Recovery Support

The ongoing process through which individuals achieve improved health, wellness, and quality of life while striving for abstinence or reduced substance use.

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The Importance of Nutrition for Recovery from Addiction

Scientific article

8 September 2017

How important is nutrition for recovery from Substance Use Disorders (SUDs)? According to new research published in the academic journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence the answer is: very. The paper, which looked at the relationship between...

Decisions in Recovery: Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder

Book

5 December 2016

This handbook provides guidance on using the web-based, multimedia tool 'Decisions in Recovery: Medications for Opioid Addiction'. This handbook and the web-based tool offer information about medication-assisted treatment. Both resources...

Life in Recovery from Addiction in Canada

Book

20 June 2017

The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) has recently teamed up with the National Recovery Advisory Committee to produce the first Canadian survey of people in recovery from drug addiction and/or alcoholism. The findings...

Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix Row 4: The Talking Route to Recovery

Book

3 May 2017

The Talking Route to Recovery Time to consolidate the lessons of last five instalments of the online course on alcohol treatment research. Every treatment involves direct or indirect human interaction, but this row is about therapies in...

Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: Managing the Talking Route to Recovery

Book

22 March 2017

Fortnightly instalment of online course on alcohol treatment research starts with a study which concluded that “leaders have a cascading impact on their staff in ways other than through mandate”. Findings that post-training ‘coaching’ is...

Podcast: Do Tobacco Cessation Interventions Provided during Substance Abuse Treatment or Recovery Help Tobacco Users to Quit?

News

Smoking rates in people with alcohol and other drug dependencies are two to four times those of the general population. Concurrent treatment of tobacco dependence has been limited due to concern that these interventions are not successful...

Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: The Talker in the Talking Route to Recovery

Book

8 March 2017

In psychosocial therapies, the enactment of the client-worker relationship is the treatment. Structured around Carl Rogers’ classic formulation of the “necessary and sufficient conditions” for therapeutic progress, the cell in the Alcohol...

Whole Family Recovery

Book

1 October 2013

This document provides an overview of themes that emerged from the Adfam’s Whole Family Recovery and Alcohol Focus Groups and interviews. This research was conducted to scope the impacts of the recovery of someone with an alcohol problem on...