Adding Recovery Professionals to the Continuum of Care

• By: Ruth Riddick The Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers of New York State (ASAP)
• July 1st, 2019
• addiction recovery, building recovery capital, continuum of care, life skills, peer support, recovery, recovery coaching, substance use disorder
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What is the purpose of our work, of all the prevention, intervention and therapy, all that merciful medical model and multi-volume DSM? The treatment plans? Aftercare? All this helping apparatus – what’s it for? Now, the agreed response is that “recovery” is our mutual goal irrespective...