Recovery Review articles by Bill Stauffer
Recovery Review is a community of recovery-oriented experts on addiction and addiction recovery that was founded by Jason Schwartz of Michigan. The background of contributions who live across the US and the UK include public policy, research, physician health programs, methadone maintenance, collegiate recovery, urban crisis services, hospital-based mental health and substance use disorder services, and teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels. I began contributing to Recovery Review in November of 2019.
2025
01 Addiction Treatment and the Multiple Echoes of History—Lessons to Heed
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02 Macro Level Moral Injury Within the Sud Care System—Our Unaddressed Imperative
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​03 Low Expectations Yield Low Rates of Recovery From Addiction
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04 Recovery Capitalists and the Industries of Dependency
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05 Revisiting the Work of William White: The Historical Essence of Addiction Counseling (2004)
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06 Revisiting the Work of William White: A Commitment to Ethical Action (1994)
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07 Recovery Languaging: Moving From Normalizing Healing to Normalizing Use and Pathology
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08 Codependency, a Helpful Concept Turned Toxic: A Lesson From Our Own History
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09 Revisiting the Work of William White: Sick Systems in Treatment Interview with John DuCane 1989
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10 Revisiting William White: A History of Contempt: Countertransference and the Dangers of Service Integration
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11 Revisiting William White: We Need More Recovery Custodians and Fewer Recovery Rock Stars (2020)
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12 Considering the Facets of Whites Laws of Recovery Dynamics
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2024
01 Coopted and Colonized: Lessons From the Washingtonian Movement
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02 Parallels on Burnout and Buffering Across Healthcare & SUD Care Systems
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03 From Fordrunken to SUD: A Reflection on Shifting Labels and Stigma
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04 Alcohol—Our Normalized Drug of Destruction
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05 Valuing the Forest and Not Just the Individual Trees
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06 Drug Use, Human Freedom, and the Question of Harm to Society
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07 The First Lady of Recovery Advocacy Stamp Reveal, April 5th, 2024
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08 Addiction & Recovery Capitalist—Hustlers Hawking Drugs, Hucksters Selling Recovery
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​​09 Loss of Institutional Knowledge—a Critical Tipping Point in the SUD Workforce Crisis
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10 William White’s Opening Keynote to the Inaugural National Conference on Addiction Recovery Science: Presenting the Words of One of Our Most Respected Recovery Thought Leaders at This Historic Gathering
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11 The Keel of the New Recovery Advocacy Movement—Our Steering Concepts
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12 Building a Recovery Community of Barn Raisers
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13 We Keep Pressing the “Easy” Button, and It Still Is Not Working
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14 A Recovery Disoriented System of Care
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15 Revisiting the Algorithm of SUD Care Discrimination
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16 Ways of Knowing and Our AOD Treatment & Recovery Workforce
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17 Swimming in the River Lethe: Immersion in the Un-Mindfulness of Our Own History
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18 Preserving and Building on Our Knowledge: The Vanishing Role of Special Libraries (B. Stauffer, W. White)
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19 The Recovery We See—Healing Across the Spectrum of SUDs
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20 Bias Against Recovery in PA Cannabis Certification Program
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21 The Devolution of PRSS and the Lost Lessons of Earlier Eras
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22 Standing Up for Recovery: The Example of Mercedes McCambridge
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23 Overdoses in Decline: Progress on a One-Dimensional Measure
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24 Standing Up for Recovery: The Example of Mercedes McCambridge
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26 Authentic vs. Astroturfed Recovery Events & Recovery Marketing
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27 Once Bitten Twice Shy – the Recovery Community and the False Promise of Harmless Drugs
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28 Societal Hikikomori and the Importance of Bridging Community Capital
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29 John McKnight: A Voice for Vital Community – November 22, 1931 – November 2, 2024
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30 An Interview With Maryanne Frangules of the Massachusetts Organization for Addiction Recovery (MOAR)
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31 Hats Off to Those Who Do the Toughest Job They Will Ever Love
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32 Occam’s Razor and the Industries of Addiction
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2023
01 Developing Broad Consensus on How We Conceptualize the Resolution of Substance Misuse
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02 Building a Recovery Affirming Care System on a Foundation More Solid Than Stigma
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03 It Is Time We Seize the Opportunity To Address Sud Stigma in the U.S. Healthcare System
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04 Moving Beyond a System of Care Designed to Fail Us
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05 Recovery Review – Looking Beyond Crisis, Our Opportunities Are All About Connection
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06 Building Bridges Between Islands of Healing – Reposted From Jan 2022
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07 The Few, the Proud, the Under Resourced – Our SUD Workforce
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08 Early Notes From the Post-Pandemic Addiction Tsunami
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​​09 Simple Answers to Complex Problems
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10 AI, Substance Misuse, Addiction, and the Tragedy of the Commons
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11 Portraying Abstinence Recovery As Puritanical Is in the Interest of Those Who Sell Addictive Drugs
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12 The Perfect Storm Is Foundering Our SUD Interventional Infrastructure
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13 Seeking Common Ground in Our Understanding of Addiction
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14 Where Are They Going To Heal?
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15 Effective Drug Policy Must Look Beyond Life Preservers
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16 Social Movements End – So How Will Ours End?
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17 Antidiscrimination Language and the Hughes Act of 1970
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18 Parallel Processes – Walking Our Talk Across the Behavioral Health Service System
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19 The 1981 “Alcoholism – You Can Beat It” USPS Stamp Debacle: Lessons Moving Forward
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20 Caring Enough To Count – How We Die From Drug Disuse and Addiction in America
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21 Reflections on the Newly-Released Recovery Among Adults in the US Report From SAMHSA
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22 Can We Please Stop Saying Recovery From Addiction Is Possible or Expected in America?
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23 Cerebral Hypoxia & the “Opioid Epidemic”—an Elephant in the Room
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24 Restoring American Community—Recovery Community as a Catalyst
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25 Every Stick Has Two Ends: A Discourse on the Consequences of Drug Use Normalization
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26 Establishing a Recovery Community Bedrock of Mutual Interest To Build a Future On
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27 Recovery Is _________: “Scope of Practice” Podcast With the Connecticut Certification Board
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2022
01 Creating a Broad & Inclusive Recovery Plank
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02 What Are We Doing Once We Keep People Alive?
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03 Building Bridges Between Islands of Healing
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04 No More Waiting for Godot—Let’s Follow Our Addiction Care Laws
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05 Legitimacy, the Bedrock of Consensus Building
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06 Life, Death, and Recovery, Right Under Our Noses
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07 Towards More Compassionate Care for Not Just Another Medical Disorder
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08 Spanning the Chasm Between Us
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09 Headwinds for Recovery Community Self Agency
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11 Loss of Institutional Knowledge: A Critical Tipping Point in the SUD Workforce Crisis
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12 The Algorithm of Medical Care Discrimination
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14 Are We Serving As Good Stewards in Our Collective Responsibility to the Recovery Community?
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15 Pre-Addiction as a Missing Concept in Articulating the Dynamics of Healing & Recovery
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16 Embracing Recovery Capital Within Our Care System to Save It
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17 The Recovery We See
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18 Those Who Control the Teachings of a Movement’s History Control Its Future
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19 Developing Narratives of Healing to Overcome Deaths of Despair
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21 Cannabis: Demon Drug or Miracle Medicinal Plant, the Dilemma of Binary Thinking
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22 To Move Forward, Our Institutions Must Take a Hard Look at Their Internalized Stigma Against Us
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23 Holding Space for Healing & Resiliency: What We Know and Yet Still Fail to Apply