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William White
William L. White is a senior research consultant at Chestnut Health Systems/Lighthouse Institute and past board chair of Recovery Communities United. He has a Master's degree in Addiction Studies and 35 years of experience in the addictions field. He has authored or coauthored more than 275 articles and monographs and thirteen books. In 2003, he received the 2003 National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers’ Michael Q. Ford Journalism Award.
Newsletter Articles from Bill White
Bill White has written a number of articles for a range of publications that are now available for recovery advocates to publish in their newsletters and publications. Check them out and let us know how you’ve used them.
A Recovery Revolution in Philadelphia (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 36 kb)
An Anniversary Tribute to a First Lady (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 340kb)
A New Recovery Advocacy Movement (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 32 kb)
Believe it or Not (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 15 kb)
Confessions of an A.A. History Buff (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 28 kb)
Tales from a Jag House (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 19 kb)
Recovery as a Heroic Journey (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 43 kb)
Recovery in Native America (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 20 kb)
History Corner-Intervention Keeley Style (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 18 kb)
History Corner-The Jacoby Club and A.A. (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 19 kb)
History Corner-The Drunkard's Club (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 18 kb)
History Corner-Recovery Advocacy is not a Recovery Program (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 20 kb)
History Corner-The Eight Secrets of A.A.'s Survival (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 24kb)
The Voice of History-A Question of Justice: Recovery and Civil Rights (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 23 kb)
The Voice of History-Listening to Meth: Lessons from an Earlier Epidemic (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 17 kb)
The Voice of History-Sponsorship and Peer-based Recovery Support Services (P-BRSS) (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 18 kb)
Publications from Bill White
Generational Patterns of Resistance and Recovery Among Families with Histories of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems: What We Need to Know (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 37.6 KB)
Adolescent Recovery: What We Need to Know (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 36KB)
In Search of the Neurobiology of Addiction Recovery: A Brief Commentary on Science and Stigma (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 40 kb)
Gender-specific Recovery Support Services:Evolution of the Women’s Community Recovery Center to the Women’s Recovery Community Center (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 86 kb)
The Recovery Community Organization: Toward A Working Definition and Description (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 77 kb)
Recovery Management: What if We Really Believed That Addiction Was a Chronic Disorder? (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 334 kb)
Recovery: Linking Addiction Treatment and Communities of Recovery: A Primer for Addiction Counselors and Recovery Coaches (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 323 kb)
Sponsor, Recovery Coach, Addiction Counselor: The Importance of Role Clarity and Role Integrity (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 110 kb)
The Varieties of Recovery Experience: A Primer for Addiction Treatment Professionals and Recovery Advocates* (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 178 kb)
Faith-Based Recovery: Its Historical Roots (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 29 kb)
Recovery Management and People of Color: Redesigning Addiction Treatment for Historically Disempowered Communities* (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 118 kb)
Recovery: The Next Frontier (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 44KB)
Treatment Works! Is it time for a new slogan? (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 202KB)
Recovery Rising: Radical Recovery in America (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 56KB)
The History and Future of Peer-based Addiction Recovery Support Services* (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 74 kb)
An Addiction Recovery Glossary: The Languages of American Communities of Recovery (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 187KB)
Where do we go from here? Recovery Summit October 4-6, 2001, St. Paul MN (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 15KB)
The Combined Addiction Disease Chronologies (with Caroline Acker, PhD)
A Day Is Coming: Visions of a New Recovery Advocacy Movement* (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 33KB)
The Campus as a Recovering Community* (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 34 kb)
Toward a New Recovery Movement: Historical Reflections on Recovery, Treatment and Advocacy* (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 101KB)
The Disease of Addiction
- Part I: Addiction as a Disease: Birth of a Concept* (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 35KB)
- Part II: The Rebirth of the Disease Concept of Alcoholism in the 20th Century* (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 23K)
- Part III: Addiction Disease Concept: Advocates and Critics
- Part IV: A Disease Concept for the 21st Century* (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 26KB)
Methadone and the Anti-medication Bias in Addiction Treatment (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 42 kb)
Ethics of Affiliation (with Elizabeth A. Tonai, MPH)
- Full Report* (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 167 KB)
- Executive Summary* (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 57 KB)
All In The Family: Addiction, Recovery, Advocacy* (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 142 kb)
The Rhetoric of Recovery Advocacy: An Essay On the Power of Language* (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 120K)
Recovery as a Heroic Journey (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 27KB)
Materials from Recovery Symposium: Philadelphia, PA, May 2, 2008
Frontline Implementation of Recovery Management Principles: An Interview with Michael Boyle
Recovery as an Organizing Principle: An Interview with H. Westley Clark, MD, JD, MPH, CAS, FASAM
Creating a Recovery-Oriented System of Care: An Interview with Thomas A. Kirk, Jr., PhD
Recovery Management and Technology Transfer: An Interview with Lonnetta Albright
Recovery Management: What if We Really Believed Addiction was a Chronic Disorder?
A Recovery Revolution in Philadelphia
Sponsor, Recovery Coach, Addiction Counselor: The Importance of Role Clarity and Role Integrity
Linking Addiction Treatment & Communities of Recovery: A Primer for Addiction Counselors and Recovery Coaches
(William White, MA; Ernest Kurtz, PhD)
Recovery Management
(William White, MA; Ernest Kurtz, PhD; Mark Sanders, LCSW, CADC)
Ethical Guidelines for the Delivery of Peer-based Recovery Support
(William White, MA; PRO-ACT Ethics Workgroup)
The Role of Clinical Supervision in Recovery-oriented Systems of Behavioral Health Care
(William L. White, MA; Jason Schwartz, LMSW; The Philadelphia Clinical Supervision Workgroup; Angelo Adson, MSS, MLSP, MBA; Laverne Fish, MA; Charles Morgan, MD, FASAM, FAAFP; Larrissa Pettit, CA; Jacqueline Lanza, BS; Laura Boston-Jones, Med; Winston Collins, PhD; Dr. Harvey Weiner, DSA; Paul W. Toth, PhD)