Dread of Being Stigmatized
Holistic Dignity
The Effects of Stigma
on Healthy Recovery
Health is the first of the four broad areas in SAMHSA’s Recovery Support Strategic Initiative (Health, Home, Purpose, and Community). While SAMHSA is right to be concerned that the Recovering Peer needs to abstain from substance use first in order to improve the prospect of successful recovery, there is more to Health than just abstinence