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This brochure provides a working definition and 10 guiding principles for recovery from mental illness and substance use disorders.
What's Recovery? SAMHSA's Working Definition
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This resource discusses the relationship between sleep disturbances and substance use disorders among people in recovery. It provides guidance on assessing and treating sleep issues. It also reviews non-pharmacological, over-the-counter, and prescription drugs.
This brochure explains the signs and symptoms of retraumatization. Gives guidance on how to manage the symptoms. It provides resources for building resilience and an adequate support system for dealing with triggering events.
This guide equips clinicians with practical guidance to address the needs of men in recovery. It addresses screening and assessment, treatment issues, working with specific populations of men, and male-appropriate treatment modalities and settings.
This brief report presents self-reports of recovery among adults aged 18 and older in the United States who thought they ever had a problem with their use of drugs or alcohol and/or mental health. These findings provide a clearer characterization of the factors associated with recovery among adults and how future efforts can foster a whole-health approach to sustain recovery from mental health and substance use conditions.
