William Stauffer argues that addiction care systems are becoming increasingly isolated from the people doing the work. He examines broken feedback loops, flawed metrics, shrinking treatment capacity, and the essential role of authentic face-to-face dialogue in long-term recovery outcomes.

Tammy Adler Foeller, founder of OpenDoor Women’s Recovery Alliance, recounts the day she stopped rescuing her daughter Stephanie during her addiction. . It was a desperate, faithful surrender that allowed her daughter to find sobriety, sober living, and eventually community.

Author and founder of Brain Body Recovery, Heather Dale, writes that understanding addiction is important—but insight alone may not be enough when the brain and body are still dysregulated.