Despite the influence of neighborhood safety on stress and other psychological and health outcomes, the field knows very little about its impact on SUD recovery.
Despite the influence of neighborhood safety on stress and other psychological and health outcomes, the field knows very little about its impact on SUD recovery.
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Many substance use disorder (SUD) treatment models encourage patients to address certain places and situations in promoting recovery (e.g., avoiding a town where the individual bought drugs).
Furthermore, women account for roughly 32% of SUD treatment admissions, though we are only beginning to learn about their unique clinical and recovery needs. Motherhood in particular is a valuable area in recovery research because the most common ages to seek SUD treatment (young adulthood) overlap with the most likely ages where a woman has young children or will become pregnant. Researchers in other areas have shown a plethora of lasting, deleterious effects of SUD on maternal and child health during pregnancy and early life.
Successful recovery is defined as no illicit drug use or criminal justice involvement in the 30 days before being assessed.
Notably from the study:
Authors raise the idea that negative recovery capital might counteract the positive influence of an overall safe neighborhood, meaning for some of these women social interaction and cohesion with neighbors could be risky and introduce them to old social circles.
In this very unique study, authors showed that perceived neighborhood safety can be an impact factor in SUD recovery, enhancing the field’s existing research on the benefits of recovery-specific social support. Indeed, recovery research might borrow from Brofenbrenner’s ecological systems theory, where it has long been assumed that an individual’s development – and recovery is a developmental process, no doubt – will proceed as a function of its interactions with many systems of increasing scope, including not only one’s neighborhood and community resources but also cultural norms and attitudes.
Evans, E., Li, L., Buoncristiani, S., & Hser, Y. I. (2014). Perceived neighborhood safety, recovery capital, and successful outcomes among mothers 10 years after substance abuse treatment. Substance use & misuse, 49(11), 1491-1503.
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Many substance use disorder (SUD) treatment models encourage patients to address certain places and situations in promoting recovery (e.g., avoiding a town where the individual bought drugs).
Furthermore, women account for roughly 32% of SUD treatment admissions, though we are only beginning to learn about their unique clinical and recovery needs. Motherhood in particular is a valuable area in recovery research because the most common ages to seek SUD treatment (young adulthood) overlap with the most likely ages where a woman has young children or will become pregnant. Researchers in other areas have shown a plethora of lasting, deleterious effects of SUD on maternal and child health during pregnancy and early life.
Successful recovery is defined as no illicit drug use or criminal justice involvement in the 30 days before being assessed.
Notably from the study:
Authors raise the idea that negative recovery capital might counteract the positive influence of an overall safe neighborhood, meaning for some of these women social interaction and cohesion with neighbors could be risky and introduce them to old social circles.
In this very unique study, authors showed that perceived neighborhood safety can be an impact factor in SUD recovery, enhancing the field’s existing research on the benefits of recovery-specific social support. Indeed, recovery research might borrow from Brofenbrenner’s ecological systems theory, where it has long been assumed that an individual’s development – and recovery is a developmental process, no doubt – will proceed as a function of its interactions with many systems of increasing scope, including not only one’s neighborhood and community resources but also cultural norms and attitudes.
Evans, E., Li, L., Buoncristiani, S., & Hser, Y. I. (2014). Perceived neighborhood safety, recovery capital, and successful outcomes among mothers 10 years after substance abuse treatment. Substance use & misuse, 49(11), 1491-1503.
l
Many substance use disorder (SUD) treatment models encourage patients to address certain places and situations in promoting recovery (e.g., avoiding a town where the individual bought drugs).
Furthermore, women account for roughly 32% of SUD treatment admissions, though we are only beginning to learn about their unique clinical and recovery needs. Motherhood in particular is a valuable area in recovery research because the most common ages to seek SUD treatment (young adulthood) overlap with the most likely ages where a woman has young children or will become pregnant. Researchers in other areas have shown a plethora of lasting, deleterious effects of SUD on maternal and child health during pregnancy and early life.
Successful recovery is defined as no illicit drug use or criminal justice involvement in the 30 days before being assessed.
Notably from the study:
Authors raise the idea that negative recovery capital might counteract the positive influence of an overall safe neighborhood, meaning for some of these women social interaction and cohesion with neighbors could be risky and introduce them to old social circles.
In this very unique study, authors showed that perceived neighborhood safety can be an impact factor in SUD recovery, enhancing the field’s existing research on the benefits of recovery-specific social support. Indeed, recovery research might borrow from Brofenbrenner’s ecological systems theory, where it has long been assumed that an individual’s development – and recovery is a developmental process, no doubt – will proceed as a function of its interactions with many systems of increasing scope, including not only one’s neighborhood and community resources but also cultural norms and attitudes.
Evans, E., Li, L., Buoncristiani, S., & Hser, Y. I. (2014). Perceived neighborhood safety, recovery capital, and successful outcomes among mothers 10 years after substance abuse treatment. Substance use & misuse, 49(11), 1491-1503.
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