Alcohol-related problems in the disability perspective. A summary of the consensus of the WHO group of investigators on criteria for identifying and classifying disabilities related to alcohol consumption.

Edwards, Geoffrey; Gross, Michelle M.; Keller, Mark P.; Moser, Jason S.

doi:10.15288/jsa.1976.37.1360

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“…The American Psychiatric Association assumed this disease model and used criteria developed from research on the alcohol dependence syndrome (Edwards & Gross, 1976). The APA defines a progression from alcohol or drug abuse that can lead to the development of alcohol or drug dependence.…”

Section: Alcohol and Drug Dependencementioning

confidence: 99%

Correlates of Recovery from Substance Use Disorders

Gilbert

2018

Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions

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This retrospective study examined the factors affecting recovery from alcohol dependence and drug dependence. A convenience sample of 263 respondents with varying lengths of recovery from a national recovery community organization and a Connecticut-based recovery community organization completed an anonymous on-line survey. The survey, which used both closed-ended and open-ended questions, was designed to collect information on drug and alcohol use and factors that contributed to the respondents' recovery from substance dependence during the respondents' first year of recovery. Recovery capital, which has its theoretical foundations in social capital theory and ecological theory, was the primary construct investigated. For this study, recovery capital was conceptualized as affiliation with twelve step groups (e.g., Alcoholics Anonymous), social support, spirituality, and respondents' financial situation during their first year of recovery. It was hypothesized that greater levels of recovery capital are associated with higher levels of alcohol abstinence self-efficacy, and drug abstinence self-efficacy. Bandura originally conceptualized self-efficacy as those internal and external factors, which motivate a person to change behavior. Researchers operationalized this to measure the level of self-efficacy to abstain from drug, and/or alcohol use. The relationship between recovery and substance abuse treatment was also investigated. It was hypothesized that the level of self-efficacy to abstain from alcohol and drug use is moderated by completion of substance abuse treatment during the first year of recovery. Findings revealed that recovery capital is a statistically significant predictor of alcohol abstinence self-efficacy and drug abstinence selfefficacy. Findings did not support the hypothesis that treatment completion acts as a Correlates of Recovery from Substance Use DisordersWilliam Charles Gilbert, Ph.D. University of Connecticut, 2015moderator for recovery capital and substance abstinence self-efficacy.The answers to open-ended questions also reflected the importance of 12-step affiliation, social support, and spirituality in successful recovery. The study concluded by discussing the relevance of recovery capital construct for guiding social work practice and education.Given the salience of the recovery capital domains in positively influencing ongoing substance use recovery, the researcher proposed the inclusion of spirituality and 12-Step philosophy as integral components in social work treatment and social work education.William Charles Gilbert -University of Connecticut, 2015 Thank you, Dr. Alex Gitterman for your power of example as a social worker and scholar.Thanks mom and dad for providing me with the unconditional love that only parents as wonderful as you could provide. That love has and always will be a motivation to work hard and do well.Thanks Lindsay, Alison, and Ryan for being the best children a father could ask for even during the times when I was buried in my work with little time to talk. ...

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Section: Alcohol and Drug Dependencementioning

confidence: 99%

Correlates of Recovery from Substance Use Disorders

Gilbert

2018

Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions

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“…Tobacco craving reflects a conscious desire or intention to use tobacco. Many accounts of TD include craving as an important dependence symptom [15,[54][55][56], and there is evidence that craving plays a causal role in relapse [14,41,[57][58][59][60], is correlated meaningfully with smoking heaviness [17,19,25] and is correlated with other important features of TD [29,61]. Among all withdrawal symptoms, craving stands out as being associated most highly with TD, and as a predictor of abstinence following a quit attempt [14,[62][63][64].…”

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confidence: 99%

DSM criteria for tobacco use disorder and tobacco withdrawal: a critique and proposed revisions for DSM‐5*

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Aims This paper aims to identify appropriate criteria for tobacco dependence assessment, evaluate relevant research, and suggest revisions that may be incorporated into DSM-5. Methods Desirable conceptual and psychometric features of tobacco dependence assessments were identified, including the types of outcomes against which such assessment should be validated. DSM-IV criteria were matched against these criteria and compared with other dependence measures. Results DSM-IV criteria were found to be ambiguous, little used in tobacco research, and have relatively low predictive validity. Other dependence measures were found to have greater validity in the prediction of important dependence features such as relapse likelihood. Strength of urges to smoke on typical smoking days and during abstinence, markers of nicotine intake or frequency of smoking, and latency to smoke soon after waking were found to be useful dependence measures. Conclusion The use and utility of DSM-5 will be enhanced by eliminating most DSM-IV criteria and adding new ones based on smoking pattern, smoking heaviness, and the severity of craving during periods of smoking and withdrawal.

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“…Edwards placed the development of tolerance to chronic alcohol intake and the manifestation of withdrawal symptoms at the center of his concept of alcohol dependence (Edwards et al 1976). Several studies suggest that the development of alcohol tolerance is associated with counter-adaptive changes in different neurotransmitter systems that bring about homeostasis in the state of chronic alcohol intoxication.…”

Section: A Neurobiological Disease Concept Of Alcoholismmentioning

confidence: 99%