Thursday, July 24, 2003

Voucher Program will Benefit Recovery Community
Article at Join Together that is a response to another article published earlier this month - "Bob Curley, in his July 10th article about the President's proposed Access to Recovery program, presents a view of addiction recovery that is centered in treatment. The article presents views that are skeptical of community or faith based paths to recovery, inasmuch as these recovery assets are presented as not conforming to traditional treatment outcome measures. It is as if treatment is the goal of all this activity. As Curley notes, the Senate appropriations committee that recently declined to fund the initial request for funds for this program conceded that 'there are many paths to treatment'. Recovery advocates see treatment as one path to recovery."