Excerpt (Wix - 350 characters max) Pam Jones Lanhart honors her son Jake, who died from an accidental overdose at 24, and shares how her family moved from fear, confrontation, and crisis toward connection. Their experience helped inspire Thrive Family Recovery Resources and a mission to give families evidence-informed support sooner.

Jason Shiers launches our Future of Substance Use Treatment Series by asking whether addiction is only pathology—or also an attempted solution. He explores how treatment can honor disease, trauma, psychology, and neuroscience while helping people heal the needs beneath the behavior and move from recovery toward flourishing

William Stauffer once doubted he could reach 39 hours without using. Now he is approaching 39 years in continuous recovery. He explains why abstinence remains essential for him and how recovery built humility, integrity, empathy, gratitude, resilience, purpose, and a better version of himself.