Measuring recovery capital for people recovering from alcohol and drug addiction: a systematic review

A Bunaciu, AM Bliuc, D Best, EA Hennessy… - Addiction Research & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Background Recovery capital theory provides a biopsychosocial framework for identifying
and measuring strengths and barriers that can be targeted to support recovery from alcohol …

“I grew up amidst alcohol and drugs:” a qualitative study on the lived experiences of parental substance use among adults who developed substance use disorders …

F Meulewaeter, E De Schauwer, SSW De Pauw… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Experiencing parental substance use (PSU) has been associated with a heightened risk of
developing substance use disorders (SUDs) in offspring. The primary goal of this study was …

Smartphone Apps for Problem Gambling: a Review of Content and Quality

LY McCurdy, JM Loya, VR Hart-Derrick… - Current addiction …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Problem gambling can have profound consequences for
affected individuals, yet only a small proportion of people with problem gambling seek …

Changed substance use after psychedelic experiences among individuals in Canada

KF Boehnke, DJ Kruger, P Lucas - … Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2024 - Springer
We conducted a cross-sectional online survey of adults (n= 1639; 56.3% women) self-
reporting past or current psychedelic use. We investigated whether psychedelic use was …

Differences in addiction and recovery gains according to gender–gender barriers and specific differences in overall strengths growth

V Abreu Minero, D Best, L Brown, D Patton… - … , prevention, and policy, 2022 - Springer
Background There is growing evidence on the importance of a gendered understanding of
recovery. Gender differences have been reported in relation to the nature and extent of …

Overcoming the pains of recovery: the management of negative recovery capital during addiction recovery pathways

D Patton, D Best, L Brown - Addiction research & theory, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Recovery is experienced in both positive and negative ways and this paper attempts to
integrate the 'pains of desistance'approach into a recovery capital framework. Pains …

Turning points toward drug addiction recovery: Contextualizing underlying dynamics of change

L Bellaert, T Van Steenberghe… - Addiction Research & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Background A life course approach recognizes the role of turning points in adding twists and
turns in individuals' addiction recovery processes. The notion of certain key life events that …

Motivations for change in drug addiction recovery: Turning points as the antidotes to the pains of recovery

D Patton, D Best - Journal of Drug Issues, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Painful life events have been highlighted as being instrumental in promoting change during
drug addiction recovery. This paper attempts to integrate the 'pains of desistance'approach …

A cluster analysis of European life in recovery data: what are the typical patterns of recovery experience?

D Best, A Sondhi, D Patton, V Abreu… - … Prevention and Policy, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction There is little research around recovery pathways and how they cluster together
by individual and situational factors according to time in recovery. Method This paper uses a …

Sex differences in recovery capital gains post-incarceration

NL Bormann, AN Weber, B Miskle, S Arndt… - Substance use & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Background People with substance use disorders are highly prevalent in the carceral
system. Recovery capital (RC) is the resources available to an individual to initiate or …