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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"addicts"”.
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Men who identify as sex addicts – an IPA study
… Analysis to explore six self-identified sex addicts’ experiences of sex addiction. Participants were recruited through an open invitation to attendees of Sex Addicts Anonymous. Six participants came forward from different fellowships around the UK. Semi-structured interviews were carried out …
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Teachers' lens: Children of alcoholics and addicts in classrooms
… addiction through the children of alcoholics/addicts (COAAs) in their classrooms. This qualitative, multimethod study focuses on teachers' perceptions, experiences, and responses to children in their classrooms believed to be prenatally and/or environmentally affected by familial addiction in …
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An exploratory study of heroin addicts' perceptions of methadone treatment
… of program outcomes. This study explored heroin addicts' perceptions of methadone treatment.
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Patient participation, encounter, and methadone-reinforcement in the treatment of heroin addicts
… (and others) that was conducted with heroin addicts and drug abusers undergoing behavioral and pharmacological therapy at Stockton State Hospital, Stockton, California.</p> <p>From June 1970 to December 1970 the Research Department of Stockton State Hospital, in conjunction with the Drug …
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The Lived Experiences of Evangelical Christian Men Who Self-Identify as Sexual Addicts
… Christian men who self-identify as sexual addicts. This qualitative method was existential-phenomenological and focused on the lived experiences of this population. Individual interviews and follow-up individual interviews of six self-identified evangelical male sexual addicts were …
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From Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder to Substance Use Disorder: Perspectives from Recovering Addicts
… adults with ADHD who are recovering drug addicts. They were asked to complete a questionnaire about their perceptions and the trajectory of their personal experience.</p> <p>Results of the current study indicated that adults who had been diagnosed with ADHD as children, or found out later …
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Learning from the Lived Experience of Addicts in Recovery: How to Obtain and Retain Recovery
… by experienced experts - the recovering addicts themselves. In this phenomenological study nine participants with over seventeen years of abstinence describe their journey from addiction to recovery. Two theories were joined by the researcher to construct a conceptual framework that …
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Assessment of Environmental Perceptions and Behavior Changes in Residentsof a Therapeutic Community for Drug Addicts
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Predicting Rehabilitated or Relapsed Status of Malay Drug Addicts in Singapore: The Role of Familial, Individual, Religious, and Social Support Factors
The implications of the findings were discussed at several levels--policy makers, program developers, social work intervention, and future research.
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Complete Freedom from Addiction, through Christ: Observation and Life-Stories from the former Soviet Union and Interviews with International Rehabilitation Leaders
… drug and alcohol rehabilitation of thousands of addicts in the former Soviet Union using 50 life-stories of ex-addicts and personal observation over six years visiting 60 rehabilitation centres. Addiction is understood to be primarily a spiritual problem that has powerful psychological and …
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A Study of the Personality Characteristics of Patients in Methadone Maintenance Programs
Estimates of the number of heroin addicts in the United States vary between 200,000 and 500,000. Although differences of opinion exist as to the numbers of heroin addicts, there is little argument about the cost of supporting their addiction. Hundreds of millions of dollars are lost each year …
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Contribution of Reference Agents to Recovery Maintenance: A Social World Analysis of Narcotics Anonymous Affiliation
… drug abuse recovery. To determine how recovering addicts use reference agents, such as reference groups and/or reference others, to achieve and maintain sobriety within the context of the Narcotics Anonymous (NA) support group experience, this study examines how Newcomers learn the norms and …
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Addressing the experience of parents of substance abusing youth : a model for pastoral care
… amongst the youth in South African Townships. Addicts often become delinquents in society by turning to criminal activities to support their habit. Parents suffer great financial loss at their hands as well as additional trauma brought on by aggression and intimidation from the addicts who try …
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Live and let die: opiate overdose deaths in Chicago
… we found females and or non-married drug addicts, even if they were Black, lived shorter lives than others in this study. Extended longevity among opiate addicts might indicate the existence of resistance factors to death by opiate overdose. Investigating these factors might contribute to …
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Pusat rehabilitasi narkoba di Batu: Tema arsitektur perilaku (hirarki human needs)
… of therapy for healing and recovery of the drug addicts. Drug rehabilitation center buildings are designed due to the increasing number of drug addicts while the place for the healing and rehabilitation are still lacking. Government and non government bodies actually has provided some …
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Addiction as an Excuse
… excuse from blame. The first chapter argues that addicts have diminished control over their drug use. Chapter 2 develops the ethical framework that I will use to approach the question. Chapter 3 argues that addiction does not undermine moral responsibility. The upshot of this is that if addiction …
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Beauty and the treatment of addiction
… reaping significant damage on society, on addicts, and on their families and friends. The past century has seen a vast increase in the treatment of addiction, but these methods have failure rates of 50% or greater. This work seeks an alternative approach to addiction treatment, using the …
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Queering Addiction
… give voice to the often unmentionable.</p> <p>Addicts often negotiate with norms. It is here that we witness their attempts to create a sense of an embodied normative self-identity. These sought-after self-identities come with bodily limitations and histories through which the addict has been …
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