What Does Science Say? Reviewing Recovery Research

A component of the Recovery to Practice (RTP) Initiative

Date: Thurs, February 28, 2013 @ 12pm - 1:30pm EST (11 CST/10 MST/9 PST)

Description: This webinar will review what is known about the resolution of severe alcohol and other drug problems from the standpoint of scientific and historical research.  The review will include information on the prevalence of recovery as well as thepathways, styles, stages, degrees and durability of recovery.

Learning Objectives: As a result of participating in this webinar, you will be able to:

• Report the estimated number of adults in remission from substance use disorders in the United States;
• Define partial recovery, full recovery, amplified recovery;
• Identify four styles of recovery initiation;
• List 3 identity and 4 relational styles in long-term recovery;
• Identify the time period at which the risk of future SUD recurrence for people in recovery dramatically declines; and
• Discuss at least 3 implications for addiction professionals of the growing varieties of recovery experience.

Presenter:  William (“Bill”) White

is a Senior Research Consultant at Chestnut Health Systems, past-chair of the board of Recovery Communities United and a volunteer consultant to Faces and Voices of Recovery.  He has a Master’s degree in Addiction Studies from Goddard College and has worked full time in the addictions field since 1969 as a streetworker, counselor, clinical director, trainer and researcher.   Bill has authored or co-authored more than 400 articles, monographs, research reports and book chapters and 16 books.  His book, Slaying the Dragon - The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America, received the McGovern Family Foundation Award for the best book on addiction recovery.  Bill’s sustained contributions to the treatment field in the United States have been acknowledged by awards from the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers, the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, NAADAC:  The Association of Addiction Professionals, the American Society of Addiction Medicine, and the Native American Wellbriety Movement.  His widely read papers on recovery advocacy are published in the book Let’s Go Make Some History:  Chronicles of the New Addiction Recovery Advocacy Movement. He has also recently published three seminal monographs:  Recovery Management and Recovery-oriented Systems of Care:  Scientific Rationale and Promising Practices, Peer-based Addiction Recovery Support:  History, Theory, Practice and Scientific Evaluation, and Recovery-oriented Methadone Maintenance.  His latest book, co-edited with John Kelly, is Addiction Recovery Management:  Theory, Research and Practice.  Bill’s collected papers can be found at www.williamwhitepapers.com

Who Should Attend: Direct care addiction counselors who provide addiction treatment and recovery services.

Archived: This webinar will be recorded for later viewing.  Complete the registration form to receive after the live broadcast links to the free recording and the online CE Quiz.  Click here (coming soon...) to download this one-hour webinar for free after the webinar!  Take the online CE Quiz (coming soon...) to earn credit for your time.