Major Brock
Founder · Investor · Person in Recovery
My work is rooted in lived experience. I care about the people, the systems, and the gaps that make recovery harder than it should be, and I’ve spent my life trying to build something better.
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Portfolio Companies
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Academic Partnerships
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Operating Platforms
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Mission
After navigating my own path through addiction and recovery, I’ve learned how much difference the right support can make. That experience shapes everything I do. Brock Recovery Group is the vehicle. A way to turn what I’ve lived into better outcomes, more access, and a more honest recovery ecosystem.
What I Do
Four Pillars. One Mission.
This is how I work, and why. I’m here to build, invest, bridge, and give in ways that make recovery more accessible, more effective, and more human.
🏗 Build
I develop recovery housing, treatment-aligned real estate, and operational platforms. The physical environment of recovery is as important as the clinical one.
📈 Invest
I back early- to growth-stage companies in prevention, treatment, and behavioral health innovation, where the gaps are largest and the leverage is highest.
🔗 Bridge
I connect academic research, clinical providers, and real-world implementation. The silo between evidence and practice is one of the system's most costly failures.
🤝 Give
I fund access, peer programs, and early-stage nonprofits that capital markets won't touch yet. Recovery has to be available to everyone, not just those who can afford it.
Platform
Brock Recovery Group: Turning Personal Recovery into Institutional Impact
BRG was founded by the Brock family on a simple belief: recovery is real, recovery is possible, and recovery should be built into the fabric of our institutions. This is not a branding exercise. It is a family commitment — shaped by lived experience and driven by a shared sense of responsibility.
BRG operates through two complementary arms. The Brock Recovery Foundation advances research, education, and access to care through philanthropy. Brock Recovery Ventures invests in and builds mission-aligned businesses across healthcare, recovery services, and real estate. Together, they create an ecosystem where research, treatment, and innovation are connected rather than fragmented.
Key Initiatives
Ecosystem Partners & Ventures
Credibility in this space is earned through relationships and results. The following collaborations and portfolio companies reflect a commitment to rigorous, scalable, and human-centered approaches to recovery.
Vanderbilt-Brock Institute for Addiction
Partnering with world-class academic medicine to ensure that research insights translate into real-world recovery systems and policy.
Brock Centre for Addiction Research & Treatment
Established in partnership with the University of East London, the Brock Centre brings a global lens to addiction science and behavioral health innovation, connecting international research with real-world recovery systems.
Caron Treatment Centers
A working relationship with one of the nation's most respected treatment organizations, bridging clinical excellence with operational strategy.
Portfolio
Venture Investments
Each portfolio company addresses a distinct gap in the behavioral health and recovery landscape, from precision medicine to care transitions. These are not bets on a trend. They are investments in a more coherent system.
Baseline Therapeutics
A clinical-stage biotech developing GLP-1 receptor agonists for alcohol and substance use disorders. Their lead asset, BT-001, enters Phase 3 trials for alcohol use disorder in 2026, with stimulant and opioid indications to follow. Addressing a space where 41 million Americans remain untreated.
Goldfinch Health
Tackling opioid addiction at its most common entry point: surgery. Goldfinch's nurse-led navigation platform reduces unnecessary opioid prescriptions and supports safer post-surgical recovery. Their Billion Pill Pledge initiative aims to remove 1 billion unused opioid pills from circulation nationwide.
Outro Health
Focused on one of the most overlooked problems in psychiatric care: safely stopping antidepressants. Outro uses neurobiology-based hyperbolic tapering protocols, developed by world-leading experts, to help patients discontinue medication safely and successfully.
Thrive Genetics
A genomic and behavioral risk assessment platform that helps clinicians identify addiction risk before it develops and personalize treatment for those already in care. Built on over two decades of NIH-funded research, Thrive CARES combines genetic markers with behavioral and environmental data to create individualized risk profiles.
Infrastructure
Recovery Housing as a Strategic Asset
Real estate is one of the most overlooked components of the recovery ecosystem. Treatment does not exist in isolation. It requires physical environments that support stability, accountability, and long-term outcomes.
BRG develops and operates properties designed specifically for recovery housing, wellness services, and treatment-adjacent care. These environments act as the foundation for sustainable recovery, while also creating scalable and investable infrastructure within the behavioral health space.
This is the missing middle layer: purpose-built environments that bridge the clinical and the communal, and generate durable returns for aligned capital.
Why Infrastructure Matters
Stable housing reduces relapse rates and improves clinical outcomes
Purpose-built environments are scarce — demand outpaces supply
Real estate creates investable, tangible assets within behavioral health
Physical environments signal accountability and community integration
Philanthropy & Nonprofit
Giving Back Is Part of the Blueprint
The Brock Recovery Foundation
The people who need recovery most are often the ones the system reaches last. I try to change that directly.
My nonprofit work focuses on four areas: reducing financial barriers to treatment, and funding early-stage organizations that the traditional capital markets won't touch yet.
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Early-Stage Orgs
Backing nonprofit innovators before they're fundable by traditional philanthropy
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Research Funding
Supporting addiction research that would otherwise go unfunded, accelerating the science that treatment depends on.
