Personal growth in substance abuse recovery

Alena Olivová
Alena Slezáčková ORCID logo

Abstract

There is a lot known about how drug use and addiction affect a person´s life – with both negative physical and psychosocial outcomes. When coping with adverse events some positive transformative changes can be shown and that should be the matter of our interest as well. This review aims to gather, describe and integrate the results of nine empirical studies focused on personal growth associated with recovery from addiction. We had found diverse theoretical approaches as well as different methodology and survey sample characteristics within studies, such as the difference in groups of substances abused by respondents, number of their relapses and treatments as well as the treatment programs they went through. Review findings show that recovery goes beyond abstinence. The studies agree on the importance of social support, perceiving recovery as an ongoing process of growth and an opportunity to start a new life or find meaning in life even though the perspectives of the researchers vary. The article points out the research gap in addiction treatment, which may encourage the clients to profit from their addict´s expe­riences, use them to support the recovery process, and boost their quality of life and personal growth.

https://doi.org/10.29364/epsy.393

(Fulltext in Czech)

Keywords

personal growth, addiction, narcotic drugs, recovery

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