Community recovery resources offer a practical and cost-efficient way to assist alcoholics, addicts and family members to enter and maintain long-term recovery.

The current alcohol and drug treatment system does not have the capacity to meet the long-termrecovery assistance needs required to meet the needs of the many. The treatment system is too heavily invested in short-term treatment and is too little invested in the development of a safe and healthy community recovery promoting environments and activities that are constantly available to support recovery and life style enhancements.

Alcohol and drug treatment programs have been formatted by government and academic institutions into quality "people processing" treatment stations that are now too costly per person assisted to significantly reduce addiction problems.