In 1997, Michael Boyle, the CEO of Fayette Companies, the primary behavioral health provider in Peoria, Illinois had a visionary idea: redesign addiction treatment based on models of chronic disease management that are emerging within primary health care.
In recovery, people lead full, productive and healthy lives.
The death of a person undergoing medical treatment is cause for serious reflection on the part of caregivers.
Federal, state, and local behavioral health authorities have continued to embrace Recovery Management (RM) and Recovery-oriented Systems of Care (ROSC) as new organizing paradigms for addressing substance use and mental health disorders at clinical and community levels.
Collegiate Recovery
Between 1986 and 2003, I served as the evaluator of an innovative approach to the treatment of addicted women with histories of neglect or abuse of their children.
I have been delighted in recent years to witness the blossoming of a recovery advocacy movement in Canada.
Recovery History
In 2006, addiction journalist Maia Szalavitz published Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids--a well-researched and well-written review on harm in the name of help within youth boot camps, teen rehab, and other 'get tough' programs for children and adolescents.