Recovery Monographs Volume I

The six monographs by William L. White in Recovery Management / Recovery Oriented Systems of Care offer a new vision and new service technologies that promise to transform addiction treatment. White and fellow authors show how the field can move from a singular focus on initiating recovery toward a system that supports and promotes an improved quality of life and long-term addiction recovery. The series includes: Linking Addiction Treatment & Communities of Recovery: A Primer for Addiction Counselors and Recovery Coaches: Written by William White, MA and Ernest Kurtz, PhD, this monograph opens the door to real change in the professional addiction treatment community. Addressed to the thousands of counselors and therapists on the front line, it offers them a new paradigm that focuses on an integration of clinical treatment with the recovery movement. Recovery Management: Based on growing evidence of addiction as a chronic and complex disorder, the addiction treatment field faces an increasing need to shift the current acute care model of treatment toward a model of assertive and sustained recovery management. This monograph presents findings from scientific studies and recommendations from new grassroots recovery advocacy and support organizations that are collectively pushing a fundamental redesign of addiction treatment in the United States. Perspectives on Systems Transformation: How Visionary Leaders are Shifting Addiction Treatment Toward a Recovery-Oriented System of Care: The interviews in this monograph provide detailed discussions of the ways in which leaders at all levels are transforming addiction treatment into a truly recovery-oriented system of care. Recovery Management & Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care: Scientific Rationale and Promising Practices. This monograph lays out the empirical support for moving to recovery-oriented systems of care and outlines concrete steps for recovery management and achieving transformation in our treatment system. Peer-based Addiction Recovery Support: History, Theory, Practice, and Scientific Evaluation: Addiction treatment and recovery in the United States contains a rich "wounded healer" tradition. Formal peer-based recovery support services (PBRSS) are peer-based recovery support and examines its history and future in the United States. Recovery-Oriented Methadone Maintenance: There are growing calls to shift the acute care model of addiction treatment to a model of sustained recovery support similar to the long-term management of other chronic diseases. This monograph explores what this shift means to the design and delivery of methadone maintenance treatment in the United States.