Every September the Recovery Month Campaign aims to increase awareness and understanding of mental and substance use disorders and celebrate the people who recover. 

Over the years, Recovery Month has promoted and supported new evidence-based treatment and recovery practices, the strong and proud recovery community, and dedication of service providers and community members across the nation who make recovery in all its forms possible.

The SAMHSA Recovery Month 2019 theme is Join the Voices for Recovery: Together We Are Stronger, placing emphasis on the need to share resources and build...

The Recovery Research Institute have developed a new website that aims to answer the most common questions asked about addiction.

Addiction 101 addresses questions such as:

• What is the prevalence and cause of addiction?
• What does addiction feel like and what is the potential impact?

The easy to use website also includes a list of commonly used definitions relating to addiction and lists links to several guides, resources, articles and books addressing addiction and evidence-based practice.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has released a number of new resources.

These are aimed at those working within the criminal justice system and other environments where people in recovery from drug addiction are ready to return to their daily lives.

Click here to access the resources.