Spirituality in Addictions Treatment: Wisdom to Know…What It Is

Sussman, Steve; Milam, Joel; Arpawong, Thalida Em; Tsai, Jennifer; Black, David S.; Wills, Thomas A.

doi:10.3109/10826084.2013.800343

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“…Finally, addiction often involves a reprioritization of everyday activities, with those struggling in their recovery showing less concern for health (Downey, Rosengren, & Donovan, 2001) and spirituality (Sussman et al, 2013) and exhibiting lower motivation to achieve recovery goals (Aharonovich, Amrhein, Bisaga, Nunes, & Hasin, 2008). Conversely those on their path to recovery demonstrate the opposite pattern – elevated concern with health and spirituality, and higher and more consistent achievement orientation.…”

Section: Language Use and Psychological Dynamicsmentioning

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What Do You Say Before You Relapse? How Language Use in a Peer-to-peer Online Discussion Forum Predicts Risky Drinking among Those in Recovery

Kornfield

Toma

Shah

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Health Communication

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Increasingly, individuals with alcohol use disorder (AUD) seek and provide support for relapse prevention in text-based online environments such as discussion forums. This paper investigates whether language use within a peer-to-peer discussion forum can predict future relapse among individuals treated for AUD. A total of 104 AUD sufferers who had completed residential treatment participated in a mobile phone-based relapse-prevention program, where they communicated via an online forum over the course of a year. We extracted patterns of language use on the forum within the first four months on study using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC), a dictionary-based text analysis program. Participants reported their incidence of risky drinking via a survey at 4, 8, and 12 months. A logistic regression model was built to predict the likelihood that individuals would engage in risky drinking within a year based on their language use, while controlling for baseline characteristics and rates of utilizing the mobile system. Results show that all baseline characteristics and system use factors explained just 13% of the variance in relapse, whereas a small number of linguistic cues, including swearing and cognitive mechanism words, accounted for an additional 32% of the total 45% of variance in relapse explained by the model. Effective models for predicting relapse are needed. Messages exchanged on AUD forums could provide an unobtrusive and cost-effective window into the future health outcomes of AUD sufferers, and their psychological underpinnings. As online communication expands, models that leverage user-submitted text toward predicting relapse will be increasingly scalable and actionable.

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What Do You Say Before You Relapse? How Language Use in a Peer-to-peer Online Discussion Forum Predicts Risky Drinking among Those in Recovery

Kornfield

Toma

Shah

et al. 2017

Health Communication

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“…Regarding substance use and addiction, most spiritual-religious (S/R) traditions globally either proscribe against any use of intoxicating substances, or if permitting use, frown upon heavy use because it can be deleterious to health and cause intoxication that in turn can lead to transgressions. Consequently, these sociocultural rules and mores inherent in different S/R traditions have been associated with lower levels of onset of harmful and hazardous substance use (Burdette, Webb, Hill, Haynes, & Ford, 2018; Medlock et al, 2017; Park et al, 2017; Sussman et al, 2013). Also, perhaps more than with any other psychiatric illness, S/R practices and beliefs have long been associated with alcohol and other drug addiction and recovery (Connors, Walitzer, & Tonigan, 2008; Dunlop & Tracy, 2013; Galanter, 2006; Kelly, Stout, Magill, Tonigan, & Pagano, 2011; Kelly & White, 2011; Krentzman, Cranford, & Robinson, 2013).…”

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The role of spirituality and religiousness in aiding recovery from alcohol and other drug problems: An investigation in a national U.S. sample.

