Resource Library

• The Potential of Recovery Capital
• A Primer for Addiction Professionals
• View video on ABC on developing recovery capital
• Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks
• Connected: The surprising power of our social networks and how they shape our lives
• What Did We Learn from Our Study on Sober Living Houses and Where Do We Go from Here
• Use of Program and Client-Level Data to Study Medical and Non-Medical Treatment Programs
• The Role of Community Services and Informal Support of Five-year drinking Trajectories of Alcohol Dependent and Problem Drinkers
• Social and Community Resources and Long-Term Recovery from Treated and Untreated Alcoholism
• Helping, Spirituality and Alcoholics Anonymous in Recovery
• Halfway Houses and Treatment Outcomes
• Elements That Define Recovery
• Advancing Recovery-Implementing Evidence-Based Treatment for Substance Use Disorders at the Systems Level
• A Clean and Sober Place to Live_ Philosophy, Structure, and Purported Therapeutic Factors in Sober Living Houses
• William White Interviews Dr. David Best
• The Assessment of Recovery Capital-Properties and psychometrics of a measure of addiction recovery strengths
• A Longitudinal Analysis of Psychiatric Severity upon Outcomes Among Substance Abusers Residing in Self-Help Settings
• The Role of Social Supports, Spirituality, Religiousness, Life Meaning and Affiliation

• The General Service Office of Alcoholics Anonymous
• New Addiction-Recovery Support Institutions: Mobilizing Support Beyond Professional Addiction Treatment and Recovery Mutual Aid

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Under development; an announcement will be forthcoming when this section is expanded.

• Results from the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Summary of National Findings
• State of the New Recovery Advocacy Movement 2013
• Know Your Rights-MAT
• Execs Guilty in Drug Test Kickback Scheme
• Medicaid Health Homes in Rhode Island

• The Price Florida Pays for Drug & Alcohol Abuse
• Drug testing-A White Paper of the American Society of Addiction Medicine
• Know Your Rights-MAT
• Florida State Statute 817.565
• Florida State Statute 456.054
• Florida State Statute 397.415
• Senate Bill 326
• House Bill 21
• Senate Bill 758 (Naloxone Bill)

Support Levels

 

Selecting a Property 

• The Evolution of Peer Run Sober Housing as a Recovery Resource for California Communities

Provisioning a Property

 

Creating a Staffing Plan

 

Job Descriptions

 

Pricing Marketplace Research

 

Marketing & Networking

 

Recovery Support, Recovery Planning, Recovery Coaches and CRPSS

 

Life Skills Support

 

Transportation

 

Financial Accounting

 

House Rules & Consequences

 

General Liability Insurance

 

For-Profit vs. Non-Profit

 

Recovery Residence Admistrator

Fair Housing Rights

• Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, and the Right to Fair Housing- How the Fair Housing Act Applies to Sober Living Homes
• Policy Guide on Community Residences
• Nevada Fair Housing Center, INC., Plaintiff, v. Clark County (subdv. of the State of Nevada)
• Three Legal Protections California Local Governments and Providers of Sober and Other Independent Living For Persons with Disabilities Need to Know
• Fair housing laws, zoning and land use regulations and how they impact residential alcohol and drug treatment programs and sober living residences
• Recovery Residence Report-Fiscal Year 2013-2014 General Appropriations Act
• SAMHSA: Know Your Rights
• Exploitation and Neglect in New York Recovery Housing

Support and Management

• A Pilot Study to Examine the Feasibility and Potential Effectiveness of Using Smartphones to Provide Recovery Support for Adolescents
• The effects of continuing care on emerging adult outcomes following residential addiction treatment

 

Recovery Planning

Under Development; an announcement will be forthcoming when this section is expanded.

 

Peer Community

• Facts about Peer Support Service
• Peer-Based Recovery Support Services
• Ethical Guide for the Delivery of Peer Services: 2007
• Peer recovery support for individuals with substance use disorders: assessing the evidence
• Recovery Learning Community-Outcomes Study
• Community Context of Sober Living Houses
• The Evolution of Peer Run Sober Housing as a Recovery Resource for California Communities
• A Primer on Recovery Residences- FAQs from NARR

 

Social Model

• The Social Model Approach to Substance Abuse Recovery- A Program of Research and Evaluation
• Maximizing Social Model Principles in Residential Recovery
• Social Model Philosophy Scale
• Therapeutic Communities for Addictions: A Review of Their Effectiveness from a Recovery-Oriented Perspective
• Predictors of Flexibility in Social Identity Among People Entering a Therapeutic Community for Substance Abuse
• Introduction to Spcial Issue Paper: Architecture Enhances Mutual Aid in Sober Living Houses
• Models of Recovery

Sites

• http://www.samhsa.gov/recovery
• http://www.drugabuse.gov/
• http://www.fadaa.org/
• http://niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/
• http://www.garrnow.org/
• http://narronline.org/
• http://www.soberhousing.net/
• http://www.soberlivingohio.com/
• http://tnarr.org/
• http://www.williamwhitepapers.com/

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• Moos RH. Theory-based processes that promote the remission of substance use disorders. Clinical Psychology Review. 2007;27:537–551. [PMC free article] [PubMed]
• Moos BS, Moos RH. Treated and untreated individuals with alcohol use disorders: Rates and predictors of remission and relapse. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology. 2006;6:513–526.
• Petersilia J. When Prisoners Come Home: Parole and Prisoner Reentry. Oxford University Press; New York: 2003.
• Polcin DL. How Health Services Research Can Help Clinical Trials Become More Community Relevant. International Journal of Drug Policy. 2006a;17(3):230–237.
• Polcin DL. Reexamining confrontation and motivational interviewing. Addictive Disorders and their Treatment. 2006b;5(4):201–209.
• Polcin DL. What about sober living houses for parolees? Criminal Justice Studies: A Critical Journal of Crime, Law and Society. 2006c;19:291–300.
• Polcin DL. A model for sober housing during outpatient treatment. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. 2009;41(2):153–161. [PMC free article] [PubMed]
• Polcin DL, Henderson D. A clean and sober place to live: Philosophy, structure, and purported therapeutic factors in sober living houses. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. 2008;40(2):153–159. [PMC free article] [PubMed]
• Polcin DL, Korcha R, Bond J, Galloway GP. Sober Living Houses for Alcohol and Drug Dependence: 18-Month Outcomes. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. 2010;38(4):356–365. [PMC free article] [PubMed]
• Polcin DL, Korcha R, Bond J, Galloway GP. Eighteen month outcomes for clients receiving combined outpatient treatment and sober living houses. Journal of Substance Use. in press. [PMC free article] [PubMed]
• Polcin DL, Korcha R, Bond J, Galloway GP, Lapp W. Recovery from addiction in two types of sober living houses: 12-month outcomes. Addiction Research and Theory. in press.
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• White WL. Slaying the dragon: The history of addiction treatment and recovery in America. Chestnut Health Systems; Bloomington, IL: 1998.
• Zywiak WH, Longabaugh R, Wirtz PW. Decomposing the relationships between pretreatment social network characteristics and alcohol treatment outcome. Journal of Studies on Alcohol. 2002;63:114–121. [PubMed]