Category:SAFE-Treatment and Recovery
Treatment and Recovery is one of SAFE Project's six lines of operation, a comprehensive approach to ending this epidemic. It provides resources, consultation, and programming to strengthen and advance community efforts to effectively respond to substance use challenges.
SAFE conducts and coordinates trainings and events, and seeks to educate on substance use disorders and treatment and recovery best practices. Objectives include:
- Provide education on substance use disorder and best practices for treatment and recovery services
- Support and advance effective treatment and recovery efforts
- Advocate for improvements in treatment and recovery systems and services
- Provide resources on effective and innovative treatment and recovery support practices
- Unify communities to strengthen treatment and recovery efforts
By the Numbers:
- There are roughly 25-million Americans living in long-term recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. (“Facing Addiction in American, US Surgeon General, 2016)
- Research on alcohol, drug use, and addiction, has led to one clear conclusion: Addiction to alcohol or drugs is a chronic but treatable brain disease that requires medical intervention, NOT moral judgment. (“Facing Addiction in America, US Surgeon General, 2016)
- Women may be more likely to take prescription opioids without a prescription to cope with pain, even when men and women report similar pain levels. Research also suggests that women are more likely to misuse prescription opioids to self-treat for other problems such as anxiety or tension. (NIDA, Substance Use in Women, 2018)
- Daily marijuana use is its highest level since the early 1980s for young adults, with 4.9 percent of college students and 12.8 percent of non-college peers reporting daily use. (NIDA, 2016, “Monitoring the Future”)
SAFE Campuses
SAFE Campuses was designed to create and strengthen efforts to ensure that collegiate recovery programs (CRPs) or other adequate recovery support services are present on every college campus nationwide. The program provides college students with the tools and support they need to succeed in the lifelong journey of addiction recovery. It also provides collegiate institutions with the knowledge and solutions necessary to effectively support students who are in or seeking recovery from substance use disorder. SAFE Campuses promotes healthy living and empowers college students in recovery to be positive leaders on campus and in life.
The Collegiate Recovery Leadership Academy[1] was created in 2018, through the SAFE Campuses initiative. The goal of the Leadership Academy is to develop and cultivate future leaders from college campuses across the nation. The Leadership Academy is an academic year-long fellowship for any college student who is passionate about the intersection of collegiate recovery, leadership, and service to others. It is open to students who are in recovery, as well as recovery allies.
Pages in category "SAFE-Treatment and Recovery"
The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
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- Improve Access to Quality Treatment Programs
- Improve Care for Babies Born Drug Dependent
- Improve Education, Job Training and Employment for People in Recovery
- Improve Links to Treatment for People who Experience a Non-Lethal Overdoses or Naloxone Revivals
- Improve Recovery Housing and Family Support
- Improve Tracking of Recovery Progress
- Increase Access to Overdose Reversal Medications
- Increase Community Presentations to Reduce Stigma
