Start Measuring Something

David Whitesock
1 min readDec 11, 2023

One of the many elephants in the addiction treatment and recovery support room is a lack of credibility.

For way too long, too many bad actors and poor practices have built a negative stereotype around addiction treatment.

The tide is slowing changing.

The credibility issue could change faster but many clinical leaders in the field are overly cautious about implementing data practices that haven’t been tested or researched.

If regular businesses operated this way, there’d be no business innovation and…

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David Whitesock

Social entrepreneur turning data into intelligence for behavioral health and recovery support orgs. Commonly Well CEO. Architect of the Recovery Capital Index.