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David Best, Ph.D.

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...

David Best, Ph.D.

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...

David Best, Ph.D.

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...

David Best, Ph.D.

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...

David Best, Ph.D.

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...

David Best, Ph.D.

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...

David Best, Ph.D.

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...

David Best, Ph.D.

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...

David Best, Ph.D.

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,...