Heyer, JeremySchmitt, ZacharyDombrowski, LynnYarosh, Svetlana2020-08-202020-08-202020-04Heyer, J., Schmitt, Z., Dombrowski, L., & Yarosh, S. (2020). Opportunities for Enhancing Access and Efficacy of Peer Sponsorship in Substance Use Disorder Recovery. Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376241https://hdl.handle.net/1805/23659Substance 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.enPublisher Policysubstance use disordersaddictionrecoveryArticle