In this published article by Dr. Stauffer, the author suggests that recovery communities would be better served by being independent from local governments and treatment systems. 

In this way, we allow the community to engage in its own healing, a powerful dynamic of community and people in need rather than being treated as a "unit of care provided by an outside entity"

https://recoveryreview.blog/2022/07/13/are-we-serving-as-good-stewards-in-our-collective-responsibility-to-the-recovery-community/