Licensed counselor & certified addiction professional. Co-chair, NAADAC LGBTQIA2S+ Practice Standards Committee. President, Iowa Association for Addiction Professionals. NBCC Foundation MFP-AC Vice Chair. Faculty, Hazelden Betty Ford. Rural Iowa.
Recovery Curriculum
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.
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This is At the Margins — a publication about addiction, recovery, behavioral health, and the systems that shape all three. It is written from rural northwest Iowa, where the gaps are widest and the work is most unforgiving. It is written by a clinician, a counselor, a researcher, and someone who