The Addiction Recovery Channel

04/25/2026

1 in 8 American adults meets the criteria for alcohol use disorder.

That's your neighbor. Your coworker. Your sibling. Maybe you.

And yet, fewer than 1 in 10 people who need treatment for alcohol use disorder receive it.

The gap isn't about access alone. It's about shame.

When we make it safer to talk about alcohol honestly, more people get the help they need. That's what Alcohol Awareness Month is really about.

💚 Share this if you believe people deserve support, not stigma.

04/24/2026

❤️Got a minute? Here's my story... Ed Baker, Host, Addiction Recovery Channel❤️

Listen to Present Time - Ed Baker: One Person's Journey Through Severe Addiction to Lasting Health by 99.3FM WBTV-LP Burlington

04/12/2026

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♥️I've known and admired Daniel Franklin for over ten years. As the Education Specialist at Burlington Laboratories I was tasked with educating our personnel and the general public on stigma, people who use drugs, their various treatments and paths of recovery.
It was here Daniel and I both began to focus upon stigma and its relationship to mortality; the ways stigma incessantly fuels punitive thinking and feeling toward those most in need of compassion and empathy, causing disconnection and death.
Daniel and I, along with our very many partners in Vermont, have not relented in our mission: to respond with love to our neighbors at-risk for accidental drug overdose death and the myriad of other harms associated with addiction, stigma and the War on Drugs.
It's eleven years later and relentlessness remains the only constant.
We continue to grow and mature as dedicated professionals and genuine people; we never turn our backs on those needing our support and advocacy; we speak truth to power - sometimes with great volume and sometimes in private...
And we continue to learn how to love our neighbor...
Congratulations on this latest step forward my friend...Ed

04/12/2026

🎵❤️This is my lively/lovely wife and I doing West Coast Swing in a competition at Liberty Swing Dance Championships (2005). Recovery opens the door to a happy marriage and creative and beautiful interests❤️🎵

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04/07/2026

♥️I've known and admired Daniel Franklin for over ten years. As the Education Specialist at Burlington Laboratories I was tasked with educating our personnel and the general public on stigma, people who use drugs, their various treatments and paths of recovery.
It was here Daniel and I both began to focus upon stigma and its relationship to mortality; the ways stigma incessantly fuels punitive thinking and feeling toward those most in need of compassion and empathy, causing disconnection and death.
Daniel and I, along with our very many partners in Vermont, have not relented in our mission: to respond with love to our neighbors at-risk for accidental drug overdose death and the myriad of other harms associated with addiction, stigma and the War on Drugs.
It's eleven years later and relentlessness remains the only constant.
We continue to grow and mature as dedicated professionals and genuine people; we never turn our backs on those needing our support and advocacy; we speak truth to power - sometimes with great volume and sometimes in private...
And we continue to learn how to love our neighbor...
Congratulations on this latest step forward my friend...Ed

02/15/2026

♥️Thank you Carol♥️

02/12/2026

02/11/2026

❤️Benjamin received the VAMHAR RECOVERY DAY 2026 "Jack Barry Award for Excellence in Recovery Advocacy" today!!! Benjamin is a beacon of hope, a shining North Star of example for us all. Through his rap music, writing and radio talk show he carries the golden message of possibility to people suffering from harmful drug use everywhere.
Benjamin is distinguished by his brutal honesty and his engaging transparency. You know he's for real even if you don't know him. Brilliant...Inspiring...I'm
proud to know and support him.❤️
Ed Baker

02/11/2026

♥️I just can't even begin to quantify the tremendous accomplishment enjoyed today by the Vermont Alliance for Mental Health and Addiction Recovery, the Vermont Recovery Partners and the countless others who gathered today in Montpelier and online for Recovery Day 2026. The measure of the day was the depth of real understanding and compassion for people who use drugs in harmful ways. Especially noticeable was the outright and genuine explicit recognition of the value of harm reduction in our continuum of care. Vermont has been and will continue to be a shining star of example. We stand on our accomplishments and we commit to do better.♥️
Photo with Daniel Franklin, ED,
VAMHAR

01/20/2026

♥️These are my lovely sisters, Barbara on my right and Billie on my left. I'm fortunate indeed to be their baby-brother♥️