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Chronic Addiction and Recovery Management: Implications for Clinical Practice.

Year: 2007

Type: article

Abstract: In 2001, Dr. Lonnie Shavelson published Hooked, a provocative study of the lives of five individuals whose addictions propelled them through multiple episodes of addiction treatment and encounters with a host of other community institutions. Shavelson’s ethnography of addiction was in part an expose of a treatment system that failed to comprehend and respond to the chronic and complex nature of addiction and recovery. This article summarizes the empirical evidence that addiction is for many a chronic condition, identifies risk factors for such chronicity, highlights the consequences of treating chronic addiction in the context of an acute care model, and notes the emergence of sustained recovery management models as well as the clinical implications of such models.

Source: PubMed

Authors: Christy Scott, William White, Michael L Dennis

Institution: Chestnut Health Systems

Language: English

Topic: Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes

Subfield: Epidemiology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institute on Drug Abuse

Awards: Early Re-Intervention Experiment2(ERI-2), Smartphone Addiction Recovery Coach for Young Adults (SARC-YA) Experiment, Pathways to Recovery: Older Substance Users