SMART Recovery USA

08/06/2025

More action shots from our recent training with the excellent folks at Diversion Hub in Oklahoma City! SMART continues to spread its self-empowering principles and tools across the land!

08/04/2025

Recent SMART Recovery training in action in Oklahoma City! From L-R is Michael Holder, Treatment Court Program Navigator with Diversion Hub, Eboni Jewel Sears from SMART, and Gus Curran, SMART's Senior Director of Training and Program Development.

08/04/2025

SMART provides science-based tools to launch you into action! We have handbooks in our shop, meetings of all kind, and tons of resources at www.smartrecovery.org

07/30/2025

A lapse in recovery can be a stressful experience. This guest blog post by Amit, a SMART Facilitator in NYC, offers a lens for both understanding the lapse and building recovery momentum moving forward: https://smartrecovery.org/blog/back-to-basics-a-facilitators-honest-check-in

A lapse in addiction recovery is not a reason to give up.

07/28/2025

Many participants say that joining a SMART Recovery group was a great decision on their journey to change. Find a meeting here: https://meetings.smartrecovery.org

07/24/2025

SMART continues to grow across the U.S. and Canada! Here are locations for new 4-Point/standard meetings: Akron, OH; Johnson City, TN; Morgantown, WV; Sparks, NV; Bogue, KS; Woodbury, MN; Phoenix, AZ; Idaho Falls, ID; Battle Creek, MI; Marinette, WI; Edison, NJ; Danville, IL; Naperville, IL; Salt Lake City, UT; Blue Island, IL; Lincoln, NE; Ithaca, NY; Flemingsburg, KY; Richmond, VA; and Geneva, NE.

New locations for Family & Friends include: Corfu, NY; Charlotte, NC; and Flemingsburg, KY.

Simply put city/state or province into our meeting finder: https://meetings.smartrecovery.org/

07/21/2025

Jasmine Hilbert, our Director of National Outreach, showing up at the Peer Recovery Summit 2025 in Columbus! Stop by and say hello!

07/21/2025

A crisp and cogent guest blog post by SMART Facilitator Kelly Scullin asks us to consider the swinging of pendulums... https://smartrecovery.org/blog/pendulums-inertia-and-the-slightly-inconvenient-truth-about-change

Change doesn't have to be all at once. The important thing is to get the process started.

07/16/2025

In the latest SMART Podcast, we talk with Heather Clinger and Laura Zeppieri from about their work across the State of Connecticut and beyond. Their passion for helping all individuals achieve healthier and positive lives is contagious!

is a nonprofit agency that provides comprehensive human services across the state of Connecticut. Their vision is, "All people will have the opportunity to grow, change, and live healthier, productive lives." In this podcast we have a conversation with two representatives of Wheeler initiatives: Hea...

07/15/2025

Our good friend Evan Done from the nonprofit USARA - Utah Support Advocates for Recovery Awareness is presenting a workshop on the impact of stigma in conjunction with the Opioid Response Network. It's free and takes place on Zoom next Wednesday 7/23. Find out more and register here: https://facesandvoicesofrecovery.org/event/orn-the-impact-of-stigma-on-access-to-services/

The Impact of Stigma on Access to Services examines how stigma—public, self, and structural—creates real barriers for people with substance use disorders in accessing care and recovery support. Participants will...

07/10/2025

Join the courageous on the road to self-empowered recovery!

07/07/2025

Negative thinking can be based on false beliefs. SMART Facilitator Rick Kuplinski takes us through how we can Dispute Unhelpful Beliefs in this guest blog post. https://smartrecovery.org/blog/do-i-really-deserve-this-disputing-unhelpful-beliefs

SMART tools include worksheets to dispute unhelpful beliefs.