Risk, resilience, and natural recovery: a model of recovery from alcohol abuse for Alaska Natives

Addiction - Tập 103 Số 2 - Trang 205-215 - 2008
Gerald V. Mohatt1, Stacy M. Rasmus1, Lisa Rey Thomas2, James Allen1, Kelly L. Hazel3, G. Alan Marlatt2
1University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA,
2University of Washington, USA and
3Metropolitan State University USA

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ABSTRACTAim  The People Awakening (PA) study explored an Alaska Native (AN) understanding of the recovery process from alcohol abuse and consequent sobriety.Design  PA utilized a cross‐sectional, qualitative research design and community‐based participatory research methods.Setting and participants  The study included a state‐wide convenience sample of 57 participants representing all five major AN groups: Aleut/Alutiiq, Athabascan, Inupiaq, Yup'ik/Cup'ik and Tlingit/Haida/Tsimshian. Participants were nominated and self‐identified as being alcohol‐abstinent at least five years following a period of problem drinking.Measurements  Open‐ended and semistructured interviews gathered extensive personal life histories. A team of university and community co‐researchers analyzed narratives using grounded theory and consensual data analysis techniques.Findings  A heuristic model of AN recovery derived from our participants' experiences describes recovery as a development process understood through five interrelated sequences: (i) the person entered into a reflective process of continually thinking over the consequences of his/her alcohol abuse; (ii) that led to periods of experimenting with sobriety, typically, but not always, followed by repeated cycling through return to drinking, thinking it over, and experimenting with sobriety; culminating in (iii) a turning point, marked by the final decision to become sober. Subsequently, participants engaged in (iv) Stage 1 sobriety, active coping with craving and urges to drink followed for some participants, but not all, by (v) Stage 2 sobriety, moving beyond coping to what one participant characterized as ‘living life as it was meant to be lived.Conclusions  The PA heuristic model points to important cultural elements in AN conceptualizations of recovery.

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Addiction

Tập 103 Số 2

205-215

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