FAB:RECOVER - Nutritional Repletion During Inpatient Alcohol Recovery
This is an upcoming randomized controlled trial focused on inpatient care during early recovery from alcohol use disorder. The study examines whether targeted nutritional repletion during hospitalization can improve recovery-related outcomes during a critical stabilization period.
WHy AUD Recovery?
Alcohol use disorder affects up to 10% of the U.S. population, making it the most prevalent substance use disorder in the country and a major contributor to morbidity, mortality, and community-level harm. Despite this prevalence, nutritional depletion—an established biological consequence of alcohol use—has rarely been systematically targeted during inpatient recovery.
Nutrition
Nutrition is challenged biologically and behaviorally during active addiction to alcohol. Nutrients that are not well stored in the body suffer first and can cause serious neurological consequences. FAB:Recover is among the first clinical trials to directly test whether addressing nutritional depletion during early recovery can improve biological stability and support recovery outcomes. The study is grounded in the premise that recovery is not only behavioral, but biological—and that setting biological systems up for success may improve the likelihood of sustained recovery.
Person-Centered, Always
This work is explicitly non-moralizing and recovery-oriented. Recovery is possible and people do recover when care pathways are aligned with biology and evidence.