Opportunities for Enhancing Access and Efficacy of Peer Sponsorship in Substance Use Disorder Recovery

Jeremy Heyer; Zachary Schmitt; Lynn Dombrowski; Svetlana Yarosh

doi:10.1145/3313831.3376241

Opportunities for Enhancing Access and Efficacy of Peer Sponsorship in Substance Use Disorder Recovery

Jeremy Heyer, Zachary Schmitt, Lynn Dombrowski, Svetlana Yarosh

Computer Science and Engineering

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Abstract

Substance use disorders (SUDs) are characterized by an inability to decrease a substance use (e.g., alcohol or opioids) despite negative repercussions. SUDs are clinically diagnosable, hazardous, and considered a public health issue. Sponsorship, a specialized type of peer mentorship, is vital in the recovery process and originates from 12-step fellowship programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA). To investigate sponsorship relationship practices and to identify design opportunities for digitally-mediated peer support, we conducted 27 in-depth interviews with members of AA and NA. We identified five key sponsorship relationship practices relevant for designing social computing tools to support sponsorship and recovery: 1) assessing dyadic compatibility, 2) managing sponsorship with or without technology, 3) establishing boundaries, 4) building a peer support network, and 5) managing anonymity. We identify social computing and digitally-mediated design opportunities and implications.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450367080
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376241
State	Published - Apr 21 2020
Event	2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020 - Honolulu, United States Duration: Apr 25 2020 → Apr 30 2020

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Conference	2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	Honolulu
Period	4/25/20 → 4/30/20

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Funding Information:
We thank participants for their time and willingness to share their experiences. We also thank Claire Yang, Tab Zhang, and Tianhao Liu for their help with interviews and members of the GroupLens labs for manuscript edits. This work was partially funded by NSF 1651575.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 ACM.

Keywords

12-step fellowships
addiction
peer health support
recovery
substance use disorders
technology for substance use

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Heyer, J., Schmitt, Z., Dombrowski, L., & Yarosh, S. (2020). Opportunities for Enhancing Access and Efficacy of Peer Sponsorship in Substance Use Disorder Recovery. In CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 3376241 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376241

Opportunities for Enhancing Access and Efficacy of Peer Sponsorship in Substance Use Disorder Recovery. / Heyer, Jeremy; Schmitt, Zachary; Dombrowski, Lynn et al.
CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. 3376241 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Heyer, J, Schmitt, Z, Dombrowski, L & Yarosh, S 2020, Opportunities for Enhancing Access and Efficacy of Peer Sponsorship in Substance Use Disorder Recovery. in CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 3376241, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery, 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020, Honolulu, United States, 4/25/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376241

Heyer J, Schmitt Z, Dombrowski L, Yarosh S. Opportunities for Enhancing Access and Efficacy of Peer Sponsorship in Substance Use Disorder Recovery. In CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery. 2020. 3376241. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/3313831.3376241

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