Self-Help Group

The National Institute on Drug Abuse states that self-help groups, “so long as they do not discourage participants from taking medications, can be particularly helpful during recovery” from opioid addiction.

A guided self-help intervention meaningfully reduced psychological distress among a group of refugees and may thus provide individuals in low-resource humanitarian settings with a first-line strategy for mental health support, according to results of a cluster randomized trial published in The Lancet Global Health.