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Tell us your views on the working definition of recovery from mental and substance use disorders. What do you like about the definition, and what changes do you suggest?

freedom from substance or mental-process addiction; the cessation of worshipping a subst. or procest

Delete "Disorder" until courts stop ordering substance and mental abuse. Recovery from mental abuse and substance (e.g., money, food) abuse does not include recovery from the effects of that abuse, which is restoration. When a Wall Street CEO stops defrauding, he recovers his mind from his abuse. Maybe his victims recover from his mental abuse. When he returns his salary and bonuses, he recovers his soul from his money-worship (substance abuse). Maybe his victims recover from his substance abuse.

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    Elisabeth GreenElisabeth Green shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

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