What has been achieved to date? April 2025 will see the publication of the Handbook of Recovery Capital by Bristol University Press...

Position Paper: Centre for Addiction Recovery Research (by David Best) Rationale and background: The inclusive cities model was...

“There are enormous differences between professionally-directed treatment institutions and mutual aid societies, just as there are...

Background One of the central tenets of recovery is that it is intrinsically and fundamentally social as I outline in my 2019 book,...

The world of recovery is replete with innovation – and one of the aims of this blog is to highlight innovation and partnership. There are...

Inclusive Recovery Cities Launched at the Riverside Football Stadium, Middlesbrough on the 9th of May 2023 Professor David Best Centre of...

Maike Klein and David Best It is now generally accepted that addiction treatment and recovery operate according to fundamentally...

Based on the peer-reviewed journal article: Citation “Best, D., Sondhi, A., Best, J., Lehman, J., Grimes, A., Conner, M. & DeTriquet, B....

One of the most exciting things about my job is coming across incredible innovations and initiatives that promote recovery and create the...

Rationale: In recent years we have had some significant successes in developing the REC-CAP as a system for measuring recovery capital...

What is the background? Alison Jones Webb has produced an excellent book called “Recovery Allies: How to support addiction recovery and...

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...

Background and UK context In the UK, there is an emerging movement to support and sustain community-based recovery, primarily through the...

Introduction In the last few weeks, I have been asked twice to reflect on accessing and generating community capital in the context of...

Background: One of my proudest achievements in recent years has been the birth and growth of the College of Lived Experience Recovery...

As a junior academic, I was lucky enough to be exposed to the incredible and innovative work on Organisational Culture and Readiness to...

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,...