G-CHIME Framework to Examine Adolescent Addiction Recovery in Alternative Peer Groups: A Qualitative Analysis.

Background: Research examining mechanisms that underlie adolescent addiction recovery can help inform best practices for this at-risk group. Alternative Peer Groups (APGs) are recovery supports intending to facilitate positive peer connections and prosocial activities. Consistent with the G-CHIME framework (Ogilvie & Carson, 2022), theory suggests APGs enhance adolescent recovery through Connectedness with APG peers and leaders, leading to Growth, Hope, Identity, Meaning, and Empowerment.

A Qualitative Examination of Addiction Disclosure and Stigma among Recovering Adolescents.

Background: The stigma attached to alcohol or other drug use (AOD) disorders can lead to poorer treatment outcomes. Adolescents, who are developing their social identity, may hesitate to disclose their disorder and are vulnerable to stigmatizing experiences. Adolescents' preferred ways of discussing AOD disorder have not been explored.

Do posttreatment increases in social recovery capital mediate the relationship between lower internalizing symptoms and less substance use?

Objective: Substance use disorders frequently co-occur with internalizing disorders, such as depression and anxiety, particularly among emerging adults in treatment. While a growing literature has examined bidirectional associations between internalizing symptoms and substance use, findings remain mixed. The present study investigated whether social recovery capital (SRC) mediated bidirectional internalizing symptoms and substance use behaviors associations.

One-stop shopping for recovery? A systematic review of the evidence on U.S. recovery community centers.

Background: Increased recognition of the need for community-based substance use disorder (SUD) recovery support services (RSS) to complement and extend clinical care efforts has led to growth in a variety of RSS including recovery community centers (RCCs). Given increased national focus on expanding RCC research, this systematic review examined published research on RCCs.

Method: We searched five publicly available empirical databases to retrieve existing studies on the effects of RCC participation through May 2024.

Recovery housing for substance use disorder: a systematic review.

Recovery housing, an abstinence-based living environment, is the most widely available form of substance use disorder (SUD) recovery support infrastructure. This systematic review characterized the randomized control trials (RCT) and quasi-experimental designs (QED) research on recovery housing. We conducted a search across PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO and CENTRAL published prior to February 2024.

PROTOCOL: Mutual Help Organizations to Support Recovery Among Individuals Who Use Drugs: A Systematic Review Protocol.

This is the protocol for a Campbell systematic review. The objectives are as follows: (1) What kinds of mutual-help organizations for drug use disorders have been studied with evidence available in the empirical literature? (2) What is the nature of the evidence with regard to the different types of mutual-help organizations?-(a) To what extent are these entities shown to help initiate, sustain, and enhance rates of remission from drug use disorders and improve other functional outcomes when the available evidence is subjected to rigorous scientific scrutiny? (b) To what extent do different mutual-help organizations confer differential benefit and to whom, how, and over what period? (c) To what extent have cost benefit or cost effectiveness studies indicated that these entities are cost-effective?

Substance use recovery needs among college students seeking recovery services: a thematic qualitative analysis.

Background: College students who are in recovery from substance use disorders face challenges related to abstaining from substance use, finding supportive social networks, and achieving their academic goals. These students may therefore seek out various recovery supports at their institutions to meet their needs and goals.

Methods: This study analyzed previously collected data to explore themes related to students' experiences of recovery, including their recovery needs and challenges while also attending college.

Improving Social Recovery Capital Research To Enhance Clinical Utility: A Proposed Agenda.

Social recovery capital (SRC) is the combination of social resources that can be used to initiate and sustain addiction recovery through friends, family, and peers. Broadly, understanding one's SRC allows us to get a sense of where one has social support for recovery and where there may be social barriers to their recovery process. SRC is often a vital component of many people's recovery journey, yet our understanding of how best to use this concept in research and practice remains underdeveloped.

Measuring recovery capital for people recovering from alcohol and drug addiction: A systematic review.

Background: Recovery capital theory provides a biopsychosocial framework for identifying and measuring strengths and barriers that can be targeted to support recovery from alcohol and drug addiction. This systematic review analyzed and synthesized all quantitative approaches that have measured recovery capital since 2016.

Method: Three databases were searched to identify studies published from 2016 to 2023.

Modeling Recovery Housing Retention and Program Outcomes by Justice Involvement among Residents in Virginia, USA: An Observational Study.

Living in recovery housing can improve addiction recovery and desistance outcomes. This study examined whether retention in recovery housing and types of discharge outcomes (completed, "neutral," and "negative" outcomes) differed for clients with recent criminal legal system (CLS) involvement. Using data from 101 recovery residences certified by the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences based on 1,978 individuals completing the REC-CAP assessment, competing risk analyses (cumulative incidence function, restricted mean survival time, and restricted mean time lost) followed by the marginalization of effects were implemented to examine program outcomes at final discharge.

Visualizing the Influence of Social Networks on Recovery: A Mixed-Methods Social Identity Mapping Study with Recovering Adolescents.

Social recovery capital (SRC) refers to resources and supports gained through relationships and is vital to adolescent addiction recovery. Much is known about how substance use relates to social networks, but little is known about how other dimensions of social networks influence recovery (e.g.

Implementing a Recovery Capital Model Into Therapeutic Courts: Case Study and Lessons Learned.