Kelly

Eddie

2020

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

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More Americans than ever before are identifying as "spiritual but not religious." Both spirituality and religiosity (S/R) are of interest in the addiction field as they are related to alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems and are central to some recovery pathways. Yet little is known overall about S/R identification among people in recovery, the role these play in aiding recovery, and whether they play more or less of a role for certain subgroups (e.g., men/women, different races/ethnicities; those with treatment or 12-step histories). Here we characterize S/R and its associations with AOD recovery in a nationally representative, cross-sectional sample of U.S. adults (N ϭ 39,809) screening positive to the question, "Did you use to have a problem with alcohol or drugs but no longer do?" (final weighted sample n ϭ 2,002). Weighted chi-square and Poisson-distributed generalized linear mixed models were used to assess S/R and test for differences across subgroups on extent of spiritual, and religious identification, and the extent to which these had aided individuals' recovery. Participants mostly reported being moderately spiritual and religious, and that overall, religion had not helped them overcome their AOD problem. In contrast, spirituality was most commonly reported as either not helping at all, or having made all the difference in terms of helping individuals overcome their AOD problem. Further, substantial differences were observed by race/ethnicity across both spirituality and religiosity, and to a lesser degree between men and women. Black Americans reported substantially more S/R than Whites, and that these often made all the difference in their recovery. The exact opposite trend was observed for White and Hispanic Americans. Prior professional treatment and 12-step mutual-aid use were both related to greater spirituality, but not religiosity. Overall, spirituality but not religion, appears to play a role in aiding recovery, particularly among those with prior treatment or 12-step histories, but women and men, and racial-ethnic groups in particular, differ strikingly in their spiritual and religious identification, and the role these have played in aiding recovery. These differences raise the question of the potential clinical utility of S/R in personalized treatment.

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“…Moreover, another study also emphasized that feeling of spirituality can enhance the recovery process and act as a protective agent for cessation of addiction. [43][44][45] Furthermore, one surprising variable that was found to be significantly associated with addiction was spiritual struggle. [46][47] This finding may support the hypothesis that spirituality element plays a significant role to in long term recovery of addiction as it can be categorized as spiritual illness.…”

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Impact of Spiritual Meditation on Drug Addiction Recovery and Wellbeing: A Systematic Review

Kadri

Husain

Omar

2020

Int. J. Hum. Health Sci.

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It is well recognized throughout the history that religiosity, spirituality and the meditation practice have significant effects to the physical and mental health. Hence, this paper interested to evaluate the effectiveness of spiritual meditation on drug addiction recovery and its effects on psychological and mental health aspects. Three main databases in medicinal and psychology field were screened to identify the eligible studies which are PubMed, Cochrane and Scopus by using Boolean expression. Fourteen papers were included in this review. Standardized mean differences were calculated based on the intergroup mean difference and standard deviation followed by Cochran’s Q and I2 determination for heterogeneity analysis. The mean differences were statistically pooled in the meta-analysis and presented as a forest plot. The risk of bias was high for each study and assessed using the Jadad scale. The meta-analysis showed significant differences in across studies for addiction related outcome (I2=27%, 95% CI: -1.703, -0.454), anxiety (I2=0%, 95% CI: -0.874, -0.634) and stress (I2=100%, 95% CI: -0.874, -0.634). In general, spiritual meditation may promote the addiction recovery as well as improve the psychological and mental health outcomes by reducing the depression, anxiety and stress symptoms. In conclusion, randomized control trial on spiritual meditation gave positive impact on the addiction behavior as well as mental health and clarifies its reliability on addiction therapy problems.International Journal of Human and Health Sciences Vol. 04 No. 04 October’20 Page : 237-250

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Spirituality in Addictions Treatment: Wisdom to Know…What It Is

Cited by 59 publications

References 88 publications

What Do You Say Before You Relapse? How Language Use in a Peer-to-peer Online Discussion Forum Predicts Risky Drinking among Those in Recovery

What Do You Say Before You Relapse? How Language Use in a Peer-to-peer Online Discussion Forum Predicts Risky Drinking among Those in Recovery

The role of spirituality and religiousness in aiding recovery from alcohol and other drug problems: An investigation in a national U.S. sample.

Impact of Spiritual Meditation on Drug Addiction Recovery and Wellbeing: A Systematic Review

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