Eight Years Later: What Residential Treatment Left Behind for Gamblers in Recovery An eight-year follow-up of 36 former residential clients treated for co-occurring gambling and substance use disorders found durable gains — less craving, higher life satisfaction, employment up from 25% to 66.7% — even though 61% gambled at some point after discharge. Source Mechanisms and durability of residential treatment for co-occurring gambling and substance use disorders: a mixed-methods eight-year follow-up study — Frontiers in Psychiatry (2026), via PubMed — Im, Silver, Donovan, Wong, Le, Goel, Tunikipati, Ruderman and Fong

Repairing the Damage: Dean McDermott on Three Years Sober and the Father His Kids Deserve Speaking to PEOPLE at Cure Addiction Now's fundraising evening on November 9, Dean McDermott said he has been sober three years and four months and is repairing his relationships with his six children, crediting recovery and the 12-step program. Source Dean McDermott Says He’s ‘Repairing the Damage’ with His Kids amid Sobriety Journey: ‘Still a Lot of Work to Do’ (Exclusive) — PEOPLE, November 2026, reporting from Cure Addiction Now’s 3rd Annual Fundraising Evening, November 9, 2026

Corner Pieces First: The App That Helped Unemployed People Find Work and Lifted Their Mood In a Northwestern-led six-week trial of 126 unemployed adults with depressive symptoms, the DRIVEN app — mental health exercises plus job coaching — saw 68.3% find work versus 50.8% with standard advice, with greater mood improvement. Source Mental health app may help unemployed people find jobs, six-week trial suggests — Phys.org, November 10, 2026, reporting Northwestern University / Journal of Medical Internet Research

Dave Campisano, founder of 22Mohawks, explains how shared challenge builds belonging — and why belonging saves veterans’ lives. A Veterans Day conversation on the jump, the research, and becoming someone it is safe to be vulnerable with.

Betrayed, Not Just Battle-Worn: The Moral Wound Behind Veterans' Drinking A national study of 1,321 combat veterans finds perceived betrayal — moral injury — was the strongest predictor of past-year alcohol use disorder, ahead of depression and PTSD symptom measures. Source Veterans Driven Toward Alcohol Abuse by Betrayal, Not Just Combat: New National Trauma Research — Military.com, November 11, 2026, reporting Psychological Medicine / VA National Center for PTSD