Resource Library

The resources on this list provide education on peer support practices, best practices in supervision, and recovery-oriented services.

In this rapidly growing and ever-evolving field of peer recovery support services (PRSS), language often carries different meanings depending on region, State, or a particular program. This can lead to misunderstandings or miscommunication. This document is designed to assist Targeted Capacity Expansion—Peer-to-Peer (TCE-PTP) grantees define and clarify key roles and terms that are part of the TCE-PTP grant project: peer leader, peer participant, peer leadership, and peer leader advisory councils.

For people with substance use disorder (SUD), the road to recovery can be long and hard. And in rural communities, where rates of overdose mortality have increased at higher rates than in urban areas, limited access to treatment makes the journey even more difficult. The ROADSS program addresses that disparity by bringing treatment and resources that have been proven to save lives closer to home.

SAMHSA has posted an Executive Summary of the August 2022 Recovery Now! Summit that the agency hosted for 200 in-person and virtual participants to collaborate on the Office of Recovery’s National Recovery Agenda. Representatives included persons with lived experience of mental health or substance use challenges and recovery, substance use preventionists, harm reductionists, treatment and recovery support providers, researchers, staff of federal and state partners, and other allies. Several team members from the Peer Recovery Center of Excellence were in attendance and helped facilitate conversations.

This document updates SAMHSA's 2018 document and outlines best practices for the implementation and operation of recovery housing. These best practices are intended to serve as a tool for states, governing bodies, providers, recovery house operators, and other interested stakeholders to improve the health of their citizens, reduce incidence of overdose, and promote recovery housing as a key support strategy in achieving and sustaining recovery.

SAMHSA is committed to improving prevention, treatment, and recovery support services for mental and substance use disorders. The Evidence-Based Practices Resource Center provides communities, clinicians, policy-makers and others with the information and tools to incorporate evidence-based practices into their communities or clinical settings.

The N-SUMHSS is a voluntary annual survey of all active substance use and mental health facilities in the United States, its territories, and D.C. The annual report presents findings on the key operational characteristics of substance use and mental health treatment facilities, use of pharmacotherapies, language assistance services, and suicide prevention assistance services.

This brief report presents self-reports of recovery among adults aged 18 and older in the United States who thought they ever had a problem with their use of drugs or alcohol and/or mental health. These findings provide a clearer characterization of the factors associated with recovery among adults and how future efforts can foster a whole-health approach to sustain recovery from mental health and substance use conditions.

This TIP supports learning about the key aspects, functions, and uses of Peer Support Services (PSS) in recovery from problematic substance use, which will help providers, supervisors, and administrators in SUD treatment programs better understand and respond to these changes.

This site contains the full text of more than 300 articles, 8 monographs, 30+ recovery tools, 9 book chapters, 3 books, and links to an additional 18 books written by William White and co-authors over the past four decades as well as more than 100 interviews with addiction treatment and recovery leaders. The purpose of this site is to create a single location where such material may be located by those interested in the history of addiction treatment and recovery in the United States. Those papers selected for inclusion contain all of the articles and monographs authored by William White on the new recovery advocacy movement, recovery management and recovery-oriented systems of care. It is hoped that this resource library will serve present and future generations of addiction professionals, recovery coaches and recovery advocates.

Access resources to help you share personal stories about recovering from mental or substance use disorders. Sharing stories is a way to connect with people and inspire others who may be struggling with behavioral health conditions. When you share your recovery journey and how your recovery has impacted those around you, you show people they are not alone. Your story can also demonstrate that treatment works and recovery is possible.

Shared decision-making tools help people in treatment and recovery work together with their providers to make the best plan for their needs and situation. Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy (BRSS TACS) offers tools to support shared decision-making.