President Biden has proclaimed September 2022 as National Recovery Month.
This National Recovery Month, we thank peer recovery support professionals, counselors, addiction specialists, first responders, scientists, family members, and everyone who works tirelessly to help our fellow Americans recover from substance use disorder. We offer strength to our loved ones at every step of their recovery process. And we rededicate ourselves to protecting our families and communities so all Americans can enjoy health and happiness.
-President Biden-
Read the full proclamation here.
Family Recovery Emphasized During Recovery Month
Every member of the family is impacted when a loved one is struggling with addiction. And each family member – regardless of age or gender – deserves to enjoy the gifts of recovery. September is a time to celebrate that families can – and do – recover together, when everyone has the opportunity to receive the support and services that can help them heal.
Last year, collectively, the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Children’s Hospital Association, declared a National Emergency in Child and Adolescent Mental Health: “We are caring for young people with soaring rates of depression, anxiety, trauma, loneliness, and suicidality that will have lasting impacts on them, their families, and their communities. We must identify strategies to meet these challenges through innovation and action, using state, local and national approaches to improve the access to and quality of care across the continuum of mental health promotion, prevention, and treatment.” Kids and teens impacted by parental addiction are exceptionally vulnerable, and creating programs to help nurture resiliency is more important now than ever before.
During Recovery Month, NACoA is emphasizing via social media that every person, in every family, in every community can recover with support. Join NACoA by sharing this information, and help raise awareness for the millions of family members impacted by addiction that healing is possible and by making information available to them. It is with this awareness and information that families can, and will, recover from the impact of addiction of loved ones in their lives.
Learn more about the changes to the campaign by reading the blog posted by NAADAC (the Association for Addiction Professionals) on National Recovery Month
