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National Recovery Month Planning Partners CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Due Friday, April 26, 2019 Ramstad/Kennedy Annual Award FOR Outstanding Leadership BY a Single State Authority The first annual Ramstad/Kennedy Award was presented in 2008 during a...
Original Blog Date: July 13, 2016 CALLING ATTENTION TO OPIOID-AFFECTED FAMILIES AND CHILDREN (WILLIAM WHITE AND DR. DENNIS C. DALEY) Fresh proposals to respond to rising opioid use/addiction/deaths arrive daily, but are striking in their...
With the federal passage of the FIRST STEP Act, we finally see action on criminal justice reform! The FIRST STEP Act recently passed and was signed by the President. This was historical. For years, Congress had attempted to pass...
Original Blog Date: September 12, 2014 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 treatment...
Meet Emilee, our January “Mama’s in Recovery” feature story. Emilee took the time to sit down with Faces & Voices of Recovery to share a bit of her recovery journey. Emilee, now 31 years old,...
And it surely is a gift. Recent blogs on this site have featured Bill White’s Blasts from the Past. Also profiles from our Recovering Moms who are in the know and in the now. I...
Original Blog Date: September 4, 2015 There is much that the recovery advocacy movement can learn from the LGBT rights movement of recent decades. The latter movement is one of the most successful social movements...
Original Blog Date: January 25, 2014 Those of you who have been reading my weekly blogs these past six months will recognize two simple and enduring themes: Recovery is contagious and recovery is spread by recovery carriers. Those notions...
Addiction Professional, December 27, 2018 Attending Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meetings had reinforced Alan Wartenberg, MD’s recovery for years, until the early 1990s when he started overseeing medical services at New England programs that offered methadone...
Original Blog Date: March 25, 2016 By the late 1990s, tremendous strides had been achieved in elevating the accessibility and quality of addiction treatment in the U.S., yet leaders in the field were beginning to...