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Recovery culture, stigma, family, faith, workplace recovery.

Buprenorphine Is Now a Foster Care Prevention Tool. That's Worth Sitting With.

The federal government made it possible to keep families together using buprenorphine. Nearly one in three foster care placements involves parental drug use.

ACF's February 2026 Title IV-E expansion now covers 50% federal match for MOUD when parents are at imminent foster care risk. 53,000 children entered care in 2024 due to parental drug use.

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Recovery Is Their Credential. It's Also Their Vulnerability.

New qualitative research names the 'wounded healer' paradox in peer support work: the recovery credential that gets you hired is the same thing that makes the job uniquely dangerous for your own sobriety.

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The Peer Recovery Workers Who Got Their Grants Back — and Still Don't Know If They'll Have a Job in September

SAMHSA reversed its January 2026 grant terminations within 24 hours. Peer recovery support workers got their funding back — on paper. What's still missing is any certainty it will last.

04Lived Experience & CommunityMay 30

Ryan Hampton Made TIME's 100 Most Influential in Health. Ask Him Why Peer Support Works.

Ryan Hampton's TIME100 Health recognition is the moment to examine what peer support actually does neurologically — and why defunding 4,200 peer support positions since January isn't a budget line. It's a clinical cost.

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Buprenorphine Is Now a Foster Care Prevention Tool. That's Worth Sitting With.

More in Lived Experience & Community

Recovery Is Their Credential. It's Also Their Vulnerability.

The Peer Recovery Workers Who Got Their Grants Back — and Still Don't Know If They'll Have a Job in September

Ryan Hampton Made TIME's 100 Most Influential in Health. Ask Him Why Peer Support Works.

The Opposite of Addiction Is Community — And We Keep Defunding It

No Pill for This: The Lived Reality of Cocaine and Meth Recovery

The substance class we haven't talked about: inhalants, and why nitrous oxide is in the headlines for the worst reason

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The 'wounded healer paradox': what a new study tells us about peer support and relapse risk

If Someone You Love Has a Substance Use Disorder: The Family Guide