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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Life Beyond Treatment: Focusing on Recovery
Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care

The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD), the State Associations of Addiction Services (SAAS), and Faces & Voices of Recovery (Faces & Voices) are embarking on a joint project that will educate state legislators and legislative staff about recovery-oriented systems of care (ROSC) for people with addiction. There are two overarching goals:

  1. to significantly raise the level of awareness and knowledge among legislators and legislative staff regarding recovery-oriented systems of care; and
  2. to provide the necessary information for state legislators to examine the policy options that will be required and to begin to take the policy actions necessary to use a recovery-oriented systems of care approach.
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