Overview
In 2023, Dr. Cathy Sloan at the University of West London organized the Addiction Recovery Arts Network to bring together arts recovery organizations. From Sloan:
““Recovery Arts can be a very effective conduit for expressing and developing recovery identities. They enable the sharing of lived experience either directly, through autobiographical work, or indirectly, through exploring themes relating to addiction, wellbeing and recovery. The creative and aesthetic elements of these activities enable people affected by addiction to build social confidence and to demonstrate their potential as artists, which disrupts unhelpful stereotypes.””