William Stauffer revisits William White’s warning about the collapse of 19th-century addiction treatment and asks whether today’s field is repeating old patterns. From profit incentives to weakened community roots, he challenges treatment systems to measure success by long-term recovery, not service volume.

William Stauffer, August's Author of the Month, proposes a Recovery Bill of Responsibilities. He argues that recovery is a shared commons requiring stewardship, ethical leadership, service, accountability, protection from exploitation, and responsibility to future generations.

Robert Kent argues that Purdue Pharma settlement money should be treated differently from other opioid funds. He calls for affected families to review spending decisions and urges governments to direct the money toward families carrying the trauma, loss, and generational consequences of the opioid epidemic.