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Academic Partnerships
Partnering with leading academic institutions to ensure research reaches the people and systems that need it most.
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Access
Funding treatment access for individuals who fall through the cracks of insurance and public systems
Why I Give
Recovery gave me my life back. Philanthropy is how I try to give that back to someone else.
BRF Initiatives & Support
The Brock Recovery Foundation directs philanthropic capital toward the organizations and efforts that move the field forward. Current and past support includes:
- Founding support for the Vanderbilt-Brock Institute for Addiction
- Partnership with Caron Treatment Centers, one of the nation's most respected treatment organizations
- Collaboration with the Brock Centre for Addiction Research & Treatment at the University of East London
- Scholarship funding for individuals seeking treatment who lack financial access
- Bridging academic research with real-world clinical implementation
- Created the Brock Family Student Success and Wellbeing Fund at the Darla Moore School of Business
Personal Story
My Path Into This Work Is Personal
There was a moment in my recovery when it became impossible to ignore how many people were still being left behind — not because they didn’t want help, but because the system around them was broken, fragmented, and hard to enter at the exact moment they needed it most.
That realization changed everything for me. Recovery was no longer just about getting well myself; it became about understanding why so many people fall through the cracks, and what it would take to build something better.
I didn’t just recover from addiction — I came back determined to help fix the system that failed so many people before me.
Perspective
What I Believe About Fixing a Broken System
These are not conclusions — they are working beliefs, shaped by lived experience, partnerships with researchers and clinicians, and years of operating inside a system that is both broken and full of potential. Smarter people than me are working on these problems. This is simply how I see them.
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Recovery Is Not One-Size-Fits-All
Biology, behavior, environment, and lived experience all interact. Standardized protocols routinely fail the people they're meant to serve.
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The System Is Fragmented by Design
Fragmentation between research, clinical care, and community support isn't accidental. It's the product of misaligned incentives, siloed funding, and a system designed around acute intervention rather than long-term outcomes.
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Prevention Is Chronically Underfunded
Reimbursement structures, insurance models, and public funding all reward treatment over prevention. Until the incentives change, the money won't.
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Lived Experience Must Inform Design
People who have navigated addiction and recovery carry irreplaceable knowledge. Systems built without them are structurally incomplete.
Writing
Insights & Perspectives
These are pieces I've written from inside the work — not as an authority on addiction, but as someone who has lived it, built around it, and invested in it. I share them in case they're useful to others thinking about the same problems.
The Silo Problem in Addiction Research
Why we know so much and yet help so few — examining why academic research and clinical practice operate in parallel universes, and the structural reforms that could finally close the gap.
What Recovery Operators Get Wrong About Science
Why the system hasn't kept pace with what we know — examining the gap between addiction science and how treatment is actually delivered.
The Integration Opportunity in Addiction Treatment
Why the next breakthrough is not new science, but better connection — examining how alignment across research, treatment, and innovation can drive the next phase of progress.
Long-Form Writing
Research & Opinion
The pieces below are longer-form opinion and research papers — the kind of writing that doesn't fit in a post. They're hosted externally and linked here. If something resonates, share it.
- The Silo Problem in Addiction Research — Why we know so much and yet help so few — examining why academic research and clinical practice operate in parallel universes, and the structural reforms that could finally close the gap.
- What Recovery Operators Get Wrong About Science — Why the system hasn't kept pace with what we know — examining the gap between addiction science and how treatment is actually delivered.
- The Integration Opportunity in Addiction Treatment — Why the next breakthrough is not new science, but better connection — examining how alignment across research, treatment, and innovation can drive the next phase of progress.
Why It All Matters
Recovery Doesn't Just Happen. It Gets Built.
Everything I build, invest in, and give to is rooted in one belief: that recovery isn't a destination. It's a foundation for a career, a family, and a full life.
If my story, my work, or my platform can make one person believe that, then the mission is working. That's what gets me up every day.
If You're Still in It
The system is harder to navigate than it should be. That's not a reflection of your effort — it's a structural failure. People are working to change it, and you deserve better than what currently exists.
If You Work in This Space
You already know where the gaps are. I'm interested in the people who are trying to close them — not just describe them. If that's you, I'd like to connect.
If You Allocate Capital
The behavioral health space is underfunded in the places that matter most. If you're looking for where aligned capital can have real impact, I'm happy to share what I've learned.
How I Can Be Useful
The Future of Addiction Recovery · Scalable Recovery Infrastructure · Lived Experience as System Intelligence · Investing in Behavioral Health · Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership in Recovery
Collaboration
Open to partnerships with treatment operators, academic institutions, impact investors, and policy organizations aligned with systems-level change.
Media & Press
Available for interviews, editorial contributions, and expert commentary on behavioral health, recovery infrastructure, and healthcare innovation.
Let's Connect
Whether you're building in the recovery space, allocating capital toward behavioral health, or seeking a voice for your platform — I'd like to hear from you.
Email: majorbrock@brockrecoverygroup.com