Pillar guide
The AI Identity Problem: Can AI Agents Hijack Your Digital Identity?
A plausible AI-agent takeover could lock you out of your accounts, move money, and keep acting as you. What is possible now, and how do we prevent it?
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Insights
A publication for honest analysis, lived experience, and the systems questions that shape recovery, reentry, and public policy.
Flagship essays
Pillar guides
Long-form entry points for AI identity risk and drug-policy reform — start here, then browse the full series.
Pillar guide
Drug Legalization Series Part 1: Drug Legalization Isn’t Endorsement. It’s Regulation and Harm Reduction.
Drug legalization isn’t endorsement. Part 1 explains why punishment fails, why reentry is deadly, and why harm reduction saves lives.
Latest essays
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What's a Good Recovery Workbook for Treatment Groups or Reentry Programs?
Recovery workbook for treatment groups and reentry: A Vision of Hope 90-day Workbook with daily accountability, plus ReturnPath for programs.
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Reentry Resources That Actually Help You Rebuild
Practical reentry resources after prison: 211, CareerOneStop, and SAMHSA for concrete needs, plus identity work families can support at home.
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What Curriculum Fits a 90-Day Inpatient or Short-Stay Track?
Identity-based workbook pacing for 90-day inpatient and short-stay residential tracks. ReturnPath complements clinical care, not a replacement.
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How Recovery Memoirs Treat Identity and Change
How recovery memoirs treat identity and change: shame, repair, and becoming someone new. Narrative psychology, not clinical neuroscience advice.
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Peer Recovery Groups for Young Adults Leaving Treatment or Justice Settings
Age-specialized peer recovery groups for young adults leaving treatment or justice settings: belonging, identity work, and guardrails beside clinical care.
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Why Guided Writing Works in Recovery (and What Research Says)
Guided journal for recovery and workbook science: what expressive writing research shows, and how structured daily practice differs from a blank notebook.
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When Recovery Stories Help, and When They Harm
Ethical use of recovery narratives: consent, coercion, co-option, and trauma-informed storytelling for facilitators, peers, and authors.
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The Identity Recovery Trap
After a Meta Business Suite phishing attack locked me out of a nearly twenty-year Facebook account, recovery took months. The hard part was not the password. It was proving I was me inside automated support.
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Drug Legalization Series Part 25: Punishing Pain or Saving Lives — The Real Choice in Drug Policy Reform
Part 25 reframes drug policy as punishing pain or saving lives: public health, overdose prevention, treatment on demand, and risk-based regulation.
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What Is Identity-Based Recovery?
What is identity-based recovery? It focuses on who you are becoming, not only behaviors to stop, via three self-identifying steps and ReturnPath beside clinical care.
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When Looking Like You Is No Longer Proof
Can deepfakes fool identity verification? Yes, when synthetic faces, voices, and ID images arrive together. How remote proofing works, where it weakens, and what still holds.
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The AI Identity Problem: Can AI Agents Hijack Your Digital Identity?
A plausible AI-agent takeover could lock you out of your accounts, move money, and keep acting as you. What is possible now, and how do we prevent it?
Topics
Recovery & Reentry
Essays on addiction recovery, prison reentry, identity-based healing, and evidence-informed program design.
Artificial Intelligence & Society
Long-form analysis of AI, identity, labor, trust, and the social systems reshaped by machine intelligence.
Leadership & Systems
Essays on leadership, organizational design, and the systems thinking required to build durable change.
Justice & Public Policy
Policy essays on criminal justice, drug reform, harm reduction, and evidence-based governance — outcomes, tradeoffs, and reform that holds up.
Purpose & Identity
Essays on identity, purpose, transformation, and becoming who you intend to be — setbacks, redemption, curriculum, and daily practice.
Books & Writing
Essays on memoir craft, reading lists, and honest storytelling in recovery culture — books that mirror hard change for programs and readers.
For program directors
Licensing ReturnPath for recovery, reentry, or treatment settings? Explore the curriculum hub or send a message.
Series
Artificial Intelligence & Society
Essays on how AI affects identity, trust, institutions, and human accountability when software gains power through permission, speed, and scale.
Drug Legalization Series
Andrew Drasen's multi-part essay series on drug legalization, regulation, harm reduction, reentry, and evidence-based drug policy reform.