At Recovering Hope Treatment Center, family-centered care isn’t a tagline—it’s a lived experience. From onsite trauma-informed daycare to coordinated prenatal care and walking trails where moms and children can reconnect, every part of our model is designed to support healing without separation. Because when a mother heals, a family begins to thrive.

New brain imaging research confirms what those of us in the addiction field have long understood: methamphetamine use doesn’t just affect behavior—it physically alters the brain. Structural changes in areas tied to impulse control and craving help explain why “just quit” isn’t just dismissive—it’s scientifically inaccurate. This is a brain disease, and it’s time we start treating it like one.

Emerging research is challenging the assumption that cannabis supports long-term trauma recovery. A recent 12-week study in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry found that individuals with both PTSD and cannabis use disorder who achieved sustained abstinence experienced significantly greater reductions in PTSD symptoms than those who continued using. While preliminary, the findings suggest that ongoing cannabis use may slow improvement in key areas like avoidance, negative mood, and hyperarousal. In early recovery, sharing data like this isn’t about coercion—it’s about informed consent, clinical transparency, and helping clients make decisions grounded in evidence rather than assumption.

When public tragedy happens, it does not stay outside the therapy room. In this piece, Carmichael Finn explores what clinical supervisors owe their staff during moments of collective grief—offering practical, ethical guidance for leading with steadiness when both clinicians and clients are impacted at the same time.

Emerging research is challenging the assumption that cannabis supports long-term trauma recovery. A recent 12-week study in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry found that individuals with both PTSD and cannabis use disorder who achieved sustained abstinence experienced significantly greater reductions in PTSD symptoms than those who continued using. While preliminary, the findings suggest that ongoing cannabis use may slow improvement in key areas like avoidance, negative mood, and hyperarousal. In early recovery, sharing data like this isn’t about coercion—it’s about informed consent, clinical transparency, and helping clients make decisions grounded in evidence rather than assumption.

Vaping around babies and children isn’t harmless. In this article, Sadie Broekemeier, MA, LADC, LPCC, explains how secondhand and thirdhand vape exposure can affect children’s health, why developing lungs and brains are especially vulnerable, and what caregivers can do to reduce risk and keep kids safe.By Carmichael Finn, MA, LMFT, LADC, AADCR-MN | Recovering Hope Executive Director