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. 2023;31(5):370-377.
doi: 10.1080/16066359.2023.2179996. Epub 2023 Feb 22.

Social Model Recovery and Recovery Housing

Amy A Mericle  1 , Jason Howell  2 , Thomasina Borkman  3 , Meenakshi S Subbaraman  4 , Beth Fisher Sanders  5 , Douglas L Polcin  4
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Social Model Recovery and Recovery Housing

Amy A Mericle et al. Addict Res Theory. 2023.

Abstract

Recovery housing is an important resource for many in their recovery from alcohol and other drug use disorders. Yet providers of recovery housing face a number of challenges. Many of these challenges are rooted in stigma and bias about recovery housing. The ability to describe the service and purported mechanisms of action vis-a-vis an overarching framework, approach, or orientation could also go a long way in adding credence to recovery housing as a service delivery mechanism. Several aspects of social model recovery are often explicitly built or organically reflected in how recovery housing operates, yet describing recovery housing in these terms often does little to demystify key features of recovery housing. To more fully cement social model recovery as the organizing framework for recovery housing this article aims to: review the history, current status, and evidence base for social model recovery; comment on challenges to implementing the social model in recovery housing; and delineate steps to overcome these challenges and establish an evidence base for social model recovery housing.

Keywords: Recovery; experiential knowledge; peer support; recovery housing; recovery residences; social model.

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NARR Recovery Residence Levels Described
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Social Model Philosophy Domains and Key Recovery Housing Elements
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