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Lower Teen Drinking is Progress But Not the Whole Story says Awakening Founder

Awakening's Co-Founder and Executive Director David van der Velde has written a new article about recent reports that teenagers are […]

David van der Velde: The AI Transition Is More Than a Skills Gap

Awakening's Co-Founder and Executive Director David van der Velde has written a new article arguing that the national conversation about […]

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David van der Velde on Why the Word "Alcoholic" Still Matters

Executive Director David van der Velde has written a new article pushing back on the growing movement to retire the […]

Awakening's Founder: California Needs a Fuller Continuum on Homelessness, Addiction, and Recovery

Awakening's Co-Founder and Executive Director David van der Velde has written a new article arguing that California's homelessness debate is […]

Awakening Founder Discusses Study that Shows "Surrender" Increases Recovery Success

David van der Velde, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Awakening Recovery, has written an article on LinkedIn that discusses recent […]

David van der Velde on why Treatment Providers Must Raise the Standard

Awakening's Co-Founder and Executive Director has written an article that takes on the unfortunate perception problem that the field of […]

Compassionate Accountability Needs a Real Path Home - an Article by David van der Velde

Awakening's Executive Director has written an article on LinkedIn that discusses compassionate accountability through the lens of harm reduction policies […]

David van der Velde Takes on Recovery and Psychedelic Treatment

For years, parts of the recovery world and parts of the mental health world have often talked past each other. […]

How Recovery Becomes Sustainable by David Van der Velde

Beyond the abstinence from drugs or alcohol, what are the inner changes that happen that make recovery sustainable? This is […]

October 8, 2025

Recovery as a Blueprint for Alignment by David Van Der Velde

In a recent article on Thrive Global, Our co-founding Exec. Dir. David Vandervelde discusses the intersection of his own recovery […]

David Van Der Velde on the Need to Focus More on Non-Fatal Overdoses

In a recent article on Thrive Global, Awakening Recovery Founder and Executive Director David Van Der Velde weighs in on […]

December 1, 2024

David Van Der Velde Discusses Staying Sober During the Holidays

David Van Der Velde shared a post to Thrive Global about how to approach the holidays this year for those […]

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