Joshua Bennett-Johnson shares an anonymous client's path from severe alcohol and cocaine use to three years of recovery. The turning point was not rejection or forced readiness, but continued connection, client autonomy, urgent medical care, and one steady message: you are not alone.

A letter from a former patient reminded Robert Kent how easily treatment leaders can focus on problems and forget the lives their programs helped change. He argues for both effective treatment and accountability - and for remembering that recovery can lead to a life beyond the 'normal' a person knew before.

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.