Of all the laws going into effect this new year, few are more forward-looking than Oregon’s Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act. Voted into being as Measure 110, it flips the script on drug addiction and opts for treatment rather than criminalization. What is the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act? Perhaps the best way to sum up the Drug… Read More
Happy 2021 everyone! Let’s all make this brand new year the absolute luckiest brand new year any of us has ever lived! And then some! And why not? We’ve all spent 2020 on the hard side of the great equation. And that was on the better days. On the not so better days, well… Let’s just say they took the… Read More
Just because a myth has been around doesn’t mean it deserves to stay around. And that includes addiction myths. Especially since hanging on to the wrong addiction myth can have such serious consequences. That’s what Maurice Lee believes anyway. And we’re of a mind to agree. See Lee’s the COO of Navos, a non-profit behavioral healthcare concern in Seattle. That… Read More
This story is as much about knitting and addiction as it is about a knitting addiction. But that’s not why we’re calling it sober yarn. Sure, it was tempting. After all, the Dad Joke is right there, ready to be told. But we don’t joke about addiction. We don’t Dad Joke about it either. See, we chose the title sober… Read More
Recovery Capital is a lot like any other form of capital — most folks have at least a little and some folks have a whole lot. How much you may actually need however is a largely personal matter. It depends upon your habit. It depends upon your past. And yes, it even depends upon your location. Because what and how… Read More
