying to turn over a new leaf, you are quick to offer support and encouragement. You do not accuse, gossip, or ridicule those who struggle to […]https://lastwordrecovery.com/2026/11/11/seeing-past-flaws-christlike-compassion-and-confidentiality/
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A line going around this week: "Loneliness can make familiar pain look like comfort."
Three decades in this field taught me that loneliness doesn't just hurt — it distorts. Isolation is the setup; the substance, the person, the pattern becomes the relief.
Recovery lives in rooms with other people in them. If you love someone in recovery, build rooms.
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A conversation going around today: a routine trauma assessment surfaced years of dissociation no one had ever named. The treatment was "working." The engine underneath had never been discussed.
The behavior is the smoke. The body is the fire. Insight can't hear what the alarm is telling you.
What has your body been carrying that your mind won't say out loud?
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A post about harm reduction went viral overnight — more than ten thousand likes. Its point, plain and simple: people will keep using until they're ready to stop or they die. Keeping people alive is the goal.
Harm reduction isn't the opposite of recovery. It's the road that keeps a person alive long enough to walk it. Every recovery story begins with someone still alive to tell it.
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New York just settled with the company managing mental health and addiction benefits for four million people. The findings: an 82% ghost network of providers who couldn't actually see patients, and addiction care denied with criteria the state never approved.
When someone is ready for help, every day matters. Denial-by-default is a quiet cruelty. May this become the norm, not the exception.
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This Veterans Day, a quiet SAMHSA finding: nearly all veterans with a substance use disorder who didn't get treatment didn't think they needed it.
Not cost. Not access. They didn't believe they needed help.
That's not stubbornness — that's training. We taught them to rely only on themselves, then we're surprised they can't ask.
If you love a veteran, ask twice. The first answer is training. The second might be true.
#VeteransDay #MentalHealth #Recovery
