Recovery is a process that often takes significant time and effort to achieve and maintain. Here you will find a selection of resources and pieces of research relating to the topic of recovery support. You can also join the ISSUP recovery practice and the ISSUP recovery research networks to engage in further discussion relating to recovery support.

1) Recovery month takes place in September each year. To celebrate the campaign, ISSUP South Africa hosted a webinar exploring the different pathways to recovery. You can access a recording of the webinar here. 

2) This guide, developed by SAMHSA...

Background

The necessity of a gendered understanding of recovery is becoming increasingly evident. There have been reports of gender disparities in the character and amount of substance use, the paths to and through substance use disorder, and the acquisition and maintenance of recovery capital. There is virtually little study on the elements that influence recovery capital growth by gender.

Methods

The current study examines certain categories of the Strengths and Barriers Recovery Scale (SABRS) that best predict recovery capital growth among people in recovery from drug addiction using...

"Addiction recovery is a complex, dynamic and non-linear process of change on multiple life domains, and in substance use patterns in particular."

In this special issue of Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, researchers from around the world explore the range of mediators and mechanisms that play a role in an individuals recovery trajectory.

Articles

• Are members of mutual aid groups better equipped for addiction recovery? European cross-sectional study into recovery capital, social networks, and commitment to sobriety
• Chasing a pot of gold: an analysis of emerging recovery-oriented...

The Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) movement created the term "in recovery" to express the continuing requirement for vigilance in order to sustain sobriety (which includes abstinence from alcohol intake) and avoid a return to dangerous drinking. This term, or identity, may be adopted by someone who considers themselves to be in recovery for the rest of their lives. Recovery is considered to entail gains in health and wellbeing, and has been described as a social process in which individuals learn to absorb new norms and values as part of a recovery-oriented identity, but it is not specifically...