The Varieties of Recovery Experience: A Primer for Addiction Treatment Professionals and Recovery Advocates

White, William L.; Kurtz, Ernest

doi:10.2190/911r-mtq5-vj1h-75cu

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“…This finding supports the possible reciprocity between a CO's Al-Anon participation and the drinker's 12-step group participation (Roth & Tan, 2007; White & Kurtz, 2005). It also suggests that, like dropouts, drinkers of dropouts may downplay their problems and need for help.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

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Newcomers to Al-Anon family groups: Who stays and who drops out?

Timko

Laudet

Moos

2014

Addictive Behaviors

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Al-Anon Family Groups (Al-Anon), a 12-step mutual-help program for people concerned about another's drinking, is the most widely used form of help for concerned others (COs) in the US. This study assessed the prevalence of dropout, and predictors of dropout, in the six months following newcomers' initial attendance at Al-Anon meetings. Al-Anon's World Service Office mailed a random sample of groups, which subsequently yielded a sample of 251 newcomers who completed surveys at baseline and 6 months later. At the 6-month follow-up, 57% of newcomers at baseline had dropped out (had not attended any Al-Anon meetings during the past month). At baseline, individuals who later dropped out of Al-Anon were less likely to have been referred to Al-Anon by their drinker's health care provider, and reported less severe problems than individuals who continued to attend, but dropouts were more often concerned about their drinker's psychological health; newcomers with these concerns may have found them incompatible with Al-Anon's philosophy. Dropouts reported high rates of problems, suggesting that COs who drop out of Al-Anon would benefit from ongoing help and support.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 78%

Newcomers to Al-Anon family groups: Who stays and who drops out?

Timko

Laudet

Moos

2014

Addictive Behaviors

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“…The prevalence of co-occurring mental illness as well as prior homelessness resulted in a high rate of relapse within the new PSH community. This relapse rate was not atypical of the population served (White and Kurtz, 2006b;SAMHSA, 2007). In order to address the problem of relapse for PSH residents, a Peer Support Community (PSC) Programme was developed.…”

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confidence: 61%

“…It is apparent to those who work in the addictions treatment fi eld that relapse is common and that stable recovery from substance use disorder (SUD) is generally not attained until the patient has achieved 4-5 years of continuous recovery (White and Kurtz, 2006b). Recent literature suggests that peer-driven or support communities may be an effective approach to reduce the number of relapses of alcohol and other drug (AOD) use (White et al, 2004;White and Kurtz, 2006a).…”

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confidence: 99%

Effectiveness of a peer‐support community in addiction recovery: participation as intervention

Boisvert

Martin

Grosek

et al. 2008

Occupation Therapy Intl

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“…Breaking the spin might begin a recovery process, as experienced by several participants. Such a process calls for further rehabilitative methods, mostly integrative ones, as described by positive criminology (Ronel and Elisha, 2011), reintegrative shaming (Braithwaite, 1989), recovery literature (White and Kurtz, 2005) and the Good-Life Model (Ward and Maruna, 2007).…”

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The experience of gambling in an illegal casino: The gambling spin process

Bensimon

Baruch

Ronel

2013

European Journal of Criminology

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The present study depicts the experience of gambling in an illegal casino through a qualitative, phenomenological approach, in light of the criminal spin theory. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 gamblers and 4 staff members. Qualitative analysis of the data reveals several major categories that describe the participants' experiences: fears in the illegal casino; learning through experience and with the assistance of a mentor; strengthening the sense of potency; a tunnel vision perspective; the growing urge to gamble; losing control; harming the family; and finding a way out of gambling. The findings indicate that the illegal casino created a unique atmosphere for its attendees that fostered a gambling spin that coincides with the motives of spin theory.

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The Varieties of Recovery Experience: A Primer for Addiction Treatment Professionals and Recovery Advocates

Cited by 119 publications

References 119 publications

Newcomers to Al-Anon family groups: Who stays and who drops out?

Newcomers to Al-Anon family groups: Who stays and who drops out?

Effectiveness of a peer‐support community in addiction recovery: participation as intervention

The experience of gambling in an illegal casino: The gambling spin process

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