This research aimed to look at how a loved one’s substance use problems can impact on the health and well-being of parents and siblings (1,400 words).
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Journeys into and out of heroin addiction, Part 2
Focuses on living with addiction and covers such topics as relationships, changes in personality and lifestyle, hustling, crime and prison, impact on health, and treatment (5,900 words).
Journeys into and out of heroin addiction, Part 1:
Common themes that resonate about people’s journeys into and out of heroin addiction, and common factors that influence these journeys. This first part focuses on the descent into addiction (5,300 words).
Treatment of substance use problems
Formal treatment can help the initiation of recovery from addiction, facilitating a self-healing process, and help a person minimise the harms from their substance use (2,600 words).
The nature of alcohol dependence
Looks at the cluster of seven elements that make up the template for which the degree of dependence is judged (900 words).
Factors that facilitate recovery
The importance of these factors has been demonstrated by listening to the narratives of recovering people about their journeys into and out of addiction (1,200 words).
Stopping heroin use without treatment
Research by Patrick Biernacki reveals important insights into how people recover from heroin addiction. It also illustrates the major challenges that people with a heroin addiction face on their journey to recovery (2,200 words).
Reflections on recovery – from seven years ago
Looks at the development of the recovery paradigm and how solutions to severe substance use problems are manifested by millions of people who have recovered from addiction (1,800 words).