EPISODE · Mar 8, 2026 · 20 MIN
Do Your Own Research: Recovery Rhetoric is Full Of Shit
from Burn the Stigma’s Recovery Rebellion: Challenging the dogma. Dismantling the stigma. Exposing the BS · host Burn The Stigma|Tara Grace
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
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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
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Do Your Own Research: Recovery Rhetoric is Full Of Shit
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