The science of addiction recovery is advancing, bringing greater precision to how recovery is conceptualised, measured and explained, and strengthening efforts to reduce persistent harms. Achieving this requires sustained investment in the scientific, institutional and infrastructural capacity needed to advance recovery research and practice.

Building on the authors' important contribution, I set out to extend their argument by focusing more explicitly on the scientific, institutional and infrastructural systemic capital required to advance the study of recovery. This requires a reorientation of research priorities and infrastructures.