Center for Young Adult Addiction and Recovery
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About Recovery Science Research
Studies of recovery have long been an offshoot of addiction science, focused largely on pathology and symptomology. Addiction science focuses on how people get sick. Instead, the Center for Young Adult Addiction and Recovery has partnered with a variety of colleagues and stakeholders in order to explore how people get well. This standalone, interdisciplinary, evidence-driven field of recovery science is a break away from traditional addiction science.
The Recovery Informed Paradigm
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Center for Young Adult Addiction and Recovery Publications
Studies of recovery have long been an offshoot of addiction science, focused largely on pathology and symptomology. Addiction science focuses on how people get sick. Instead, the Center for Young Adult Addiction and Recovery has partnered with a variety of colleagues and stakeholders in order to explore how people get well. This standalone, interdisciplinary, evidence-driven field of recovery science is a break away from traditional addiction science.
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Collegiate Recovery Programs
Achieving a 15% Relapse Rate: A Review of Collegiate Recovery and Physician Health Programs. Brown & Bohler (2018).
Alumni Characteristics of Collegiate Recovery Programs: A National Survey. Brown, Ashford, Figley, Courson, Curtis, & Kimball (2018).
Collegiate Recovery Programs and Disordered Eating: Exploring Sub-Clinical Behaviors Among Students in Recovery. Ashford, Wheeler, & Brown (2018).
Collegiate Recovery Programs: The Integrated Behavioral Health Model. Ashford, Brown, & Curtis (2018).
Collegiate Recovery Students and Programs: Literature Review from 1988-2017. Brown, Ashford, Heller, Whitney, & Kimball (2018).
What We Know About Students in Recovery: A Meta-Synthesis of Collegiate Recovery Programs, 2000-2017. Ashford, Brown, Eisenhart, Heller, & Curtis (2018).
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Recovery Science and Recovery-Informed Theory
Defining and Operationalizing the Phenomena of Recovery: A Working Definition from the Recovery Science Research Collaborative. Ashford, Brown, Brown, Callis, Cleveland, Eisenhart, Groover, Hayes, Johnston, Kimball, Manteuffeul, McDaniel, Montgomery, Phillips, Polacek, Statman, & Whitney (2019).
Interdisciplinary Expansions: Applying Recovery-Informed Theory to Interdisciplinary Areas of Recovery Science Research. McDaniel, Brown, Heller, Johnston, Bergman, Bohler, Brown, Eisenhart, Finch, Harper, Hart, Kimball, Rabolt, Speciale, Whitney, & Ashford (2019).
Recovery-Informed Theory: Situating the Subjective in the Science of Substance Use Disorder Recovery. Brown & Ashford (2019).
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Recovery Support Services and Treatment
A Mixed-Methods Exploration of the Role and Impact of Stigma and Advocacy on Substance Use Disorder Recovery. Ashford, Brown, Canode, McDaniel, & Curtis (2019).
Bridging the Gaps: Intergenerational Findings from the Substance Use Disorder and Recovery Field. Ashford & Brown (2017).
Building Recovery Ready Communities: The Recovery Ready Ecosystem Model and Community Framework. Ashford, Brown, Ryding, & Curtis (2019).
Characterizing Participation and Perceived Engagement Benefits in an Integrated Digital Behavioral Health Recovery Community for Women: A Cross-Sectional Survey. Curtis, Bergman, Brown, McDaniel, Harper, Eisenhart, Hufnagel, Heller, & Ashford (2019).
Developing the Spirituality in Recovery Framework: The Function of Spirituality in 12-Step Substance Use Disorder Recovery. Brown, McDaniel, Austin, & Ashford (2019).
Peer-Delivered Harm Reduction and Recovery Support Services: Initial Evaluation from a Hybrid Recovery Community Drop-in Center and Syringe Exchange Program. Ashford, Curtis, & Brown (2018).
Reducing Harm and Promoting Recovery Through Community-Based Mutual Aid: Characterizing Those Who Engage in a Hybrid Peer Recovery Community Organization. Ashford, Brown, Dorney, McConnell, Kunzelman, McDaniel, & Curtis (2019).
Responding to the Opioid and Overdose Crisis with Innovative Services: The Recovery Community Center Office-Based Opioid Treatment (RCC-OBOT) Model. Ashford, Brown, McDaniel, Neasbitt, Sobora, Riley, Weintstein, Laxton, Kunzelman, Kampman, & Curtis (2019).
Systemic Barriers in Substance Use Disorder Treatment: A Prospective Qualitative Study of Professionals in the Field. Ashford, Brown, & Curtis (2018).
The Stories We Tell: Gender-Based Variances in Recovery Narratives (Master's Thesis). McDaniel (2021).
Utilization of Peer-Based Substance Use Disorder and Recovery Interventions in Rural Emergency Departments: Patient Characteristics and Exploratory Analysis. Ashford, Meeks, Curtis, & Brown (2019).
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Language and Stigma
“Abusing Addiction”: Our Language Still Isn’t Good Enough. Ashford, Brown, & Curtis (2018).
Biased Labels: An Experimental Study of Language and Stigma Among Individuals in Recovery and Health Professionals. Ashford, Brown, McDaniel, & Curtis (2019).
Dynamic Labeling Discernment: Contextual Importance of Self-Identifiers for Individuals in Recovery. Brown, McDaniel, Johnson, & Ashford (2019).
Expanding Language Choices to Reduce Stigma: A Delphi Study of Positive and Negative Terms in Substance Use and Recovery. Ashford, Brown, & Curtis (2019).
Recovery Dialects: A Pilot Study of Stigmatizing and Nonstigmatizing Label Use by Individuals in Recovery from Substance Use Disorders. Ashford, Brown, Ashford, & Curtis (2019).
Substance Use, Recovery, and Linguistics: The Impact of Word Choice on Explicit and Implicit Bias. Ashford, Brown, & Curtis (2018).
The Language of Substance Use and Recovery: Novel Use of the Go/No–Go Association Task to Measure Implicit Bias. Ashford, Brown, & Curtis (2018)
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Collaborations and Current Projects
- On-campus programming for students in recovery
- Prevention for incoming KSU first-year students
- Prevention for KSU athletes
- Prevention for KSU Greek Life
- Prevention for Student Conduct and Academic Integrity
- Interdisciplinary research experiences for undergraduate and graduate research assistants
- Ways and means of recovery assessment at partner treatment facilities
- Characteristics of recovery
- Theoretical constructs of recovery
- Identity and recovery
- Community-based recovery support services
- Narratives of recovery
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Recovery Science Research Collaborative (RSRC)
The Recovery Science Research Collaborative (RSRC) unites researchers and practitioners to advance the science of recovery. The RSRC enables professionals, students and stakeholders from diverse backgrounds to investigate the theoretical underpinnings of recovery science, to assess and develop relevant measures of individual and community recovery, and to disseminate findings across the field of recovery in order to inform policy and practice. This collaborative is hosted by Kennesaw State University and is designed to create a think-tank style environment of true collaboration that empowers recovery researchers and practitioners to move the field forward.
If you are interested in more information about the RSRC, contact Jessica McDaniel at jmcdan33@kennesaw.edu.
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RSRC Meeting Minutes and Collateral Materials
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RSRC Newsletter
The RSRC offers the "Research in Review" newsletter, which is intended to provide a convenient and accessible summary of relevant research, as well as provide space for researchers to discuss their on-going projects and develop collaborative relationships. If you would like to submit content to this newsletter, please email jmcdan33@kennesaw.edu.
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