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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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 the debate as a clear decision: punishing pain or saving lives, using public health drug policy, overdose prevention, treatment on demand, and risk-based drug regulation to reduce harm and restore accountability.
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What Is Identity-Based Recovery?
Identity-based recovery addresses who you are becoming, not only behaviors to stop, via the A Vision of Hope trilogy and ReturnPath.
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When Looking Like You Is No Longer Proof
Deepfakes can target documents, selfies, liveness checks, and supporting channels. Here is how remote identity verification works, where its assumptions weaken, 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?
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Drug Legalization Series Part 24: The Ethical Case for Regulation — What We Owe People We Know Will Use Drugs
Part 24 on drug legalization ethics: we owe regulation that cuts preventable death instead of outsourcing safety to a black market when use is inevitable.
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What Curriculum Can Halfway Houses Use for Reentry Programming?
ReturnPath halfway house curriculum: 16-week reentry with workbook accountability, rolling enrollment, and facilitator guides for transitional housing.
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Drug Legalization Series Part 23: What Failure Looks Like If We Don't Change: Projecting the Status Quo Forward
Part 23 models drug overdose death projections under today's laws, showing what failure may look like if we keep the status quo.
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What Substance Abuse Curriculum Works for IOP and Sober Living?
IOP substance abuse curriculum for peer support and sober living — ReturnPath 16-week program with daily workbook practice between flexible group sessions.
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How Do I Quit Using Drugs Without Treatment?
How to quit drugs without treatment — when you lack access, are not ready for formal care, or fear the consequences. Steps from lived experience.
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Drug Legalization Series Part 22: Public Buy-In Is Built, Not Waited For: How Public Opinion Actually Shifts on Uncomfortable Drug Policy
How leaders build public support for drug policy that feels uncomfortable first — and why public perception shapes what lawmakers pass and fund.
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Drug Legalization Series Part 21: Drug Legalization Is Bipartisan: Political Reality, Not Political Fantasy
Part 21 explains why bipartisan drug policy reform is viable now and why regulated legalization is a public health and safety upgrade, not ideology.
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.