Recovery-Oriented Services

The range of services like housing support, employment assistance, and vocational training that address practical needs and promote stability and independence during recovery.

Faith-Based Addiction Recovery

Website

This article explores how faith-based recovery programs combine spiritual support with evidence-based addiction treatment to help people achieve and maintain recovery. These programs integrate religious beliefs and practices with services...

A European Guide on Dual disorders: Health and Social Responses

Guide

21 May 2026

This European guide by EUDA highlights the importance of addressing dual disorders, where mental health conditions and substance use disorders occur at the same time. These co-occurring conditions are common and often lead to poorer health...

Our stories matter: A guide for publicly sharing lived and living experience of suicide

Guide

Every quote in this resource suite has been provided by a person with lived and living experience. We have drawn on this broad collection of unique insights to develop guidance resources that can support others who may want to share their...

Bristol Recovery Festival 2026

18 June 2026

Bristol

United Kingdom

We're back! This year's Recovery Festival will be held at Trinity Centre on 18th June 2026

The Opioid Crisis Practical Toolkit: Supporting Faith and Community Responses

Toolkit

This practical toolkit highlights the role of faith-based and community leaders in responding to the opioid crisis in the United States. Developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, it recognizes that community and faith...

Belief, Behavior, and Belonging: How Faith is Indispensable in Preventing and Recovering from Substance Abuse

Scientific article

21 July 2019

This study reviews evidence on the role of faith and spirituality in preventing substance use and supporting recovery. It highlights that many addiction treatment programs in the United States include a spiritual component, particularly...

William White: The Architect of Modern Recovery Science

News

William White has become one of the defining voices in the world of recovery. He did not set out to lead the movement – he set out to understand the people treatment systems were failing. Over the last five decades, his work has helped to...

Wellness Recovery Action Plan – A Strengths-Based Recovery Tool

Toolkit

The Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) is a structured, self-management tool for substance use and mental health. It was developed by Mary Anne Copeland in the early 1990s, based on the lived experiences of people in recovery, and focused...

Inclusive Recovery Cities – Creating a Thriving Recovery Ecosystem

Community update

20 April 2026

Inclusive Recovery Cities was developed by Professor David Best and Professor Charlotte Colman, based on the idea that recovery from substance use and alcohol is not limited to the individual or to clinical treatment, but is about...

A photo from Inclusive Recovery City in Middlesbrough.

CHIME and Addiction Recovery: Understanding What Helps People Build Recovery

Scientific article

1 December 2011

When we talk about recovery, we no longer look at only stopping substance use, abstinence or sobriety alone. The remission of symptoms is only one aspect of the process, and even that is sometimes debated in the research. Recovery is...

An image of a road path with the word 'Recovery' leading towards the sunrise.