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William White
William (Bill) White is a senior research consultant at Chestnut Health Systems/Lighthouse Institute and has served as a volunteer consultant to Faces & Voices of Recovery since its inception. He has a Master's degree in Addiction Studies and has worked in the addictions field since 1969. He has authored or coauthored more than 350 articles and monographs and fifteen books, including Slaying the Dragon: The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America and Let’s Go Make Some History: Chronicles of the New Addiction Recovery Advocacy Movement. A library of Bill’s writings can be found at www.williamwhitepapers.com. Bill can be reached at bwhite@chestnut.org
- Newsletter Articles
- Publications
- Philadelphia, 2011
- Materials from Recovery Symposium: Philadelphia, PA, May 2, 2008
Newsletter Articles from Bill White
Bill White has written a number of articles for a range of publications that are now available for recovery advocates to publish in their newsletters and publications. Check them out and let us know how you’ve used them.
Recovery Radio in Philadelphia (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 245 kb)
Recovery Carriers (Adobe Acrobat, pdf, 107kb)
Adolescent Recovery: What We Need to Know (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 214 kb)
A Recovery Revolution in Philadelphia (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 36 kb)
An Anniversary Tribute to a First Lady (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 340kb)
A New Recovery Advocacy Movement (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 32 kb)
Believe it or Not (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 15 kb)
Confessions of an A.A. History Buff (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 28 kb)
Tales from a Jag House (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 19 kb)
Recovery as a Heroic Journey (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 43 kb)
Recovery in Native America (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 20 kb)
History Corner-Intervention Keeley Style (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 18 kb)
History Corner-The Jacoby Club and A.A. (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 19 kb)
History Corner-The Drunkard's Club (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 18 kb)
History Corner-Recovery Advocacy is not a Recovery Program (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 20 kb)
History Corner-The Eight Secrets of A.A.'s Survival (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 24kb)
The Voice of History-A Question of Justice: Recovery and Civil Rights (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 23 kb)
The Voice of History-Listening to Meth: Lessons from an Earlier Epidemic (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 17 kb)
The Voice of History-Sponsorship and Peer-based Recovery Support Services (P-BRSS) (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 18 kb)
Publications from Bill White
Recovery/Remission from Substance Use Disorders (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 1.92mb)
Narcotics Anonymous and the Pharmacotherapeutic Treatment of Opiod Addiction in the United States (Adobe Acrobat 311.12 kb)
Smoking and Addiction Recovery (For People in Recovery) (Adobe Acrobat 65 kb)
Smoking and Addiction Recovery (For Addiction Professionals) (Adobe Acrobat 49 kb)
Recovery Support Resources in Rural and Frontier Areas: A Call for Research and Action (Adobe Acrobat 58.19 kb)
Parenting in the Context of Addiction Recovery: Critical Research Questions (Adobe Acrobat 47.18 kb)
Relapse is Not part of recovery (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 27.05 kb)
Community Recovery (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 96 kb)
Recovery and Citizenship (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 108 kb)
Recovery-Oriented Methadone Maintenance (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 1.01 MB)
Alcohol/Drug/Substance “Abuse”: The History and (Hopeful) Demise of a Pernicious Label (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 27.6 kb)
Long-Term Strategies to Reduce the Stigma Attached to Addiction, Treatment and Recovery within the City of Philadelphia (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 261 kb)
The Recovery Revolution: Will it include children, adolescents, and transition age youth? (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 548 kb)
The Role of Partnership in Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care: The Philadelphia Experience (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 106 KB)
Recovery Resource Mapping: Results of a Philadelphia Recovery Home Survey (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 262KB )
A Commentary on "Consumer": Language, Stigma, and Recovery Representation (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 39KB)
Peer-based Addiction Recovery Support: History, Theory, Practice and Scientific Evaluation (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 2.03MB)
The Recovery Paradigm and the Future of Medication-Assisted Treatment (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 30kb)
Peer-based Recovery Support, A Working Bibliography (Adobe Acrobat.pdf, 296 KB)
Recovery Management and Recovery Oriented Systems of Care: Scientific Rationale and Promising Practices (Adobe Acrobat.pdf, 1MB)
Generational Patterns of Resistance and Recovery Among Families with Histories of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems: What We Need to Know (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 37.6 KB)
