Recovery Curriculum 301b Recovery is the reconstruction of a self. Whether that rebuilding works depends on whether the community waiting on the other side was built with you in mind.
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 - 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.