The goals of the Substance Use Treatment and Recovery sub-group are to compile evidence from the extensive research on substance use treatment and recovery. The group aims to gain a better understanding of this experience and how it relates to a wide variety of physical health, mental health, well-being and quality of life outcomes both through intervention/treatment/recovery support services as well as through the phenomenon of ‘natural’ recovery (Granfield & Cloud, 1999).
Proposed reviews should focus on a broad suite of outcomes relevant to health, well-being, and quality of life beyond abstinence from substances, i.e., outcomes indicative of recovery capital generation (Best & Hennessy, 2021; Kelly et al., 2018). Reviews can include any study design, including interventions and treatment research, but we encourage reviews that incorporate non-randomised evidence (e.g., naturalistic or observational studies) as these types of studies are integral to understanding the process of recovery and one’s overall experience of quality of life after formalized treatment given that the recovery process has been shown to extend for many years (Dennis et al., 2007). The reviews must follow Campbell and Cochrane standards, especially as they apply to assessing risk of bias and study quality in non-RCT research.
Co-chairs
Emily A. Hennessy
Recovery Research Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Harvard Medical School, and Associate Director of Biostatistics
ehennessy@mgh.harvard.edu
Noel Vest
Boston University School of Public Health, USA
Editor
Emily A. Hennessy
Recovery Research Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Harvard Medical School, and Associate Director of Biostatistics
Methods Editor
Robert A. Marx
San Jose State University, USA
Associate Editors
Brandon Bergman
Recovery Research Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Harvard Medical School
Charlotte Colman
Ghent University, Belgium
Information Specialist
Leonard Levin
Francis A. Countway Library, Harvard Medical School, USA
Managing Editor
Jennifer Petkovic, Jordi Pardo Pardo, and Lara Maxwell, Bruyère Research Institute, Canada
To contact the sub-group, write to social.welfare@campbellcollaboration.org.