Monday, October 15th, 2012
‘Natural recovery’ is a term used to describe recovery from addiction without the help of professionals. It’s a term that rather implies there’s something unnatural about the professional or even AA route. However, other terms that have been used are also problematic, given that they all embody an explanation of the phenomenon that is open to question. For example, Tuchfield (1981) was one of the first to describe what he called “spontaneous recovery”, although the recovery his alcohol dependent respondents described were generally the product of a sense of shame that had grown over a long period of time, even if the ultimate decision was sudden.
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Tags: addictive behaviour, Alcohol Dependence, assessing dependency, Boscloo, Christo, DSM IV, klingemann, maturing out, Najman, Natural recovery, NESDA, professional treatment, Professor Stephenson, recovery, self-change, spontaneous recovery, treatment strategy, Tuchfield
Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
A couple of weeks ago (16th August, on BBC3; “Russell Brand: From Addiction to Recovery”), Russell Brand launched a hard-hitting attack on conventional approaches to drug addiction: first, he lambasted the view of right wing tabloid commentators who favour the view that addicts recklessly and freely abuse drugs, and could as easily choose differently. And […]
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Tags: addiction, addiction committee, addictive behaviour, addictive substances, cognitive psychology, drug addiction, emotional craving, government, medical drugs, recovery, rehab, rehabilitation, research, Russell Brand, self-justification, self-licensing