What I Need From Substance Use Care
Clarify treatment preferences and barriers so care can address the person's actual needs.
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Substance use disorders
Review the fit of substance-use care with personal goals, health needs, preferences, and practical access.
Directly supported by recovery-care profiles. The starter prepares an individualized care discussion rather than diagnosing a substance use disorder or choosing treatment.
A STARTING POINT
What I Need From Substance Use Care
A treatment plan is more useful when its purpose, expectations, and practical demands are clear. You may be starting care, returning after a gap, or questioning its fit. Use this page to identify what you want understood and what makes participation difficult.
Read resources for this topic
These complete reading pages are part of the larger topic collection.
Recovery Can Include More Than One Kind of Support
Identify a personally meaningful recovery priority and the kind of help it needs.
The Missed Bus: A Recovery Planning Example
See how a fictional person adjusts a plan when practical barriers interfere.
My Difficult-Moment Support Map
Connect an early signal with one available action and a backup source of support.
Ask for the Kind of Support You Need
Practice a specific support request while leaving room for limits and alternatives.
Make One Support Easier to Reach
Remove one practical obstacle to a support option you have chosen.
Review Without Starting Over
Identify what a recent attempt revealed and choose an adjusted support step.
Facilitator Notes: Recovery Goals and Access
Use the pack to support choice and practical planning within an appropriate care relationship.
Building My Recovery Support Team
Match different recovery needs with specific people, services, and requests.
Recovery Can Include Different Supports
Explain recovery options while keeping personal choice and medical safety visible.
Explore practical situations
Each situation offers ten shared activity frameworks in the full library.