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William Stauffer
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Join date: Dec 30, 2025
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Bill earned a Master of Social Work (MSW) and is the executive director of the Pennsylvania Recovery Organizations Alliance. He has been in long-term recovery since age 21 and has been actively engaged in public policy in the recovery arena for most of those years. He is also an adjunct professor of Social Work at Misericordia University.
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William Stauffer
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Aug 22, 2026 ∙ 6 min
Revisiting William White: The Collapse of 19th-Century Addiction Treatment: Could It Happen Again?
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.
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Aug 21, 2026 ∙ 11 min
Towards a Recovery Bill of Responsibilities: Stewardship of the Recovery Commons
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.
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Aug 15, 2026 ∙ 8 min
Ripples of Resiliency – Fifty Years Since Operation Understanding
William Stauffer looks back 50 years to Operation Understanding, when prominent Americans publicly stood up for recovery despite stigma, financial strain, and risk. He connects that courage to today's recovery movement and asks whether this generation will create the next ripple of community-grounded change.
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