Addicts' narratives of recovery from drug use: constructing a non-addict identity

J McIntosh, N McKeganey - Social science & medicine, 2000 - Elsevier
… a non-addict identity for themselves. Following Giddens we identify the process of providing
a narrative of their recovery as one of the mechanisms by which addicts may seek to achieve …

Natural recovery from addiction: some social-psychological processes of untreated recovery

D Waldorf - Journal of Drug Issues, 1983 - journals.sagepub.com
… Six patterns of recovery were discerned and it was concluded that the “maturing out” … addicts
become converts to religious, social or communal causes, some retire (give up the drug but …

Identity and recovery from dependent drug use: The addict's perspective

JMIN McKeganey - Drugs: education, prevention and policy, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
drugs remains shrouded in uncertainty. In this paper we look at the recovery process from the
addict’… which individual drug users themselves provide of the process of `coming off’ illegal …

The Lived Experience of Five Clients in Recovery from Drug Addiction.

O Rotărescu, E Sleath - Social Work Review/Revista de Asistenta …, 2016 - ceeol.com
recovery from drug addiction of a sample of five participants involved with a community‑based
drug … what was successful regarding their recovery from drug addiction. Transcripts were …

The recovery paradigm: A model of hope and change for alcohol and drug addiction

DW Best, DI Lubman - Australian family physician, 2012 - search.informit.org
… make a complete recovery and 40% a ‘social recovery’ (… of the key features of the recovery
process. long term treatments that … and identified five key recovery processes: connectedness, …

Factors influencing recovery from different addictions

A Koski-Jännes, N Turner - Addiction Research, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
… time of recovery was … addiction-related differences appeared in four change factors and
three maintenance factors, thus displaying the differing routes to recovery in different addictions

Identity and recovery.

S Kellogg - Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 1993 - psycnet.apa.org
processes involved in successful recovery from addiction through the lens of identity theory
and examines the identity processes … abusers, and religious drug-treatment programs. …

The natural recovery from opiate addiction: Some preliminary findings

D Waldorf, P Biernacki - Journal of Drug Issues, 1981 - journals.sagepub.com
… Because of the general interest in those addicts who recover without treatment, we will …
The drug use histories of our sample show the median length of addiction wa~ 4.5 years. …

The disease of addiction: Origins, treatment, and recovery

DH Angres, K Bettinardi–Angres - Disease-a-month, 2008 - Elsevier
… that occurs between addicts in the recovery process is an … a safe setting for recovery from
addiction. These expectations are … the motivation and compliance of addicts to seek recovery. …

Integrative recovery: A stage paradigm

G De Leon - Substance Abuse, 1996 - Taylor & Francis
… First, as noted earlier it is drawn from clinical observation and some research on opioide
and other drug addicts who have had some treatment experience in the TC. Second the …