Recovery Ramblings

Thoughts and reflections on mental health addictions recovery.

Growing SMART Lessons from SMART Recovery UK – 2010 to 2014

It is approaching a year since I left SMART Recovery here in the UK. The four years I spent with the organisation were some of the most exciting and rewarding of the 25+ years I have worked in the field of addictions and the thousands of people involved with the organisation achieved something very special. SMART Recovery is now a firmly established part of the recovery infrastructure in the UK, having gone from 40 weekly meetings to 500 meetings in just four years. Read more →

Interview with Bill White

“Addiction recovery mutual aid organizations have a long and rich international history, but the rate of growth and diversification of philosophy and methods of these organizations in recent decades is without historical precedent. What is emerging is an ever-growing network of secular, spiritual, and religious recovery mutual aid groups adapted to diverse cultural, political,and religious contexts yet increasingly connected into a larger global community of recovery via the power of the Internet. Read more →