International and Multicultural Perspectives on Youth Recovery INTRODUCTION

This article introduces the special thematic issue, which includes multiple and diverse perspectives to illustrate how youth treatment and recovery from substance use/dependence/misuse is approached and studied internationally. Although treatment and recovery services are available to and in use by youth across the world, this introduction explains that there is a noticeable gap in literature documenting the continuum of care for this vulnerable population. This introductory piece presents a synopsis of the articles in the issue, which address group treatment and recovery supports internationally and multi-culturally from a youth treatment and recovery lens. The articles offer an integration of international and diverse adolescent recovery supports, including those in Canada, Norway and the United States, and add to the larger body of recovery literature.