Do Your Own Research: Recovery Rhetoric is Full Of Shit

In this episode I talk about how the dominant disease model often misdiagnoses what recovery can truly look like and why labeling people as "permanently broken" robs them of hope and healing.Join me as I break down:-Why the idea that substance use disorder is a chronic, relapsing brain disease is incomplete and sometimes harmful-The danger of reinforcing identity labels that keep people stuck in a cycle of fear and shame-How societal and treatment systems profit from a narrative of perpetual damage and what needs to change