December 29, 2024
Dear Hossein,
Thank you for your latest letter and your best wishes for the coming year. I do have high hopes for our forthcoming collaborations.
My deepest congratulations to you on celebrating your 27th year of recovery and for all the contributions to others that have flowed from that redemption. It is important that all members of Congress 60 know the history behind the treatment that has blessed their lives and the sacrifices of those who came before them. That history deserves to be the foundation of Congress 60 for eras to come.
I look forward to the video of the Congress 60 Mini Symphony Orchestra performances led by Amin. Music—both performing it and experiencing it—are underutilized sources of recovery support. It is wonderful to see such voids filled by these new initiatives of Congress 60. We can take what we learn from such ventures and share it with the world—a process of seed planting that will bear much fruit around the globe in the years to come.
I look forward to the forthcoming update on Congress 60’s research activities. We have had many exchanges with Ehsan who is communicating with those in Congress 60 overseeing the collection of statistics. We are quite pleased with the wonderful cooperation we are receiving in our requests for information.
I think I mentioned earlier that I was doing an extensive literature review on the problem of retention within medication-assisted treatment of opioid addiction. That project is continuing and I am nearly done with a first draft of what will either be a series of papers or a long monograph with recommendations about how rates of retention can be elevated. Most such programs have participant retention rates far lower than those achieved in Congress 60. I will share the summary of this work with you when it is completed. I think this work will set the stage for the publication of the research we are currently conducting.
This past week, I reviewed the updated profile of Congress 60 I have written related to that study and wanted to follow-up with you with a question: could you describe how new branches of Congress 60 come to be formed and how you assure consistent application of Congress 60 philosophy and methods of treatment within these new branches of Congress 60 and how the new branches are governed? I would like to include that description given the growth of Congress 60 branches over the past decades.
My best wishes to all on the celebration of Congress 60 companions.
Friends and Brothers Forever,
Bill