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Power of Peer Support
The concept of “wounded healer”–the idea that people who have survived illness or trauma may have special abilities to help others facing similar challenges–has deep roots within the history of...
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Addiction Treatment (By Itself) is Not Enough
I have spent more than four decades providing, studying, promoting, and defending addiction treatment, but remain acutely aware of its limitations. As currently conceived and delivered, most addiction...
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Tribute to a Recovery Management Pioneer
In 1997, Michael Boyle, the CEO of Fayette Companies, the primary behavioral health provider in Peoria, Illinois had a visionary idea: redesign addiction treatment based on models of chronic disease...
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Opioid Addiction: An Open Letter to the 2016 Presidential Candidates
“…a disease needs to be transformed politically before it can be transformed scientifically.” –Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies (A Biography of Cancer) Ladies and Gentlemen, As...
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Recovery Support and Connection to Community
Both high social status and high social stigma can lead to isolation within “closed incestuous systems” isolated from mainstream community life. Such closed systems are prone to charismatic leadership,...
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Continuity of Recovery Support vs. Replication of Abandonment (Bill White and...
Many people enter addiction treatment in the United States with abuse, abandonment, and loss as central thematic threads within their lives. Such experiences distort one’s self-perceptions (e.g., “I am...
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Recovery Support Following Overdose or other Medical Emergencies (Bill White,...
Missing in the media coverage of the unrelenting legions of drug overdose deaths in the United States is an equally important but less heralded story. What subsequently happens to people who experience...
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The Future of Recovery Support Part I (Bill White and Mike Collins)
“Disruptive innovation, a term coined by Clayton Christensen, describes a process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then...
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The Future of Recovery Support Part II (Bill White and Mike Collins)
“Disruptive innovation, a term coined by Clayton Christensen, describes a process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then...
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