Privacy is a promise
Do not share another participant’s story, identity, screenshot, attendance, contact information, or recovery details outside the permitted setting.
Belonging with boundaries
Community Standards
A recovery community becomes safe through repeated behavior: privacy, respect, consent, honest repair, clear moderation, and quick routing when a concern exceeds the community’s scope.
Consent before advice or contact
Ask before giving feedback, contacting someone outside the group, adding them online, sharing resources, or involving another support.
Respect without humiliation
No slurs, threats, harassment, ridicule, intimidation, public shaming, or weaponizing a person’s history.
Recovery choice
Do not shame medication, mutual-aid choice, faith, treatment decisions, harm-reduction goals, or pathways different from your own.
No predatory or financial behavior
No romantic/sexual pursuit in protected spaces, borrowing or lending money, soliciting, selling, gambling, exploiting vulnerability, or pressuring disclosure.
No drug sourcing or unsafe instruction
No arranging substances, trading controlled medication, glorifying use, sharing methods that increase harm, or encouraging someone to ignore qualified medical advice.
No crisis dumping into public spaces
Urgent safety concerns are routed to staff, 988, 911, or the active safety pathway—not left for an unmonitored group chat to manage.
Repair is expected
When harm occurs, stop the behavior, listen, accept boundaries, follow moderation direction, and complete an appropriate repair or re-entry process.
Digital participation
- Do not record sessions or take screenshots unless an authorized process explicitly permits it.
- Use approved platforms and channels; personal social-media connection is never required.
- Do not post urgent clinical or safety information in an unmonitored channel.
- Moderators may pause, remove, preserve, or escalate content to protect safety and policy.
- Private messages remain subject to boundaries, consent, and anti-harassment standards.
Moderation ladder
- Immediate stop or redirection when behavior becomes unsafe.
- Private coaching and boundary clarification when appropriate.
- Documented warning, repair plan, or temporary limitation.
- Supervisory review and safety/clinical escalation when needed.
- Removal or referral to another setting when risk or repeated conduct cannot be safely managed.
Emergency response is not a punishment. Safety and dignity require clear routing.
Emergency routing:
Call 911 for immediate danger. Call or text 988 for suicide or emotional crisis support in the United States. Follow provider or program emergency instructions when enrolled in an active service.