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05/18/2018

May 11, 2018 Bill White The Curse of Low Recovery Expectations (Part I)  Inebriate, dipsomaniac, drug addict, drunkard, alcoholic, dope fiend, wino, ju**ie, crackhead, speed freak, dirty, strung out, blitzed, bombed, ripped, and on and on for more than two centuries. Stigmatizing words, slogans, an...

07/21/2016

June 24, 2016 Bill White “Nature will find a way; so will recovery!” The celebration of multiple pathways and styles of addiction recovery is a central tenet of the new addiction recovery advocacy movement. And yet if one listens carefully to the diversity of recovery stories rising from this moveme...

06/18/2016

June 17, 2016 Bill White Recovery Coaching: Toward Role Clarity The title “recovery coach” and the function of “recovery coaching” are being claimed by people of widely varying education, training, and experience. Though the roots of recovery coaching date to the early nineteenth century, the formal...

05/24/2016

May 20, 2016 Bill White Lifting the Veil of Recovery Invisibility “How does it feel to be a problem…It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of the world that looks on in amused c...

04/20/2016

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June 12, 2015 Bill White “Hello, My Name is…” (Portraits of Recovery) The Phoenix does not mourn what lies in its ashes; the serpent does not mourn its old skin. (Arthur Frank)If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, wha…

04/18/2016

March 18, 2016 Bill White Rethinking the Characterization of Addiction as a “Relapsing Condition” (Bill White and Paula Davies Scimeca) Defining addiction as a “chronically relapsing” condition, in spite of its advocacy by leading organizations in the addictions field (see here and here), has genera…

03/18/2016

August 23, 2013 Bill White Recoveries Up in Smoke I will be posting a blog in the coming weeks that summarizes the results of a new health survey with imbedded questions related to addiction recovery.  The results will underscore once again the role ni****ne addiction plays in the compromised health…

03/08/2016

March 4, 2016 Bill White Who Profits from Addiction/Recovery Stigma? The social stigma attached to addiction is most often portrayed as an attitudinal problem rooted in the lack of knowledge about alcohol, to***co, and other drug (ATOD) problems and the prevalence and methods through which they are…

03/01/2016

February 12, 2016 Bill White Recovery of the Unaffiliated The culture of recovery in the United States is recognized in popular and professional consciousness through its increasingly elaborate tribal organization. For more than 150 years, individuals seeking mutual support for the resolution of alc…

02/21/2016

February 5, 2016 Bill White Recovery and Personal Safety The professionalization and industrialization of addiction treatment was accompanied by a number of mechanisms aimed at protecting the safety of those being served: informed consent, confidentiality regulations, program accreditation standards…

02/21/2016

February 19, 2016 Bill White Disengaged Styles of Recovery (Bill White and Dr. John Kelly) The principle of “equifinality,” which states that the same developmental endpoint can be achieved by many different means, applies well to addiction recovery. A single pathway model of recovery from alcohol u…

01/30/2016

January 29, 2016 Bill White Remission/Recovery from Cannabis Use Disorders: New Findings Recent studies offer new insights into the prevalence and processes of remission/recovery from cannabis use disorders.When I first entered the rising addiction treatment system in the United States nearly half a…