The allegory of the lake: The implications of an Inclusive Recovery Cities model for prevention and early intervention
Position Paper: Centre for Addiction Recovery Research (by David Best) Rationale and background: The inclusive cities model was...
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David Best, Ph.D.
Sep 15, 20235 min read
What does it mean to be a ‘treatment and recovery service’?
“There are enormous differences between professionally-directed treatment institutions and mutual aid societies, just as there are...
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David Best, Ph.D.
Aug 24, 20235 min read
An ecological model of recovery for recovery residences in the United States
Background One of the central tenets of recovery is that it is intrinsically and fundamentally social as I outline in my 2019 book,...
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David Best, Ph.D.
Jul 3, 20234 min read
Sowing the Seeds for Sustainable Recovery
The world of recovery is replete with innovation – and one of the aims of this blog is to highlight innovation and partnership. There are...
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David Best, Ph.D.
May 18, 20234 min read
Inclusive Recovery Cities
Inclusive Recovery Cities Launched at the Riverside Football Stadium, Middlesbrough on the 9th of May 2023 Professor David Best Centre of...
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David Best, Ph.D.
Apr 13, 20235 min read
Building Recovery Capital Through Recovery Care Planning
Maike Klein and David Best It is now generally accepted that addiction treatment and recovery operate according to fundamentally...
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David Best, Ph.D.
Mar 31, 20235 min read
Mapping recovery capital growth in Virginia
Based on the peer-reviewed journal article: Citation “Best, D., Sondhi, A., Best, J., Lehman, J., Grimes, A., Conner, M. & DeTriquet, B....
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David Best, Ph.D.
Feb 3, 20234 min read
Cascading contagion: Creating environments where recovery contagion can flourish
One of the most exciting things about my job is coming across incredible innovations and initiatives that promote recovery and create the...
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David Best, Ph.D.
Jan 20, 20234 min read
Co-producing recovery measurement: A partnership approach to developing holistic recovery measures
Rationale: In recent years we have had some significant successes in developing the REC-CAP as a system for measuring recovery capital...
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David Best, Ph.D.
Nov 28, 20224 min read
Recovery Allies and Recovery Cascades
What is the background? Alison Jones Webb has produced an excellent book called “Recovery Allies: How to support addiction recovery and...
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David Best, Ph.D.
Nov 8, 20225 min read
National Alliance for Recovery Residence (NARR) Best Practices
Background I have been fortunate enough to have been able to work with a number of US recovery residences over the course of the last six...
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David Best, Ph.D.
Oct 23, 20226 min read
What can a LERO do in a recovery-oriented system of care?
Background and UK context In the UK, there is an emerging movement to support and sustain community-based recovery, primarily through the...
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David Best, Ph.D.
Oct 11, 20225 min read
Accessing and generating community capital: The role of residential treatment services
Introduction In the last few weeks, I have been asked twice to reflect on accessing and generating community capital in the context of...
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David Best, Ph.D.
Sep 5, 20225 min read
Measuring and building recovery capital in recovery community settings
Background: One of my proudest achievements in recent years has been the birth and growth of the College of Lived Experience Recovery...
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David Best, Ph.D.
Jul 18, 20224 min read
What can you count beyond the REC-CAP?
As a junior academic, I was lucky enough to be exposed to the incredible and innovative work on Organisational Culture and Readiness to...
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David Best, Ph.D.
Jun 30, 20222 min read
Beginning Cultivation
Welcome to the first in what will be a monthly series of briefing notes provided to the partners of ROI to update you on evidence,...
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