Substance Use Peer Workers
NIH and SAMHSA recognize peer workers as important because lived experience enables them to promote recovery. Substance use peer workers are helping professionals with lived or living experience of substance use and recovery. Substance use…
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NIH and SAMHSA recognize peer workers as important because lived experience enables them to promote recovery. Substance use peer workers are helping professionals with lived or living experience of substance use and recovery. Substance use peer workers provide non-clinical services including navigation, resource linkage, psychosocial support, outreach, and overdose reversal.