Health and Illness in Close Relationships

The impact of family systems and social networks on substance use initiation and recovery among women with substance use disorders.

“…Close relationships with family members, partners, and friends can simultaneously protect and exacerbate OUD (Crowley & Miller, 2020;Duggan, 2019). In other words, communication and social interaction link the social networks in which people are embedded to their recovery outcomes, for better or worse (Duggan, 2019). Our results indicate that family systems might be a valuable intervention point for improving MOUD treatment success rates for affected women because families and romantic partners were consistently identified as a source of intergenerational trauma and unhealthy dynamics.…”

“…This nested social network approach to understanding MOUD treatment success provides multidimensional insights into the factors that promote and hinder successful OUD recovery. Close relationships with family members, partners, and friends can simultaneously protect and exacerbate OUD (Crowley & Miller, 2020;Duggan, 2019). In other words, communication and social interaction link the social networks in which people are embedded to their recovery outcomes, for better or worse (Duggan, 2019).…”

Recognizing the blurred boundary between health‐related support and control in close relationships

“…When research is conducted with volunteer participants drawn from clinical samples of people diagnosed and seeking treatment for a health issue, we are able to focus attention on a specific population, yet these samples miss individuals who have no or low access to healthcare. As we see increases in knowledge and investment in science and technology that allow for more accurate diagnosis and treatment of disease, we also see disparities in the form of access to quality healthcare such that advances in science, technology, and medicine are unequally distributed (Duggan, 2019). With great variability in the distribution of resources, health disparities across communities and countries interconnect with social factors including the ability to request and receive social support.…”

“Alexa, Can You Be My Family Medicine Doctor?” The Future of Family Medicine in the Coming Techno-World

“…This therapeutic use of the self is the communicative interconnection between core values of family medicine and the human ability to engage with the patient in a humanistic way. It is an amalgamation of the illness in the context of patients' identify and their relationships, 18 situated within the unique relationship between doctor and patient, with the answer emerging during the human-to-human connection. 4 The move toward retail medicine and diminishing expectations of people seeking health care may move relationship building away from between patient and doctor and to between customers and accountable care organizations 19 think about the "relationships" people have with organizations such as Walmart, Apple, or their preferred news source.…”