Addiction
Recovery Curriculum - 301
The research on how AA works points to one mechanism above the others: social network restructuring. Who you spend time with, and what those people expect of you, shapes recovery more than almost anything else.
The Recovery Curriculum - 201b
Knowing that medication works and being able to access it are two different things. For many people, the gap between the two is where recovery ends before it starts.
Addiction
The Recovery Curriculum - 201
Many people approach treatment with expectations shaped by everything except firsthand experience...and that picture rarely matches what they find. Sometimes, it's considerably better than imagined, and sometimes it fails to meet expectations.
Recovery Curriculum
The Recovery Curriculum - 101
We tell people addiction is a disease. Then we treat them like moral failures. We talk about community, connection, and peer support as the foundations of recovery. Then we place the entire burden on the individual and call it personal responsibility and accountability.
