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Act for Recovery
Published in Sandra Rasmussen, Developing Competencies for Recovery, 2023
Addiction often begins with a habit: repeated substance use or addictive behavior. Addiction develops when a person is unable to go without the substance or the behavior, or activity. The person psychologically and physiologically needs the substance or behavior, despite knowing and experiencing harmful effects and adverse consequences.
Domain II: Prevention Education and Service Delivery
Published in Nicole M. Augustine, Prevention Specialist Exam Study Guide, 2023
This continuum offers a comprehensive way of viewing the opportunities to intervene and address behavioral health problems. The model includes four primary components:Promotion: The goal of these strategies is to create a supportive environment for individuals. The promotion strategies reinforce the entire continuum of behavioral health services.Prevention: These efforts are delivered prior to the onset of a substance use disorder, and are designed to prevent or reduce the risk of developing behavioral health problems like underage alcohol use, prescription medication (such as opioids), or illicit drug use.Treatment: These services are for people diagnosed with substance use or other behavioral health disorder.Recovery: These strategies are designed to support the maintenance of wellness gained during treatment.
Assessment of Co-occurring Disorders, Levels of Care, and ASAM Requirements
Published in Tricia L. Chandler, Fredrick Dombrowski, Tara G. Matthews, Co-occurring Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders, 2022
Elizabeth Reyes-Fournier, Tara G. Matthews, Tom Alexander
It is important to note that both the residential and inpatient levels of care also offer specific withdrawal management services (Ries et al., 2014). Many persons with co-occurring disorders who seek treatment may need medical oversight of withdrawal symptoms to ensure that clinical risk is mitigated, along with an improvement in ability to engage immediately with treatment resources. Overall, withdrawal management is often a significant component of the treatment process, especially in the initial stage of treatment when substance use may have been more recent and intense. The effects of substance use withdrawal on mental health–related symptomatology are discussed in a previous section of this chapter. It is important for counselors to consider that services used to specifically manage withdrawal symptoms can help an individual become linked with ongoing forms of treatment. However, the focus of this level of care is to assist the individual with managing symptoms of withdrawal to be able to engage in ongoing treatment to improve recovery-related skills. This level of treatment alone does not provide the same type of support and skills enhancement as other and longer forms of treatment.
How deep is the cancerous cut of substance use disorders on human rights? The effects of substance use disorders from a human rights perspective: The thinking of Developmental Clinical Social Work
Published in Social Work in Health Care, 2023
Robert K. Chigangaidze, Muridzo Noel Garikai, Simbine Samuel Lisenga
Health has come to be regarded as a prerequisite for optimum socio-economic development of human beings (Sangamithra & ShanmugaPriya, 2016). As previously explained, substance use disorders affect people’s health. Substance use disorders have serious economic consequences, costing more than US$400 billion annually in crime, health, and productivity in the United States of America (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HHS, Office of the Surgeon General, 2016). The basis of cost components in substance use disorders includes three fields: health care costs, productivity losses, and costs of other effects. Health care costs include rehabilitation, medical complications, health infrastructure, and support. Productivity losses account for premature deaths, drug use-related illnesses, victims of crime, crime careers, and incarceration. Costs of other effects include road traffic accidents and insurance costs, loss of goods and services due to crime secondary to substance use disorders (Higson & Rehm, 2013; Office of National Drug Control Policy, 2004).
Evaluation of the effect of mindfulness on stress and self-efficacy in patients with substance use disorder: a cross-sectional survey
Published in Journal of Substance Use, 2023
Kübra Kayaoğlu, Ali Baran Tanrıkulu
Withdrawal in substance use disorder is the state where physiological and cognitive symptoms occur when the substance level in the blood and tissues begins to decrease after the substance which has been used intensively for a long time is quitted or reduced (Pergolizzi et al., 2020). With the emergence of these unpleasant withdrawal symptoms, the person tries to avoid these symptoms by using substances again. These negative moods, distress, and pain can be prevented by regulating emotions through mindfulness practices. The person can manage their emotions and increase their well-being (Tırışkan et al., 2015). When the mean MAAS and PSS scores of the participants were compared, a strong negative correlation was observed (Table 3). A simple linear regression analysis was performed to determine the effects of participants’ mindfulness levels on their stress levels, and the regression model was found to be statistically significant (Table 4). When the relevant literature was examined, many compilations on this subject were discovered, but there were only a few research articles. Mindfulness training is thought to be effective in reducing the severity of relapse-related factors such as anxiety, depression, and stress (Zgierska et al., 2009). Studies examining the relationship between mindfulness and relapse rates in substance use disorder have found that negative moods due to craving can be managed and relapse rates can be decreased by improving mindfulness.
Leisure constraints experienced by people in early recovery from substance use disorders
Published in Journal of Substance Use, 2023
Jason Page, Brent Hawkins, Jasmine Townsend, Stephen Lewis, James Byrne
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services’ (Nugent, 2012) working definition of recovery, “[a] process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential,” does not specify particular changes individuals may need to make to relationships, behaviors, or beliefs as part of the recovery process (Mooney et al., 2014). Rather, the working definition focuses on recovery outcomes such as improved health and a sense of purpose (Nugent, 2012). Work by Kaskutas et al. (2014) explored the concept of recovery and found that participants viewed being honest with oneself, handling negative feelings with substances, being able to enjoy life without substances, growth and personal development, reacting to life challenges in a balanced way, and taking responsibility for things in their past that they cannot change (Kaskutas et al., 2014). Kaskutas et al. (2014) underscores the potential of leisure in helping people manage their recovery as a means of promoting individual growth, honesty, and responsibility. However, given recovery’s subjectivity, there is a need for person-centered care that acknowledges personal preferences and constraints.