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Recover! and Recovery Now

Something quite interesting is happening in the world of addiction publishing. The unending stream of books on drugs, drug policy, addiction, and addiction treatment are being supplemented with a new genre of books focused, not on how to initiate recovery from addiction (a break from an unending stream of early recovery memoirs), but on how to live as a person in long-term recovery. This reflects a larger shift in the alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems arenas from pathology and intervention paradigms toward a recovery paradigm as the field’s central governing image. These new offerings span texts developed within recovery fellowships, such as Living Clean: The Journey Continues (Narcotics Anonymous, 2012) and such trade publications as 1000 Years of Sobriety (William Borchert and Michael Fitzpatrick, 2010), Okay, I Quit. Now What? (Mark Tuschel, 2011), Being Sober (Harry Haroutunian, 2013), Alcohol Addiction Recovery (Dave Ball, 2014) and What Addicts Know (Christopher Lawford, 2014), to name just a few. Two recently released books further bridge this transition in focus from recovery initiation to life in long-term recovery: Stanton Peele’s Recover! and the Hazelden publication, Recovery Now: A Basic Text for Today.