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    Learn how digital screening tools, automated referral systems, and recovery support apps help treatment centers build and retain census.

    Leveraging Digital Tools to Build & Retain Census

    September 4, 2025

    Healthcare providers face an unprecedented crisis. In 2024, 122 million Americans lived in Health Professional Shortage Areas, while HRSA projects a shortage of more than 113,000 addiction counselors in the
    The Connections app backed by peers provide benefits to members, case managers and the financial goals of health plans.

    Health Plan Improves Care with Digital SUD Support Solution

    August 29, 2025

    Case managers and peer support staff working in the health insurance industry assist clients with a wide range of conditions and chronic diseases in navigating the complexities of the healthcare
    Over his life, isolation has fed CG's addiction, but he has found recovery through daily community connection.

    Breaking the Isolation Trap: How CG Stays Connected in Recovery

    August 22, 2025

    As his children got older, CG found himself drawn back to drinking and drugs, habits he’d started as a teenager. He’d taken a bit of a break while his kids
    Mech's outpatient treatment extended into daily virtual support, providing 24/7 recovery reinforcement that led to two years clean.

    Beyond Office Hours: How Digital Tools Extended Mech’s Outpatient Recovery

    August 21, 2025

     Like many people, Mech first experimented with drugs and alcohol as a teenager in high school. From the start, he struggled with moderation, which led to serious addiction issues—cocaine, crack,
    From skeptical newcomer to daily champion: Cici1986's 288+ day journey using the Connections app religiously.

    Extending Inpatient Recovery Through Virtual Support

    August 20, 2025

    Cici1986’s introduction to alcohol began in her teen years, and it didn’t take long before it was a full-blown problem. Heavy drinking in her 20s led to a run-in with
    After 14 years of drug use threatened her family, Healer found recovery. When tragedy struck, Connections kept her strong in sobriety.

    When Job Loss and Death Hit, Connections Prevented Return to Use

    August 20, 2025

    Fourteen years of drug use had turned Healer’s world inside-out. She’d gone through a divorce, and Child Protective Services was threatening to take her children. An intensive outpatient program was
    A grandmother's journey from 14 years of hidden meth addiction to daily recovery check-ins that she says saved her life.

    From Hidden Addiction to Daily Check-Ins: Supporting MemawS’s Recovery Journey

    August 20, 2025

    For years, MemawS and her husband ran a successful small business and spent quality time with her children and grandchildren. But the couple had a secret they’d successfully hidden from

    Voices of Recovery: How Genuine Engagement Drives Clinical Outcomes

    August 18, 2025

    At CHESS Health, we know that lasting recovery doesn’t just change lives—it transforms them. Our digital recovery solutions support and simplify the work of health plans, healthcare providers, and public
    Digital Tools Reduce Costs and Protect Revenue through improved retention

    SUD Treatment Retention: How Digital Tools Reduce Costs and Protect Revenue

    July 20, 2025

    Poor substance use disorder (SUD) treatment retention creates dual financial pressures across the healthcare ecosystem. For treatment providers, it poses a threat to revenue sustainability. For health plans, public health,
    Rethinking Addiction: Why Digital Technology is Essential to Solving America's $740 Billion Crisis

    Rethinking Addiction: Why Digital Technology is Essential to Solving America’s $740 Billion Crisis

    July 14, 2025

    Addictions of all types affect millions of people across the United States. No demographic is spared, leaving a devastating impact on individuals, families, and communities. Addiction is extremely common, but
    Cutting Through the Noise: A Strategic Guide to Selecting Digital SUD Solutions That Actually Work

    Cutting Through the Noise: A Strategic Guide to Selecting Digital SUD Solutions That Actually Work

    July 13, 2025

    Substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, like many areas of healthcare, is experiencing rapid growth in the number of vendors offering digital technology solutions to support people in recovery and the
    Digital interventions demonstrated reductions in heavy drinking days and stronger outcomes in published study.

    Mobile App Boosts Effectiveness of Continuing Recovery Care, Study Shows

    July 9, 2025

    A 2022 research study reveals that smartphone apps designed to provide continuing care to people recovering from alcohol use disorder (AUD), used independently or alongside telephone monitoring and counseling, can