Joseph Gerstein writes: “After a successful pilot of the SMART Recovery Program at Danbury Federal Correctional Institute for Women in 1995, I was asked to train 200 federal prison system treatment personnel as SMART Recovery facilitators in 1998. I then obtained a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to create a SMART Correctional Version: InsideOut. This is now being used in 200 prisons and jails globally. A condensed version is being introduced into 250 sober homes and reentry residences under grants from Health Resources and Services Administration and Elevance Health. As a volunteer, I have facilitated almost 800 SMART Recovery meetings in prisons and jails. I presented information about the remarkable efficacy of this program at the request of the director and leadership staff of NIDA. One of the parolees who has benefited from it was subsequently invited as keynote speaker at the NIH/NIDA annual awards ceremony in February.”
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