Recovery Management

“Recovery from alcohol and drug problems is a process of change, through which an individual achieves abstinence and improved health, wellness and quality of life.”
Elements of Recovery Management

• Process of Empowerment
• Become part of your treatment and recovery planning. Recovery is personal.
• Assessment
• Assess both the problems and the STRENGTHS of you and your families
• Recovery resource development
• Identify and link  personal, professional, and community resources into your recovery management teams
• Get connected to Self Help Programs like AA/NA
• Recovery education and training
• Enhancing the recovery-based knowledge and skills through psycho education
• Ongoing monitoring and support
• Peer mentoring/recovery coaching
• Recovery advocacy
• Fight Social stigma and discrimination
• Advocating for systems that promote long-term recovery
• Evidence-based treatment and support services
• Seek services that remove barriers to recovery and enhance individuals’ recovery capital

Factors affecting treatment outcomes:

• Individual characteristics
• The nature and severity of problems
• Treatment process and services provided
• Environmental and social conditions