Family Role in the Reintegration Process of Recovering Drug Addicts

Abstract

In an outcome evaluation of recovering addicts who participated in a prison-based therapeutic community, 39 clients, a nonrandomized subsample, are interviewed about their rehabilitation and reintegration experience. This study focuses on the family as the main source of support and as an agent of change for the recovering drug addict. Although many studies show marriage and family to be positively related to successful reintegration and rehabilitation, clients in this study report families as having a negative effect on the rehabilitation and reintegration process. This is especially true among those who reunite with their spouse. The findings are discussed in regard to role expectations and support mechanisms, and suggestions are made for further research.

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“…Because the quality of social bonds is widely recognized as a salient factor affecting adult crime and deviance in general (Sampson & Laub, 2003; Sampson et al, 2006), and former prisoners’ reentry and reintegration in particular (Gideon, 2007; Laird, 2013; Naser & Visher, 2006; Travis, 2005), we included every respondent’s family relationship as one proxy of adult social bonds. The variable of family bonds was constructed adaptively from the scale for family relationship that was used in the Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey (MOS-SS; Sherbourne & Stewart, 1991).…”

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“…It also makes adjustment to society more problematic, it is not easy to obtain employment, offenders become alienated from their families and the community. According to (Gideon, 2007) low quality relationships between the offender and the family leads to conflicts which ultimately results in their reoffending behaviours. Due to ineffective rehabilitation they are not able to acquire communication skills that help in interacting with others and in getting meaningful employment outside the prison.…”