Adolescent Recovery: What We Need to Know (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 36KB)
In Search of the Neurobiology of Addiction Recovery: A Brief Commentary on Science and Stigma (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 40 kb)
Gender-specific Recovery Support Services:Evolution of the Women’s Community Recovery Center to the Women’s Recovery Community Center (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 86 kb)
The Recovery Community Organization: Toward A Working Definition and Description (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 77 kb)
Recovery Management: What if We Really Believed That Addiction Was a Chronic Disorder? (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 334 kb)
Recovery: Linking Addiction Treatment and Communities of Recovery: A Primer for Addiction Counselors and Recovery Coaches (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 323 kb)
Sponsor, Recovery Coach, Addiction Counselor: The Importance of Role Clarity and Role Integrity (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 110 kb)
The Varieties of Recovery Experience: A Primer for Addiction Treatment Professionals and Recovery Advocates* (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 178 kb)
Faith-Based Recovery: Its Historical Roots (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 29 kb)
Recovery Management and People of Color: Redesigning Addiction Treatment for Historically Disempowered Communities* (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 118 kb)
Recovery: The Next Frontier (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 44KB)
Treatment Works! Is it time for a new slogan? (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 202KB)
Recovery Rising: Radical Recovery in America (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 56KB)
The History and Future of Peer-based Addiction Recovery Support Services* (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 74 kb)
An Addiction Recovery Glossary: The Languages of American Communities of Recovery (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 187KB)
Where do we go from here? Recovery Summit October 4-6, 2001, St. Paul MN (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 15KB)
The Combined Addiction Disease Chronologies (with Caroline Acker, PhD)
A Day Is Coming: Visions of a New Recovery Advocacy Movement* (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 33KB)
The Campus as a Recovering Community* (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 34 kb)
Toward a New Recovery Movement: Historical Reflections on Recovery, Treatment and Advocacy* (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 101KB)
The Disease of Addiction
- Part I: Addiction as a Disease: Birth of a Concept* (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 35KB)
- Part II: The Rebirth of the Disease Concept of Alcoholism in the 20th Century* (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 23K)
- Part III: Addiction Disease Concept: Advocates and Critics
- Part IV: A Disease Concept for the 21st Century* (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 26KB)
Methadone and the Anti-medication Bias in Addiction Treatment (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 42 kb)
Ethics of Affiliation (with Elizabeth A. Tonai, MPH)
- Full Report* (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 167 KB)
- Executive Summary* (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 57 KB)
All In The Family: Addiction, Recovery, Advocacy* (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 142 kb)
The Rhetoric of Recovery Advocacy: An Essay On the Power of Language* (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 120K)
Recovery as a Heroic Journey (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 27KB)
Philadelphia
The Art of Recovery in Philadelphia: Murals as Instruments of Personal and Community Healing (Adobe Acrobat.pdf, 1.26 MB)
The Philadelphia Clean Machine: A Story of Basketball and Addiction Recovery (Adobe Acrobat. pdf, 20.15 KB)
Materials from Recovery Symposium: Philadelphia, PA, May 2, 2008
Symposium Agendas, Video Presentations, Powerpoint Presentations
Frontline Implementation of Recovery Management Principles: An Interview with Michael Boyle
Recovery as an Organizing Principle: An Interview with H. Westley Clark, MD, JD, MPH, CAS, FASAM
Creating a Recovery-Oriented System of Care: An Interview with Thomas A. Kirk, Jr., PhD
Recovery Management and Technology Transfer: An Interview with Lonnetta Albright
Recovery Management: What if We Really Believed Addiction was a Chronic Disorder?
A Recovery Revolution in Philadelphia
Sponsor, Recovery Coach, Addiction Counselor: The Importance of Role Clarity and Role Integrity
Linking Addiction Treatment & Communities of Recovery: A Primer for Addiction Counselors and Recovery Coaches
(William White, MA; Ernest Kurtz, PhD)
Recovery Management
(William White, MA; Ernest Kurtz, PhD; Mark Sanders, LCSW, CADC)
Ethical Guidelines for the Delivery of Peer-based Recovery Support
(William White, MA; PRO-ACT Ethics Workgroup)
The Role of Clinical Supervision in Recovery-oriented Systems of Behavioral Health Care
(William L. White, MA; Jason Schwartz, LMSW; The Philadelphia Clinical Supervision Workgroup; Angelo Adson, MSS, MLSP, MBA; Laverne Fish, MA; Charles Morgan, MD, FASAM, FAAFP; Larrissa Pettit, CA; Jacqueline Lanza, BS; Laura Boston-Jones, Med; Winston Collins, PhD; Dr. Harvey Weiner, DSA; Paul W. Toth, PhD)