The last part of Bill White’s 2012 Norman E. Zinberg Memorial Lecture from Harvard. Bill says he is not a teacher of these issues about recovery, but still a student. He encourages us all to be students of this rapidly changing ecology of recovery in the US. Bill also looks at what we need to do in the future in relation to recovery and recovery-based care.
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 Focus: I choose to make exercise a “play break” that can be a highlight of my day.
We are physical animals, and daily exercise is essential to our health. In previous generations people’s days were filled with physical activity, but today we must find ways to fit movement into our lives. Our parents and grandparents needed to walk regularly and perform many other physical tasks to get through their days. But now we sit on our bottoms most of the time, and our main exercise is pushing buttons.
You can pick from a wide array of options: dancing, walking, swimming, skating, martial arts, cycling, tennis, yoga, to name a few. As the yogis say, “Follow your bliss.” Because exercise does more than just boost your physical health — it can enhance your mental and spiritual health as well.
The best way to achieve the full spectrum of “body and soul healing” accessible through movement is to approach this powerful therapy with the excitement and pleasure we knew in childhood, running outside on a beautiful day to play with friends. Instead of a dreaded “workout,” exercise then becomes a much anticipated “play break” that can be a highlight of your day.
Excerpted from the article:
Healing Moves: An Ideal Self-Care Strategy
by Carol Krucoff and Mitchell Krucoff, M.D.
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New Jersey Gov. Christie surprises some with broad call for offender treatment
Details to come on priority item from State of the State address.
February 1, 2012 by Gary A. Enos, Editor
Christie has witnessed the societal impact of substance use problems from numerous perspectives, including as a prosecutor and as a former board member of a New Jersey addiction treatment organization (Daytop Village). In addition, media reports pointed out that the governor’s wife has engaged in volunteer work at a number of treatment facilities in the state.Stating that “everyone deserves a second chance,” Christie proposed in last month’s State of the State speech a policy shift that would divert nonviolent offenders to mandatory treatment. Many media outlets lauded the proposal, with the Philadelphia Inquirer writing in an editorial that the governor “smartly recognizes that addiction is still winning the 40-year-old war on drugs, so he is changing up New Jersey’s strategy.”
Few details are known about how the Christie administration will seek to achieve this goal, both financially and programmatically. More information could be forthcoming in the governor’s budget proposal, due to be released later this month.Debra L. Wentz, CEO of the New Jersey Association of Mental Health and Addiction Agencies, Inc., said some as-yet unsubstantiated reports have indicated that an interdepartmental task force that was formed by the administration last year to centralize anti-drug efforts could drive much of the change the governor wants to see.Wentz adds that others have reported that a plan to divert offenders to treatment could be initiated as a pilot program in a couple of New Jersey counties. At this point, she says, her organization’s advocacy focus regarding the administration’s proposal will center on ensuring that treatment services be evidence-based and delivered by credentialed providers.
In a Jan. 29 commentary she wrote for the Star-Ledger newspaper, Wentz stated that “Christie is taking advantage of the confluence of public sentiment, fiscal imperative, compassion and good policy that has the potential to change lives and definitively solve the state’s fiscal crisis.” She added that at present, fewer than 7% of state residents with substance use disorders are able to access needed treatment services.
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