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Recovery Support
The ongoing process through which individuals achieve improved health, wellness, and quality of life while striving for abstinence or reduced substance use.
Sex and Gender Effects in Recovery From Alcohol Use Disorder
The current article provides a summary of biopsychosocial gender differences in alcohol use disorder (AUD), then reviews existing literature on gender differences in treatment access, retention, outcomes, and longer-term recovery. Among...
Managing the Talking Route to Recovery. Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix Cell C4
MANAGING THE TALKING ROUTE TO RECOVERY
Key studies on managing and supervising psychosocial treatments for problem drinking. Starts with an essay from two leading researchers into these treatments, “bravely questioning what it’s all been...
The Talking Route to Recovery. Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix Cell A4
Every treatment involves human interaction, but this cell is about therapies in which interaction is the intended active ingredient – ‘psychosocial’ therapies, the mainstay of alcohol dependence treatment...
Webinar | Psychological Capital: Substance Use Disorder and Recovery process
On October 2nd 2020, ISSUP Pakistan presented a Webinar on the topic of Psychological Capital.
Telehealth Learning Series for SUD Treatment and Recovery Support Providers
The Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) Network, the Center for Excellence on Protected Health Information (CoE-PHI), the National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers, and the Center for the Application of Substance Abuse...
WEBINAR | Relapse Prevention: A Step Towards Sustained Recovery
On September 1st 2020, ISSUP India presented a Webinar on 'Relapse Prevention: A Step Towards Sustained Recovery'.
Plenary 3: A Focus on Treatment and Recovery
The Third Plenary Session of the 'Drug Demand Reduction in Africa: Prevention, Treatment and Epidemiology' Virtual Conference from 16th September to 10th November 2020.
PRESS RELEASE PROPER ALCOHOL MANAGEMENT IS NECESSARY FOR SPEEDY RECOVERY FROM CORONA VIRUS-19
UGANDA ALCOHOL POLICY ALLIANCE . (UAPA)
Office of the Chairperson, +256 772 481 003
Date: 5th August 20202
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Measuring Capital in Active Addiction and Recovery: The Development of the Strengths and Barriers Recovery Scale (SABRS)
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Background
The international Life In Recovery (LiR) surveys have provided an important message to the public and policy makers about the reality of change from addiction to recovery, consistently demonstrating both that there are...
UNODC Webinar: Drug Treatment, Care & Recovery for People, Families & Communities in the COVID-19 Crisis in Southeast Asia
UNODC Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Section (PTRS), in collaboration with the WHO, International Experts from Australia and Italy, the Colombo Plan, UNODC Regional Office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific (ROSEAP) and field...
Using Data to Communicate the Effectiveness of Recovery Supports
Speakers discuss how to use available research and your own program data to communicate the effectiveness of recovery supports.
The Free Peer Recovery Support Webinar Series Starts on Friday, March 27
Peer recovery support services are increasingly becoming an important part of the behavioral healthcare workforce. They not only help people with behavioral health conditions connect to, engage in, and be active participants in treatment...
Trajectories of psychological distress during recovery from polysubstance use disorder
Abstract
Introduction: Polysubstance use is a prevalent substance use pattern with adverse effects on psychological distress and diminished treatment outcomes. Although polysubstance use often dominates clinical practice, the trajectories...
The Eighth Recovery Get-Together at Ahsania Mission Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Center
Ahsania Mission Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Center, Gazipur, Bangladesh organized the 8th Recovery Get-Together on 28 February 2020 at its premises, to celebrate the healthy drug-free lives of 170 recovered Substance Use Disorder...
Predictors of Early Recovery after Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorders in Uganda
Data on treatment for AUD (Alcohol Use Disorders) in developing countries are scarce. This study explores aspects of early recovery and correlates of alcohol use after residential AUD treatment in Uganda. 78 respondents were followed up...
Should Addiction Counselors Disclose They Are in Recovery?
Addiction therapy is often a personal and complex thing, which relies on interaction, bonding, and communication between counselors and their patients. This often happens because many of the people choosing to become addiction counselors...
Should Addiction Counselors Disclose Their Recovery?
More often than not, the answer is: no.
- “I’m in recovery too…so you can trust the suggestions I give you.”
- “I’ve been there, done that, so I ‘get’ where you are coming from.”
- “When I was in early recovery I wouldn’t trust normal people...
Rights, Respect and Recovery: Action Plan
In 2018, the Scottish Government released the Rights, Respect and Recovery: Scotland's Alcohol and Drug Treatment Strategy.
Scotland's first drugs strategy for a decade focuses on treating the issue as a public health concern rather than a...