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eNewsletter - October 2, 2007
What is Recovery?
There’s growing interest in understanding what we mean when we talk about recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. Faces & Voices’ messaging and media training has given thousands of recovery advocates a way to talk with the public and policymakers about individual and family member experiences of long-term recovery from addiction. In 2005, SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) held a Summit where a definition of recovery was developed. And in 2006, the Betty Ford Institute sponsored meetings leading to a series of articles that are in the October 2007 issue of the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, published by Elsevier Inc. The working definition article below was developed by The Betty Ford Institute Consensus Panel. Faces & Voices appreciates the opportunity to provide a Commentary on the working definition, which is below.
We are grateful for the opportunity to share the following articles with the recovery community. We will be asking for your thoughts and opinions in the coming months. They appeared in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment Volume 33, Issue 3, Pages 221-332 (October 2007) published by Elsevier, Inc.
- “What is recovery? A working definition from the Betty Ford Institute,” the Betty Ford Institute Consensus Panel
- “What does recovery mean to you? Lessons from the recovery experience for research and practice,” Dr. Alexandre B. Laudet, National Development and Research Institutes, Inc.
- “Addiction Recovery: Its definition and conceptual boundaries,” William L. White
- “Commentary on “Defining and Measuring ‘Recovery,” Stephan Arndt and Pat Taylor