you know, you've hit on something that i have observed over the last 13 years that i've been at samhsa and, and that is that just when you get comfortable using one terminology, along comes someone else and then they find, particularly not only in the substance use disorder field, but also in the mental illness field. right, john, i mean it's, it's just you know as difficult as we find the, the subject matter in, in the substance use disorder field, you know the mental illness side also presents with, i think, some similar circumstances. for sure. when you think about other disorders, for example, the thought, the one, the disorder comes to mind quickly when, as a first cousin of substance abuse disorder are eating disorders. now when you talk about eating disorders, we always, invariably, people use the term inside, outside of the field, they refer to it as an eating disorder, not as food abuse or, and don't refer to them as food abusers. and that has grown up just in, in a very consistent fashion. it's always been eating disorders, as far as i can remember it, it's never been anythin

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the training that was developed by faces and voices of recovery in conjunction with funding from samhsa. people in the recovery community have been looking for a long time for language that they can use to really describe what it is that they've been through and what it is that they're trying to advocate for. so faces and voices of recovery has used the training as an opportunity create a video, a dvd, that can be you know sent around the country, can be put on the internet, can really be used in trainings and in workshops around the country so that more people have the terminology that's necessary to communicate our, our message to the broadest possible audience. there are three major sections of the dvd. the first is a 90- minute training video which takes you through faces and voices of recovery's media and message training, the actual core training itself. the second part of the dvd is a section called, "keys to successful interviews". that section really is helpful for people who are going to be going into an interview situation and they need to brush up on some basic skills. and t

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