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New Findings In Recovery Science: Implications for Public Health and Clinical Practice

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During the past 50 years a great deal has been learned about the etiology, epidemiology, typology, and phenomenology of addiction that has uncovered its complex causes, natural history, and highly variable presentation and clinical course. These novel findings have given rise to a number of clinical paradigm shifts and increased awareness of the many pathways through and out of addiction and into remission and long-term recovery. Also, while the concept of addiction “recovery” has been culturally commonplace during this period, reflecting a general process of salubrious change as individuals achieve more stable remission, in more recent years researchers have begun systematically to delineate formal operational definitions of the recovery construct to investigate and unravel its mobilizers, active ingredients, and variable outcomes. This presentation will review briefly the new knowledge gained during the past 50 years and describe how this has led to a new addiction recovery science that promises to better inform the nature and scope of the type of clinical and public health infrastructure needed to address it.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Classify three empirically-supported recovery supports services shown to enhance remission rates and its duration.

  • Relate the major biobehavioral vulnerabilities that increase risk of relapse and addiction recurrence.

  • Identify recovery support services shown to extend the benefits of formal treatment.

  • Describe three major psychosocial mechanisms of behavior change shown to convey the benefits of treatment and recovery support services.

  • Delineate the typical timeline from onset to sustained and stable remission from addiction.

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This course is fiscally sponsored by Exchange Events. There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
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John F. Kelly, Ph.D.

Dr. Kelly is the Elizabeth R. Spallin Professor of Psychiatry in Addiction Medicine at Harvard Medical School – the first endowed professor in addiction medicine at Harvard. He is also the Founder and Director of the Recovery Research Institute at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Associate Director of the Center for Addiction Medicine (CAM) at MGH.

Dr. Kelly is a former President of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Society of Addiction Psychology, a founding member and inaugural President of the American Board of Addiction Psychology, a Fellow of the APA, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology. He has served as a consultant to U.S. federal agencies and non-federal institutions, as well as foreign governments, the United Nations and the World Health Organization.

Dr. Kelly has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, reviews, chapters, and books in the field of addiction medicine, and was an author on the U.S. Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health. He has won numerous state, national, and international lifetime achievements and distinguished scientist awards for his work.

His clinical and research endeavors have focused on addiction treatment and the recovery process, mechanisms of behavior change, and reducing stigma and discrimination among individuals suffering from addiction.

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