SAMHSA’s Road to Recovery Update

The Road to Recovery Update keeps you informed about activities leading up to National Alcohol & Drug Addiction Recovery Month (Recovery Month) in September. Feel free to forward this information to friends and colleagues, include it in newsletters or listservs, or link to it from your Web site.

Today’s Webcast
Treatment 101: Recovery Today

Tune in and join host, Ivette Torres, Associate Director for Consumer Affairs, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), as the Road to Recovery April Webcast examines the current state of addiction treatment and recent advancements in the field, considers barriers to treatment and how to overcome them, and discusses strategies for making addiction treatment more accessible by establishing public health framework-based addiction treatment services for both the person suffering from the disease and members of the person's family.

See the full Webcast on the Recovery Month Web site.

April Ask the Expert: Wilson Compton, M.D., M.P.E., Director, Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse

Get answers to your questions about the topics covered in the April Road to Recovery Series: “Treatment 101: Recovery Today.”

Contact us to submit your questions to this month’s expert, Wilson M. Compton, M.D., M.P.E., Director, Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), by April 15, 2009. Answers from Dr. Compton will be posted in early May. Contact information for questions will be kept confidential.

New 20th Anniversary Banners Available, Promote Recovery Month on your Web Site

The 2009 banners for our 20th Anniversary: Join the Voices for Recovery: Together We Learn, Together We Heal are now posted on our Web site.

Low- and high-resolution banners are available for download and use on your Web sites, as well as t-shirts and banners, among other items. Please place the banner on your Web site to link to http://www.recoverymonth.gov/ and bookmark the site on computers in your organization, school, or library to help us reach more people. If you had the previous year’s Recovery Month banner on your site, please update the banner with the 20th Anniversary banners provided.

Recovery Month Wants To Post Your Press Releases, News, Studies, and Reports, and Other Information

Recovery Month is interested in posting your news, press releases, studies, reports, calls for releases, and other information. If you have materials related to substance use disorders, treatment, and recovery, please send them to recoverymonth@samhsa.gov.

In the last 2 weeks, 30 events have been posted to the Web site–post yours today!

The Recovery Month observance is not limited to September. Events can be held all year long to increase the education and understanding of addiction, treatment, and recovery issues. Start planning your events, proclamations, and observance, and post them to http://www.recoverymonth.gov.

Help us to continue to grow in our efforts to improve the lives of individuals and their families affected by alcohol and drug use disorders!

About Recovery Month

National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month, celebrating 20 years of observance in 2009, is an initiative of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. For more information about Recovery Month, visit http://www.recoverymonth.gov.