Providing Peer Supports and Services for People with Substance Use Disorder: Connecticut’s Community of Addiction Recovery – Playbook

Advocates for people with substance use disorder (SUD) long have pushed for expanding community support services for people entering recovery and maintaining recovery, because the road to recovery is often difficult and uneven. These services are widely seen as key elements to recovery, in conjunction with greater access to addiction treatment, mental health care, and other clinical services. Advocacy groups and people in recovery started opening recovery community centers (RCCs) around the country over the last 20 years to create a hopeful, healing environment led by people with lived experience with addiction, who serve as role models. But the centers often have had to operate on a shoestring, and some lower-income areas of the country with...