The contribution of sport and physical activity is vital to a wide range of long-term benefits for the mental and physical health of drug addicts under recovery. Participation in a sport-based program increases the duration of abstinence, improves overall physical health and stamina, and reduces emotional instability as it helps to ease stress and anxiety. Sport and physical activity are also known to provide a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction by helping the addicted person to enhance his or her self-confidence and create a better image of oneself. In addition, sports and physical activity can offer drug addicts under recovery the opportunity to attain a pleasant mental state without having to recourse to the use of drugs, thus eventually embarking on a positive and healthy lifestyle change that is incompatible with substance abuse.

The Reintegration Through Sport Plus (RTS+) project, upscaling the Reintegration Through Sport (RTS) project, aims at utilizing sport as an alternative framework in the addiction recovery process, as of which positive behavioral outcomes can be created, by way of underscoring the relationship between sports participation and positive life skill development of drug addicts under recovery, thereby supporting their social reintegration.