Recovery capital is a strengths-based and multi-level model for examining the process and outputs of recovery and desistance. Recovery capital posits that the more positive resources one accrues, the better the chances of recovery. Oftentimes growth of one's recovery capital must be initiated through identifying programs in the community to create supportive scaffolding: this may be especially true for individuals involved in the justice system who may experience additional barriers to accessing programming.

A qualitative examination of social identity and stigma among adolescents recovering from alcohol or drug use.

Introduction: Alcohol and other drug (AOD) use disorders are stigmatized conditions, but little is known about youth's experience of this stigma, which may threaten their developing social identity and recovery process. This study investigates youth's perceptions of AOD use-related stigma in the context of their social identity.

Methods: This study uses data from 12 youth (ages 17-19) who were in recovery from problematic AOD use.

"A lot better than it used to be": A qualitative study of adolescents' dynamic social recovery capital.

Background: Substance use recovery is a dynamic process for youth, and social networks are tied to the recovery process. The (RCAM) situates the resources accessible through social networks - social recovery capital (SRC) - in a larger framework of developmentally-informed recovery resources. This study aims to investigate the social network experiences among recovering youth enrolled in a recovery high school to understand how social influences help to build, or act as barriers to building, recovery capital.

Parenting to provide social recovery capital: A qualitative study.

Background: Although research demonstrates the necessity of social recovery capital (SRC) for youth in recovery, through having family that do not use substances and who support their recovery, the ways in which parents actually enact SRC have not been empirically examined. This qualitative study applied the Recovery Capital Model for Adolescents to group interview data from parent(s) of youth who resolved a substance use disorder (SUD) to explore the ways parents enacted SRC.

Method: The interviews were conducted in a prior ethnographic study in which parents of alternative peer group (APG) alumni volunteered to participate in a group interview; five mothers and five fathers of APG alumni participated in the interviews (n=10).

The evidence synthesis and meta-analysis in R conference (ESMARConf): levelling the playing field of conference accessibility and equitability.

Rigorous evidence is vital in all disciplines to ensure efficient, appropriate, and fit-for-purpose decision-making with minimised risk of unintended harm. To date, however, disciplines have been slow to share evidence synthesis frameworks, best practices, and tools amongst one another. Recent progress in collaborative digital and programmatic frameworks, such as the free and Open Source software R, have significantly expanded the opportunities for development of free-to-use, incrementally improvable, community driven tools to support evidence synthesis (e.

Advancing the science of evaluating Collegiate Recovery Program processes and outcomes: A recovery capital perspective.

Collegiate recovery programs (CRPs) offer resources and programming for postsecondary students in addiction recovery to ensure they can initiate or maintain their recovery and complete college. To achieve these goals, CRPs offer a variety of activities that research and theory suggests should produce positive outcomes among their students; yet the lack of systematic evaluation research in this area means it is unknown which programming components may drive outcomes. Recovery capital theory posits a variety of factors at multiple ecological levels that might influence students' recovery experience and their engagement and success in community programs like CRPs.

The science of recovery capital: where do we go from here?

Background: The concept of recovery capital (RC) has emerged in studies and discussions of the addiction recovery process and as a potential metric and marker for recovery gains. Although conceptual and applied development of the concept in the 20 years since the term was coined has increased, there remains insufficient clarity of key domains, factors and best practice research and applications for populations experiencing addiction. We aimed to review progress around the conceptualisation and operationalisation of RC and to consider future directions for a science of recovery capital.

Best Practices for Meta-Reviews in Physical Activity and Health Research: Insights From the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans Advisory Committee Scientific Report.

Background: Systematic reviews (SRs) and meta-analyses (MAs) have proliferated with a concomitant increase in reviews of SRs/MAs or "meta-reviews" (MRs). As uncovered by the 2018 US Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee (PAGAC), there is a paucity of best practice guidance on MRs on physical activity health-related research. This manuscript aims to fill this gap.

Ensuring Prevention Science Research is Synthesis-Ready for Immediate and Lasting Scientific Impact.

When seeking to inform and improve prevention efforts and policy, it is important to be able to robustly synthesize all available evidence. But evidence sources are often large and heterogeneous, so understanding what works, for whom, and in what contexts can only be achieved through a systematic and comprehensive synthesis of evidence. Many barriers impede comprehensive evidence synthesis, which leads to uncertainty about the generalizability of intervention effectiveness, including inaccurate titles/abstracts/keywords terminology (hampering literature search efforts), ambiguous reporting of study methods (resulting in inaccurate assessments of study rigor), and poorly reported participant characteristics, outcomes, and key variables (obstructing the calculation of an overall effect or the examination of effect modifiers).

Community-level factors and incidence of gun violence in the United States, 2014-2017.

Rationale And Objective: In the United States, gun violence claims thousands of lives each year and is a pressing public health issue. To gain a better understanding of this phenomenon, this study spatially analyzed county- and state-level predictors of yearly gun violence rates and gun-related casualty rates.

Methods: This study modeled hypothesized predictors of gun violence incidence and casualties across four years.

A multi-site study of emerging adults in collegiate recovery programs at public institutions.

Background: Collegiate Recovery Programs (CRPs) are campus-based support programs for substance use and recovery needs among college students. These CRPs utilize a variety of program activities and components aimed at promoting healthy development and sobriety while encouraging college retention among participants.

Objectives: Describe the types of activities and administrative structures used in CRPs, examine the characteristics of students involved in this sample, and explore changes in students' outcomes after they have enrolled in a CRP.