Maintaining Recovery as a Central Focus of Substance Use Disorder Services

• By: Arlene González-Sánchez NY State Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS)
• July 1st, 2016
• addiction recovery, community-based services, opioid epidemic, peer support, recovery-oriented care, substance use disorders, supportive housing, treatment access
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For years, the health care system treated addiction as an acute condition: an individual battling addiction would be diagnosed, treated, guided to support and then left to their own devices on whether to succeed, or fail, in recovery. The good news is: for New York State, that is no longer the...