Addiction Recovery Communities as Indigenous Cultures: Implications for Professional and Scientific Collaborations

Abstract

This commentary conceptualizes recovery mutual aid organizations and other grassroots, nonprofessional recovery support institutions as indigenous cultures; identifies ethical issues that can arise in professional and scientific collaboration with such cultures; and provides a checklist that can guide professional and scientific collaborations with grassroots recovery support organizations.

KEYWORDS:

• Experiential knowledge
• indigenous intelligence
• recovery communities
• recovery mutual aid

Notes

Support for this work was provided by the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services.