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Key Question #6
What Are Recovery Support Services?

Recovery support services, including peer-to-peer services, are designed to help individuals initiate and sustain their recovery from addictive disorders and enhance their overall quality of life. Common examples of recovery support services include the following: support groups, recovery circles and coaching, peer mentoring, case management, training in life skills, health and wellness, education and career planning, spiritual support, services for families members of people in recovery, transportation and housing supports. These recovery support services have been identified in the professional and popular literature as enhancing people’s efforts to make lifestyle changes, ssuch as by aiding the discontinuing of abuse of alcohol and drugs and helping to prevent relapse and promote sustained recovery from addiction.¹