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There comes a point where you get tired of playing along with polite fictions. Everyone in policy circles talks about homelessness, mental health collapse, substance use, austerity, fragmented care, but very few will say the part that actually matters. The part that explains why nothing changes, no matter how many reviews, strategies, or bold visions […]

In my upcoming book “A Philosophical Critique of Co-Existing Mental Health and Substance Use Challenges Pain Comes First, Drugs Come Later“, I explore the idea of temporal confusion — what happens when distress, trauma, or survival reorder our sense of time itself. I wanted to give you an insight into what I mean. Darren had […]

The Ecology of Reintegration: Beyond Housing, Toward Coherence We often talk about “recovery” or “rehabilitation” as if people are machines that can be repaired. But reintegration after homelessness isn’t mechanical, it’s ecological. It happens across layers of human experience — safety, health, belonging, agency, and meaning — all of which grow or wither depending on […]