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Clarifying Language and Acronyms: Substance Use Disorders and Medications
Acronyms can create confusion, especially when there are many acronyms surrounding a particular topic. Key terms in recovery and treatment are no exception. This overview emphasizes the importance of clear language in addressing these complex issues.
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Facts and Personal Recovery Stories to Reduce Substance Use Disorder Stigma and Increase Support for Recovery Housing: a US Randomized Study
A randomized study of five message conditions — education about recovery housing, and a personal recovery story told as identified text, anonymous text or video — measuring the effect on stigma and on support for recovery housing.
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Episode 4: Systems, Data, and the Social-Experiential Model
Tony sits down with Dr. Brandee Izquierdo, Director of Behavioral Health at The Pew Charitable Trusts, to explore how lived experience, policy, data, and recovery housing can strengthen recovery ecosystems. Together, they discuss the Social-Experiential Model of Recovery, the role of recovery homes, support for unhoused and justice-involved individuals, and how communities can use data for improvement rather than surveillance. This conversation reminds us that recovery is more than treatment or crisis response. It is about building a full life across Health, Home, Purpose, and Community.
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Perceived agency and paternalism: Increasing support for people with substance use disorder
An experiment testing how portraying people in recovery as having high or low agency changes what donors give — and whether they route that money to recovery houses or directly to individuals.
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Virtual Networking
The ability to network within virtual spaces has become a valuable skill to master over the past year. These skills will be important beyond the pandemic as many employers predict work-from-home careers and virtual networking will remain as part of a new normal. This short course provides an introductory overview of virtual networking.
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Episode 5: Community Policing, Deflection, and Pre-Arrest Diversion as Recovery Ecosystem Strategies
Chief Celisa Lehew, Chief of Police for the Chapel Hill Police Department, joins Recovery Ecosystem Radio to explore how law enforcement can serve as a critical front door for recovery. The discussion focuses on community policing, deflection, pre-arrest diversion, public safety, housing recovery, and how strong partnerships can connect people to Health, Home, Purpose, and Community rather than deeper involvement in the justice system. This episode reminds us that public safety and recovery are not separate; they are connected through dignity, trust, accountability, and real pathways to long-term recovery.
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The Business of Recovery: Understanding Operational Costs and Funding Sources in Recovery Housing in the United States
What it actually costs to run recovery housing. A national survey of 408 organizations operating 1,458 houses, estimating annual operating costs, where the money goes, and which revenue sources the industry depends on.
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Social Model of Recovery
Explore the Social Model of Recovery and how it creates recovery-oriented environments that promote independence, personal responsibility, and connection. This video explains how peer-led, peer-driven recovery housing uses supportive, home-like environments and lived experience to empower residents to take ownership of their recovery and build skills for long-term recovery.
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Episode 3: Policy, Peers, and the Connective Tissue of Recovery
Tony White sits down with Dona Dmitrovic, Acting Director of the Office of Recovery at SAMHSA, to explore how policy, services, and lived experience can work together to support long-term recovery. This episode looks at SAMHSA’s Four Dimensions of Recovery — Health, Home, Purpose, and Community — and how communities can build the “connective tissue” people need: no-wrong-door access, warm handoffs, full-circle follow-through, quality recovery housing, and peer support. Listen in for a conversation about turning recovery from an individual journey into a community-supported recovery pathway.
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Implementing contingency management into rural recovery housing: recommendations of a professional advisory expert panel
Recommendations from a national expert panel on bringing contingency management into rural recovery houses, where dropout rates run high — covering the practical and ethical questions implementation raises.
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Opening Episode: Recovery is the Expectation: Introducing Recovery Ecosystem Radio
In this opening episode, host Tony White shares part of his own recovery journey and introduces the heart of the podcast: what it takes for whole communities to become places where recovery is not the exception; it is the expectation. The episode defines a recovery ecosystem, explores Health, Home, Purpose, and Community, and highlights the role of lived experience, peer leadership, warm handoffs, recovery housing, pre-arrest deflection and diversion, reentry, and community connection in building long-term recovery. Listen in and join us as we begin the conversation about building recovery-ready communities where people do not have to recover alone.
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