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SAMHSA's Definition and Guiding Principles of Recovery: Answering the Call for Feedback

(1/1/2013)

SAMHSA's Blog Update

As part of SAMHSA's efforts to provide stakeholders the opportunity to comment on the working definition of recovery and related guiding principles, several public feedback forums were run during the period August 12- 26, 2011. In addition to the forums, feedback was also submitted via the comments on the Recovery Defined - Give Us Your Feedback blog post. The response to our request for feedback was tremendous and clearly demonstrated the field's interest and concern on this important issue. The blog post received 259 comments.

Read more on SAMHSA's Definition of Recovery: http://blog.samhsa.gov/2011/12/22/samhsa%E2%80%99s-definition-and-guiding-principles-of-recovery-%E2%80%93-answering-the-call-for-feedback/


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