Hi, I’m Alexandre. I’m an addiction recovery scientist. I’m not in recovery.
Seeking to do science on recovery, rather than addiction, has been a liability with the National Institute of Health (NIH), American scientists’ primary source of research funding. Not being in recovery has cost me points in many sectors of the recovery community.
Most often, I feel professionally ignored at best, by colleagues who do so-called ‘real’ research – on treatment, medication or vaccine development, or (the pinnacle of research stardom), the brain …
Yet, I can’t seem to want to do anything else. I am hooked on trying to build a science of recovery. Why am I doing this?
