Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement

Eric Garland's MORE program stands out in addiction treatment by targeting not just cravings but the loss of ordinary joy that drives relapse — restoring the ability to savor everyday life alongside managing opioid use and chronic pain. The integration of mindfulness, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and positive psychology is genuinely novel, and the book backs it with biobehavioral research rather than anecdote. Clinicians will find session-by-session scripts and reproducible handouts ready to use in individual or group settings. The honest caveat is that this is written squarely for therapists and counselors, not for people in recovery reading on their own, and the secular clinical framework has no faith dimension. Within its intended professional audience, it fills a real gap with solid evidence behind it.