Disruptive Innovation, Sustainability, and Sharing Best Practice: How to Be Innovative, Sustainable, and Share Learning

To bring innovation to everyone in every service, while this is a laudable vision it can also be fun, according to Hilary Clinton, “Innovation, having fun and giving back, should be the core values for everyone.” Within this chapter we explore innovation, sustainability, and the sharing of best practice within addiction policies and services. We provide current definitions within innovation and we detail and list the top ten innovations expected within healthcare. These include generative Artificial Intelligence and digital health. We explore best practice, sharing learning, and we provide guidelines and examples of global best practice portals that can be accessed for evidence-based programs and guides. We introduce six stages to achieving sustainability in your innovations and how to address broader issues in sustainable addiction services. Finally, we discuss two case studies one detailing the development of a free massive open online course or MOOC and the other detailing innovations supported globally by the World Health Organization.