Creator & Educator
Teaches people how to identify addictive thinking, rationalization, assumptions, consequences, and the next honest action.
FOUNDER · CEO · RECOVERY SPEAKER · LIVED-EXPERIENCE RECOVERY EDUCATOR
Stanley R. Leszewski
Founder & CEO · American Substance Abuse Foundation LLCRecovery Speaker & Lived-Experience Recovery Educator
Stanley R. Leszewski built American Substance Abuse Foundation LLC around a simple principle: recovery becomes stronger when a person can slow down the thinking, tell the truth about what is happening, identify the real problem, and apply a real solution before destructive thinking becomes behavior.
WHY ASAF EXISTS
Recovery has to work in real life.
Stanley’s recovery philosophy grew from years of firsthand experience with addiction, treatment systems, 12-Step communities, relapse prevention, rebuilding daily life, and helping other people understand the thinking that keeps addiction alive.
That experience became Recovery Logic: a practical framework that looks at the full chain from situation or trigger, to thought, feeling, justification, decision, behavior, consequence, honest alternative, and immediate recovery action.
His approach supports abstinence as a stabilizing foundation while recognizing that recovery is not one-size-fits-all. ASAF education can include secular recovery, 12-Step-informed learning, faith-oriented recovery, and blended approaches without forcing one pathway on every person.
Recovery Speaker
Provides direct, interactive lived-experience education for recovery facilities, schools, workplaces, community groups, courts, reentry audiences, and recovery organizations.
Host
Uses recovery stories and unscripted conversation to give people a message of hope, accountability, and practical recovery action.
Founder & Product Lead
Developed ASAF Recovery Education AI as a non-clinical educational and self-reflection application centered on Recovery Logic, journaling, worksheets, and practical decision-making.
THE PHILOSOPHY
Stop lying to yourself. See the problem. Apply the solution.
ASAF’s message is firm without humiliation. Feelings matter, but feelings are not always facts. A justification is not a solution. The goal is to become teachable enough to see what is actually happening, recognize what is within your control, and take the next recovery action before the problem gets bigger.
Service boundary.
ASAF LLC services described on this website are grassroots, non-clinical lived-experience recovery education, speaking, educational facilitation, public information, and self-reflection resources. Stanley R. Leszewski and ASAF do not present these services as medical care, psychotherapy, diagnosis, detoxification, clinical counseling, treatment planning, case management, or licensed substance-use treatment.