The ongoing process through which individuals achieve improved health, wellness, and quality of life while striving for abstinence or reduced substance use.
Recovery Support
Stigmatizing imagery for substance use disorders: a qualitative exploration
This study used qualitative methods to identify stigmatizing and non-stigmatizing imagery for SUD and explore the reactions of people with lived experience with SUD to SUD-related imagery. We conducted focus groups and brief semi-structured qualitative interviews with 14 individuals in recovery from a range of SUD.
5th Annual NIH HEAL Initiative Scientific Meeting
Wednesday, February 7, 2024 to Thursday, February 8, 2024
Hybrid - Virtual and Bethesda, Maryland
The Importance of Professionals and Community Members as Recovery Allies
The session will begin with a presentation on the recovery ecosystem and recovery capital and will then identify real world examples of ways allies in communities have supported recovery by changing the community environment and creating opportunities to boost recovery capital.
Clinical Interventions for Harm Reduction Patients
The addiction profession has made incredible progress in adopting harm reduction strategies as clinical intervention tools for persons with substance use disorders. In this presentation, participants will review which clinical interventions most effective for people who express they do not want or do not need counseling.
European Drugs Winter School (EDWS) 2024
EMCDDA's two week online Winter School (26th of February to 08th March 2024) prepares professionals and students to meet the complex policy challenges that face Europe and the World in the field of drugs. Teaching staff include scientific experts from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), researchers, practitioners and policymakers.
Apply to become an ITTC Member
The International Technology Transfer Center (ITTC) is accepting applications for new members! ITTC is a global network dedicated to advancing technology and innovation. Through culturally and linguistically appropriate, cutting-edge...
Use of Forensic Peer Recovery Specialists to Improve Outcomes
Join ICUDDR for their upcoming Webinar on Use of Forensic Peer Recovery Specialists to Improve Outcomes.
Science of Self-Care: How It Helps and Why It Matters
ISSUP presents its webinar on the science behind self-care. This webinar discusses the science of self-care, why it important, and how it works physiologically and neurologically.
Science of Self-Care: How It Helps and Why It Matters
ISSUP cordially invites you to an upcoming webinar on December 14th, 2023 on the science behind self-care.
A UK national study of prevalence and correlates of adopting or not adopting a recovery identity among individuals who have overcome a drug or alcohol problem
Background: In the last 20 years, the term "recovery" has become crucial in dealing with addiction. However, different groups, such as researchers, clinicians, policymakers, and people with lived experience of alcohol or drug (AOD) problems...