Collegiate Recovery Program (CRP), University of Birmingham, Institute for Mental Health, 52 Pritchatts Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B152TT, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
J Subst Use Addict Treat. 2023 Mar;146:208949. doi: 10.1016/j.josat.2022.208949. Epub 2023 Jan 6.
Ongoing recovery from addiction often happens outside of formal "treatment" settings. Collegiate recovery programs (CRPs) have existed in higher education institutions in the United States since the 1980s as part of vital "recovery ready ecosystems" (Ashford et al., 2020) for those with educational aspirations. Aspiration often begins with inspiration and Europeans are now beginning their own journeys with CRPs. In this narrative piece, I use my own lived experience of addiction and recovery through a life course that highlights mechanisms of change that are entwined with academia. This life course narrative maps well on to extant literature on recovery capital and illuminates some of the stigma-based boundaries that still stand in the way of progress in this field. The hope is that this narrative piece will inspire aspirations for both individuals and organizations thinking about setting up CRPs in Europe, and further a field, and also inspire people in recovery to consider education as an aspiration for their continued growth and healing.
成瘾的持续康复通常发生在正式的“治疗”环境之外。自 20 世纪 80 年代以来，美国的高等教育机构中就存在着大学康复计划（CRPs），作为那些有教育抱负的人的重要“康复预备生态系统”（Ashford 等人，2020 年）的一部分。抱负通常始于灵感，现在欧洲人也开始了自己的 CRP 之旅。在这篇叙述性文章中，我用自己通过一生的经历来讲述成瘾和康复的经历，其中强调了与学术交织在一起的变革机制。这个人生历程的叙述与现有的关于康复资本的文献很好地吻合，并阐明了在这一领域仍存在的一些基于污名的障碍。希望这篇叙述性文章能够激发个人和考虑在欧洲设立 CRP 的组织的抱负，并进一步推动这一领域的发展，并激励康复中的人们将教育视为他们持续成长和康复的一个目标。
