Dysfunctional eating in recovering addicts

2021 ◽  
pp. 96-115
Author(s):  
Sarah Pennock
Keyword(s):  
Recovering Addicts

Recovery Capital, Drug Policy and the Cycle of Incarceration

2010 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Lyons
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Drug Policy ◽  
Marked Improvement ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Alcohol Problem ◽  
Prison Inmates ◽  
Internal Process ◽  
Recovery Capital ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Recovering Addicts

By some estimates, more than half of prison inmates in America have a drug or alcohol problem (Mumola and Karberg 2006). Existing models of treatment for these individuals, both inside and outside prison, have typically focused on the individual addict. These interventions often neglect the users' families and communities, and view poverty and marginalization as tangential to recovery—which is seen instead purely as an individual, internal process. This perspective defines addiction as a brain disease, and emphasizes the need of recovering addicts to learn new skills and to take personal responsibility for their actions and lives (Committee on Addictions of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, 2002). These models, though a marked improvement over the idea of drug addiction as a moral failing, place an over-riding emphasis on the individual at the expense of the economic and social context.

Journeys From Addiction to Recovery

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 256-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Hansen ◽  
Barbara Ganley ◽  
Chris Carlucci
Keyword(s):  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Transtheoretical Model ◽  
New Combination ◽  
Transtheoretical Model Of Change ◽  
Behavior Support ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Recovering Addicts

Addiction affects us all. It has wide-reaching consequences for the individual, the family, and society as a whole. This article attempts to assist providers and addicts in understanding the road to recovery. Transformation from addiction to recovery is best explained by recovering addicts themselves. In this qualitative study, nine participants describe their experiences with long-term recovery. The transtheoretical model of change (Prochaska & DiClemente, 1983) was combined with Mezirow’s (1997) transformative learning theory to structure a framework that highlights the transition of these individuals as they moved from addiction to recovery. This new combination model can be used to anticipate behavior, support, and encourage patients in the change from active addiction to a healthier lifestyle without drugs and alcohol.

Loss and bereavement groups in the treatment of recovering addicts

Death Studies ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rostyslaw Robak
Keyword(s):  
Recovering Addicts

Tables Away from Home

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet A. Flammang
Keyword(s):  
Alcoholics Anonymous ◽  
Prevention Programs ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Addiction Recovery ◽  
Recovery Programs ◽  
Gang Prevention ◽  
Table Talk ◽  
The Military ◽  
Recovering Addicts

This chapter focuses on table conversations that take place outside the home. More specifically, it considers in-depth cases of how our civic selves are developed through conversations in a variety of settings such as friends' homes, schools, camps, colleges, religious institutions, firehouses, addiction-recovery programs, gang prevention programs, and the military. After discussing commensality and conversation found at school tables, the chapter examines table talk that transpires at camp tables, college tables, religious tables, male tables, homies dinners, military meals, and at meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous and other programs for recovering addicts. It shows that people gathered at tables away from home emulate domestic tables by re-creating “family” or “comfort” or “safety,” all of which help an individual find his/her voice in conversations.

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