For years, discussions around what we can do to combat alcohol addiction has been going on. While many programs and solutions exist today, funding is often scarce. Given the cost that alcohol addiction has on our society, though, it’s vital that more funding can be accessed so that research, solutions and support can be developed in time. One of the most interesting stories around alcohol addiction at the moment, then, stems from a grant delivered to the University of Buffalo.

The Buffalo institute has been given a grant that reaches close to $184,000 in value. This has been given to them by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and will be used to help come up with a recovery capital that could be used to help change how we treat and combat alcohol addiction and dependency.

Recovery capital has become a major part of the process, with a people-focused approach to treatment being its major benefit. This helps to combat alcohol addiction and could be used to help create a more bespoke treatment plan. At the moment, one critique would be that many addiction programs are one-size-fits-all in that they don’t take into account the lifestyle, social background, physical structure or mental capacity of someone who needs treatment.

This is a major step forward for the treatment of alcohol addicts. By offering a more robust and people-specific approach to the treatment, the hope is that more people will be able to overcome their dependency without having to enroll in formal treatment.

Recovery capital: the long-term solution?

While alcohol recovery is a lifelong battle, having solutions that can help someone make quicker progress is always a benefit. That is why programs like recovery capital that is being developed in Buffalo could play such a role in making a progressive and meaningful change come through.

It’s a challenging process, but with plans like recovery capital we could see a long-term change in how we handle and combat alcohol addiction for the most part.

It’s never an easy topic to broach, but using a treatment plan that involves education, coping mechanisms, useful resources, and emotional support, could play a major role in helping people who need that extra bit of support along the way.

By showing people that recovery is possible in numerous ways, this is likely to become a useful resource for anyone who wants to try and fight back against addiction and overcome it. A major change with recovery capital is that it removes the fallacy that recovery from addiction is all about desire – this removes the need for someone to feel as if they are ‘failing’ in their recovery.

In short, recovery capital being reviewed and eventually used in the battle against alcohol addiction can only be a good thing for the future of many Americans.

 

Citation

http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2020/06/038.html