Ongoing Recovery Support and Peer Networks: A Preliminary Investigation of Recovery Champions and Their Peers

Journal of Groups in Addiction and Recovery

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 185-199

  van Melick, Marleen ^a,b   McCartney, David ^b   Best, David ^c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Lothians and Edinburgh Abstinence Program   (United Kingdom)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

peer networks; recovery champions; social supports

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879190958     PISSN: 1556035X     EISSN: 15560368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1556035X.2013.785211     Document Type: Article

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