The Authors’ Own Words: Addressing substance use disorder in primary care: The role, integration, and impact of recovery coaches

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Addressing substance use disorder in primary care: The role, integration, and impact of recovery coaches

Helen E. Jack, BA; Devin Oller, MD; John Kelly, PhD; Jessica F. Magidson, PhD; & Sarah E. Wakeman, MD

Substance Abuse Vol. 39, Iss. 3, 2018

“This paper uses qualitative interviews with recovery coaches and patients to define the role of recovery coaches, an emerging workforce in addiction treatment that has great potential to help expand access to substance use disorder treatment in primary care. It highlights the components of the recovery coach role and the benefits and challenges of incorporating recovery coaches into the interdisciplinary primary care team. This study is one of few to examine recovery coaches and the first to use patient and coach perspectives to understand the recovery coach role.”