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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Recovery Symposium
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

On May 2, 2008, representatives from the recovery community, public and private addiction treatment providers, governmental agencies and others gathered in Philadelphia for a Recovery Symposium called Aligning Concepts, Practice and Contexts to Promote Long-Term Recovery: An Action Plan. Here’s the agenda for the day. The entire Symposium was videotaped. Coming soon! will be a video that you can download and watch the entire day’s proceedings.

Below are some of the materials that were distributed to attendees:

  1. Building a Science of Recovery: Pre-Symposium Brief
    (Alexandre B. Laudet, PhD)

  2. Recovery Literature Bibliography
    (Health Systems Research)

  3. National Summit on Recovery: Conference Report
    (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration/Center for Substance Abuse Treatment)

  4. What is Recovery? A Working Definition from the Betty Ford Institute
    (Betty Ford Consensus Panel)

  5. What does recovery mean to you? Lessons from the recovery experience for research and practice
    (Alexandre B. Laudet, )
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