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eNewsletter - September 10, 2009
Rally for Recovery!
Faces & Voices is pleased to partner with A&E, recovery community and allied organizations for this year’s Rally for Recovery! We will be raising the national profile of recovery and our growing recovery movement as over 70,000 Americans come together at events all across the country on Saturday, September 12th.
To mark the 20th anniversary of National Recovery Month we will be letting the public and policymakers know that over 20 million Americans are in recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. Faces & Voices has been calling for a robust research agenda on the recovery experience and for the first time the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Data Strategy includes a goal for 2011 of using or obtaining data on persons in recovery from substance abuse and/or mental illness and services they need as well as the services they use.
In the meantime, based on information provided by Mark Willenbring, M.D. Director of the Treatment and Recovery Research Division of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism/National Institutes of Health, Faces & Voices will be saying that over 20 million Americans are in recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs.
This number does not include smoking and nicotine dependence.
Dr. Willenbring used the following sources to calculate this number:
Prevalence, Correlates, Disability, and Comorbidity of DSM-IV Alcohol Abuse and Dependence in the United States Results From the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions
Deborah S. Hasin, PhD; Frederick S. Stinson, PhD; Elizabeth Ogburn, MS; Bridget F. Grant, PhD, PhD Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2007;64(7):830-842.
http://www.censusscope.org/us/chart_age.html
Prevalence, Correlates, Disability, and Comorbidity of DSM-IV Drug Abuse and Dependence in the United States Results From the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions
Wilson M. Compton, MD, MPE; Yonette F. Thomas, PhD; Frederick S. Stinson, PhD; Bridget F. Grant, PhD, PhD Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2007;64(5):566-576.
For more information on the calculations, please email us.