What Allies in Recovery Adds to CRAFT
AIR sees the family as integral to the healing of the person with substance use disorder. It’s a way of thinking you can make your own.
Category: SOCIETAL MYTHS – stigma
Debunked in 3 ½ Minutes: Harmful Myths About Family and Recovery
It can’t be said too often: substance use disorder is a disease. Yet unlike nearly all other diseases, it’s still often treated as a moral failure…
“Addiction Is a Disease That Thrives in The Dark”: A Younger Sister’s Plea For an End to Fear and Shame
Sam Fowler and her parents spent many years hiding her brother’s substance use disorder (SUD) from the world. The experience convinced Sam that open…
Stigma – Changing the Story
Stigma is a story someone makes up about a situation. CRAFT provides a framework, and helps you take the story apart and change it, Consciously addres…
Stigma – Changing the Story
Stigma is a story someone makes up about a situation. CRAFT provides a framework, and helps you take the story apart and change it, Consciously addres…
Podcast #78 — Is “Addiction” a Bad Word? Removing Stigma from Our Language
Why all the hubbub about stigmatizing language when it comes to Substance Use? Is "addiction" a bad word? Laurie MacDougall expl…
Podcast #76 — Shame, Shame and More Shame (and Its Good Friend, Substance Use)
Shame plays a prominent role where substance use has become problematic: the person misusing substances often feels shame about being stuck in the pat…
The Power of Language
Laurie MacDougall discusses the dramatic impact that language has on our discussions of Substance Use Disorder. Let's work together to reduce stig…
Moving Past Stigma
Stigma is a powerful deterrent to treatment, recovery and hope. As we are all aware, the addiction crisis is not stopping or even slowing down. I beli…
Podcast #19—Interview with Writer & Activist Alicia Cook
This week's episode of Coming up for Air may have had some technical difficulty, but Laurie and Annie powered through it to welcome their guest Th…