Grasshopper Program
  • Disclaimer
  • Begin here
  • Quickstart
    • Executive Summary
  • Terminology
  • 🌱Background
    • What is Grasshopper?
    • Using technology
    • Grasshopper Research
    • Diagnosing addiction
      • Professional diagnosis
      • Self-diagnosis
      • The complexity of people
  • 🌄Grasshopper Philosophy
    • Our philosophy
    • An Integrated View
      • Science
        • Psychology
        • Psychiatry
        • Neurology
        • Health
        • Exercise & nutrition
        • Meditation
      • Social
        • Personal
        • Professional
        • Cultural
        • Socioeconomic
      • Spiritual
        • A larger meaning
        • Love
        • Creativity
        • The "God" question
    • Two Problems
      • The Life Problem
      • The Medical Problem
    • Five Principles
      • Education
      • Faith and motivation
      • Lifestyle and mindset betterment
    • Four Goals
      • Faith
      • Well-being
      • Self-discovery
      • Belonging
    • Misconceptions
      • "Addiction is one size"
      • "Addiction is weakness"
      • "Addiction is forever"
      • "Addiction is just physical"
    • The time is now
    • A note on co-occurring disorders
  • 📚Grasshopper Methodology
    • Our methodology
    • Educational Strategy
      • Learning
      • Feeling
      • Taking Action
      • Grasshopper Course
    • Meetings
      • Guided Meetings
      • Open Meetings
      • Traditional meetings
    • Roles
      • Grasshopper Coaches
      • Mentors
      • Grasshoppers
    • Grasshopper Technology
      • Platform & app
    • Working Materials
      • For Coaches
        • Training materials
        • Guided Meeting materials
        • Community moderation
        • Artificial intelligence
        • Private community
      • For Mentors
        • Open Meeting materials
        • Food for Grasshoppers
        • Private community
  • 📎Supplemental
    • Substance addiction
      • Alcohol
      • Drugs
      • "Party" drugs
      • Cannabis
      • Tobacco and nicotine
      • Prescription medication
      • Food
    • Behavior addiction
      • Sex
      • Pornography
      • Gambling
      • Co-dependence
      • Abnormal eating
      • Internet & social media
      • Videogames
      • Love
      • Work
      • Money
      • Self-harm
    • Current treatment
      • Therapy
      • In-patient rehab
      • Out-patient rehab
      • Halfway & sober homes
      • Anonymous (AA, NA, GA...)
      • SMART Recovery
      • Other programs
      • Alternative therapy
      • Faith-based
      • Medication
      • Psychedelic
    • For families and friends
  • 🫂Grasshopper Recovery
    • Our organization
    • Our name
    • Our supporters
    • Our hypotheses
    • Licensing
    • A letter from the founder
  • 📜Publications
    • In progress...
  • 📃Legal
  • Privacy Policy
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Executive Summary

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Grasshopper is a 21st-century addiction treatment program, building upwards through knowledge integration.

It modernizes peer-support programs, backing them with upgraded education and new technology; replacing and supplementing traditional treatment options for a better recovery.

The information and tools created by Grasshopper Recovery are available and open for use, sharing, and non-commercial purposes by all individuals and non-profit organizations.


At Grasshopper Recovery, we view it as a significant failure that the addiction treatment community has not added technology into the recovery process.

To bridge this gap and advance addiction treatment into the 21st century, we are building technology that support individuals' futures with improved and streamlined learning, all driven by data and AI.


Grasshopper is grounded in Grasshopper Philosophy: our way of thinking about addiction, its treatment, and life.

It consists of four main components:


Grasshopper Methodology is a living and evolving working method to implement Grasshopper Philosophy. It is supported by scientific rationale, processes, and data.

It consists of seven components:


Grasshopper Recovery is an organization driven by scientific and human principles. This means we operate to solve hypotheses that can bring us closer to the truth.

"Grasshopper was born from the desire to create a better addiction recovery program, but instead of reinventing the wheel, rather building upon what already exists."

To bring the world of addiction treatment up to date, we're building Grasshopper Research. This effort is committed to achieving the most comprehensive understanding of addiction ever witnessed.

Grasshopper Research applies scientific principles in partnership with individuals, companies, and organizations across different disciplines that can contribute to addiction recovery, ranging from neurology to spirituality.

"": This forms the foundation of our philosophy, as it considers addiction across all operational levels through the perspectives of all relevant domains (science, social, and spiritual).

"": This is where we differentiate the distinct yet closely interconnected issues that form addiction itself ("Life" and "Medical").

"": The principles that outline how we apply the philosophy on a daily basis to achieve recovery.

"": The goals that get us to our achievement: recovery from addiction.

: The actual teachings of our methodological implementation.

: Our way to teach individuals: Learning, Feeling, and Taking Action.

: A network of peer-support meetings where people can learn and discuss addiction, recovery, and life.

: A way to structure our participant community, with Coaches, Mentors, and individuals.

: Our education platform and recovery app, as well as the infrastructure for data and AI.

: The tools and content we offer to our Coaches and Mentors.

: The scientific arm of the program that delves into using evidence, fact, and truth.

An Integrated View
Two Problems
Five Principles
Four Goals
Grasshopper Philosophy
Educational Strategy
Meetings
Roles
Grasshopper Technology
Working Materials
Grasshopper Research
The high-level structure of the Grasshopper program.
Grasshoper Philosophy and its components.
Grasshoper Methodology and its components.