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.
Gus Raymond
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.
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.
News
We Are Here to Make Good Trouble
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