Love and Service in Adolescent Addiction Recovery

Lee, Matthew T.; Pagano, Maria E.; Johnson, Byron R.; Post, Stephen G.

doi:10.1080/07347324.2016.1148513

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“…Since volunteering and helping others are associated with positive health outcomes (Yeung et al 2017), substance abuse recovery programs dependent on volunteering, such as those offered in A.A. and congregation-based groups, have a built-in advantage for success. More specifically, volunteering and helping others is found to be instrumental in addiction recovery (Lee et al 2016; Johnson et al 2016a, b; Pagano et al 2015; Post et al 2015, 2016). From the perspective of social identity theory (Dingle et al 2015), recovery is aided, and perhaps necessitated, by the presence of a consistent reference group of individuals who can help patients reconstruct their new identity as “nondrinking alcoholics,” that is, someone who is prone to abuse alcohol but decidedly no longer drinks (Borkman 2008).…”

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Belief, Behavior, and Belonging: How Faith is Indispensable in Preventing and Recovering from Substance Abuse

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2019

J Relig Health

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This study reviews the voluminous empirical evidence on faith’s contribution to preventing people from falling victim to substance abuse and helping them recover from it. We find that 73% of addiction treatment programs in the USA include a spirituality-based element, as embodied in the 12-step programs and fellowships initially popularized by Alcoholics Anonymous, the vast majority of which emphasize reliance on God or a Higher Power to stay sober. We introduce and flesh out a typology of faith-based substance abuse treatment facilities, recovery programs, and support groups. This typology provides important background as we then move on to make an economic valuation of nearly 130,000 congregation-based substance abuse recovery support programs in the USA. We find that these faith-based volunteer support groups contribute up to $316.6 billion in savings to the US economy every year at no cost to tax payers. While negative experiences with religion (e.g., clergy sex abuse and other horrendous examples) have been a contributory factor to substance abuse among some victims, given that more than 84% of scientific studies show that faith is a positive factor in addiction prevention or recovery and a risk in less than 2% of the studies reviewed, we conclude that the value of faith-oriented approaches to substance abuse prevention and recovery is indisputable. And, by extension, we also conclude that the decline in religious affiliation in the USA is not only a concern for religious organizations but constitutes a national health concern.

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Belief, Behavior, and Belonging: How Faith is Indispensable in Preventing and Recovering from Substance Abuse

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“…Without humility, these programs argue that motivation for learning how to stay sober and to make sober lifestyle changes is likely to be low. Our data suggest that adolescents who enter treatment with higher humility have greater motivation to stop drinking and using drugs (Pagano et al, 2016), and that spiritual virtue and humility are linked (Lee, Pagano, Johnson, & Post, 2016). Our findings suggest a relationship between religious practices, spiritual experiences, service to others, and a number of outcomes, including humility, desistence from delinquency, and alcohol and other drug (AOD) recovery.…”

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Humility and 12-Step Recovery: A Prolegomenon for the Empirical Investigation of a Cardinal Virtue in Alcoholics Anonymous

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Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly

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Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) offers a live stage to study how humility is worn by thousands for another day of sobriety and more freedom from the bondage of self. It has been the coauthors’ intent to emphasize the significance of humility as a cardinal virtue across the 12-Step program and as essential to all its key elements. The coauthors have placed this emphasis in the context of a wider theological history of thought as this converged on Bill W. and AA. In addition, the coauthors have offered a constructive developmental interpretation of the 12 Steps that relies on a model of four modulations of humility. Finally, the coauthors have reviewed in brief some approaches to the measurement of humility in this context, and suggest several aims for future research.

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“…There were no significant intake differences between adolescents who were enrolled versus not enrolled but treated during the enrollment period in terms of intake characteristics and rates of treatment retention, as reported in detail elsewhere (Kelly et al, 2011). Participants without a discharge interview (4% of the enrollment sample) did not differ from participants with a discharge interview, as described in detail elsewhere (Lee, Pagano, Johnson, & Post, 2016). …”

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Smoking Cessation and Adolescent Treatment Response With Comorbid ADHD

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Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment

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Minors entering treatment for alcohol and other drug (AOD) use disorders tend to smoke at high rates, and many have comorbid attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Clear-air laws force patients to refrain from smoking on the premises of AOD treatment facilities, which may hinder the progress of treatment-seeking populations who smoke and struggle with ADHD comorbidity in particular. This study explores clinical characteristics associated with smoking among youths presenting for residential treatment, clinical characteristics associated with smoking cessation, and the impact of smoking cessation with ADHD comorbidity on AOD treatment response. Participants were 195 adolescents (52% female, aged 14–18 years) court-referred to residential treatment. Data were collected at intake, prospectively each week for the 10-week treatment period, and at discharge. Two-thirds (67%) of the enrollment sample entered treatment smoking half a pack a day on average, a large proportion (50%) of which did not smoke during treatment. ADHD patients were more likely to smoke before and during treatment except for those who got active in service and step-work. Quitting smoking did not adversely affect AOD outcomes and was associated with better prognosis of lowered AOD cravings for youths with and without ADHD. Smoking cessation during adolescent AOD treatment is recommended with provision of pharmaceutical and/or behavioral modalities that reduce nicotine withdrawal.

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Love and Service in Adolescent Addiction Recovery

Cited by 22 publications

References 73 publications

Belief, Behavior, and Belonging: How Faith is Indispensable in Preventing and Recovering from Substance Abuse

Belief, Behavior, and Belonging: How Faith is Indispensable in Preventing and Recovering from Substance Abuse

Humility and 12-Step Recovery: A Prolegomenon for the Empirical Investigation of a Cardinal Virtue in Alcoholics Anonymous

Smoking Cessation and Adolescent Treatment Response With Comorbid ADHD

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