This research report focuses on lay community healthcare workers' perspectives on the
origins and dynamics of substance addiction and recovery. Individual, semi-structured …

Substance abuse is a rising global problem, associated with medical, psychiatric, family,
occupational, legal, political, financial, and spiritual problems. Recovery is an important area …

Substance abuse is a rising global health and social problem that is associated with serious
medical, psychiatric, family, occupational, legal, financial and spiritual problems. While …

Substance abuse and dependence is a prominent and demanding social problem emerging
in the workplace. This challenge has brought about multiple negative costly effects and …

Dominant understandings of recovery emphasise personal responsibility for initiating and
sustaining changes in peoples' subjectivities and relationships to alcohol and other drugs …

Despite the destructive scourge of substance use disorders (SUDs) increasing in the
workplace, both locally and globally, those with SUD remain reluctant to seek, or comply …

This dissertation contributes to the understanding of the early recovery experience of
individuals recovering from alcohol and/or drug addiction by examining the narratives of …

The study aims to explore how substance users from poor and working-class backgrounds
in the Western Cape, South Africa, understand the development of their patterns of …

Abstract Most of New Zealand prisoners have been diagnosed with either a mental health or
substance use disorder within their lifetime. This presents complex challenges in how to …

This thesis entails a qualitative study into the life-stories of addicted women with a special
focus on the place they accord to trauma in their lives. This hopes to shed Light on the …