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 W. Best Ph.D.
David Best, Ph.D.
- Aug 24
- 5 min
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
- 4 min
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
- 4 min
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
- 5 min
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.
- Apr 1
- 5 min
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
- 4 min
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
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 5 min
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, 2022
- 6 min
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, 2022
- 5 min
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 6, 2022
- 5 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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.
- Jul 1, 2022
- 2 min
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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