Recent decades have witnessed calls for the cultural and political mobilization of people in addiction recovery as well as the subsequent rise of a new recovery advocacy movement in the U.S. and internationally.
Many people in self-proclaimed addiction recovery experience compromised health and premature death due to a unique form of conceptual blindness the failure to perceive nicotine dependence on par with the other drug dependencies they have shed from their lives.
Recovery Community
In 2002, I penned twin essays entitled ? Recovery as a Heroic JourneyAnd ?The Boon of Recovery? that were later included in the book, Let?s Go Make Some History: Chronicles of the New Recovery Advocacy Movement. As a further invitation to explore these collected papers, the second of these essays is displayed below. (All proceeds from this book support Faces and Voices of Recovery.)
In 2002, I penned twin essays entitled Recovery as a Heroic Journey And The Boon of Recovery that were later included in the book, Let's Go Make Some History: Chronicles of the New Recovery Advocacy Movement.
Museum of African American Addictions Recovery
Recovery within Rural and Frontier Communities
Successful social movements permeate key areas of cultural life, as is evidenced by the pervasive and enduring influence of the civil rights, womens, disability, and LGBT rights movements in the United States.
Dependency in Addiction Recovery
Celebrate Recovery