Blue Opal Games

“Journey to Recovery is an excellent collaborative opportunity for all people engaged in the recovery space – from the patient to the providers and care support team. The developers captured multilevel system complexities that can make or break successful recovery. We ran the game with my research team which included people with lived methadone treatment experience, prescribers, social workers, and researchers. It was a great team development opportunity and led to important conversations about what we all can do to make things better in our spheres of influence.”

— Beth Meyerson, PhD, Beverly Benson McCord Endowed Chair of Nursing, The University of Arizona College of Nursing

“I was blown away when I got the chance to pilot test Journey to Recovery! We immediately implemented the game in our foundational interprofessional education curriculum at The University of Texas at Austin, and it had a profound impact on students and faculty.”

— Lucas Hill, PharmD, FCCP, Research Scientist and Adjunct Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy

“Journey to Recovery is an innovative way to communicate public health information about substance use. For the past year, I have had the pleasure of using this game in our undergraduate public health course, Drugs & Society. Students connect with Jake and the interprofessional care team with compassion and empathy. Through Journey to Recovery, students gain a deeper understanding of the complexity and simplicity of change processes that are dependent on multilayered structures.”

— Bridget Murphy, DBH, Med, Assistant Research Professor, The University of Arizona Zuckerman College of Public Health