In 1998, I had the privilege of co-leading the Behavioral Health Recovery Management Project—an effort funded by the State of Illinois to: 1) evaluate the current state of addiction treatment, and 2) offer recommendations for elevating the quality of such treatment.
Recovery Management
Recovery Monographs
Does recovery, as a claimed new organizing paradigm within the addictions field, constitute a positive and fundamental shift in the resolution of alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems in the U.S., or is it an ephemeral flavor of the month that simply puts a new rhetorical face on unchanged service philosophies and practices It has the potential to be either.
In 2001, more than 100 representatives of newly rising recovery advocacy organizations participated in a recovery summit in St. Paul, Minnesota to lay the foundation for a national recovery advocacy movement.