Self-Reported Sobriety Labels: Perspectives from Alumni of Inpatient Addiction Treatment.

IF 5.1 Q1 SUBSTANCE ABUSE
Substance Abuse and Rehabilitation Pub Date : 2024-07-24 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI:10.2147/SAR.S470780
Jessica L Bourdon, Sidney Judson, Taylor Fields, Sabrina Verdecanna, Nehal P Vadhan, Jon Morgenstern
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Background: There is a lack of consensus in the addiction field as to how to refer to alumni of residential treatment who no longer use substances or who reduce their use. In the literature, this label and broader identity are typically discussed in technical (amount and frequency of use) or social terms (environment and social network changes).

Objective: The current paper seeks to simplify the discussion by focusing on personal labels without complex technical or social considerations. Alumni of an inpatient addiction treatment facility were asked how they refer to themselves regarding their sobriety status post-discharge.

Methods: Forty-nine patients were contacted 3 months post-discharge from a residential inpatient addiction treatment (men = 67%; Mage = 47.75 years). The patients completed a post-discharge assessment that was conducted by a trained research assistant over a 20-minute video call. The current study focused on a "sobriety label" measure in which patients indicated what they want to be called. Patients also explained why they chose their answer in an open-ended question.

Results: Most patients identified as in recovery (n = 29; 59.18%) followed by a sober person (n = 7; 14.29%) and four other responses. No alum selected the in remission option, which is notably a common way to refer to patients who no longer use substances.

Conclusion: The current study adds a critical patient/alumni perspective to the existing body of literature and serves as a call to action for researchers to add a similar "sobriety label" measure to future assessments, studies, and batteries in effort to bring consistency to the labels, definitions, and identities that are published. This methodology of understanding how this population identifies will create uniformity in future literature and decrease the stigma surrounding addiction.

自我描述的清醒标签:住院戒毒治疗校友的观点。
背景:对于如何称呼不再使用药物或减少使用药物的住院治疗校友,成瘾领域尚未达成共识。在文献中,这一标签和更广泛的身份通常是以技术术语(使用量和频率)或社会术语(环境和社会网络的变化)来讨论的:本文试图简化讨论,将重点放在个人标签上,而不考虑复杂的技术或社会因素。我们询问了一家住院戒毒机构的校友在出院后如何称呼自己的戒毒状况:我们联系了从住院戒毒治疗机构出院 3 个月后的 49 名患者(男性 = 67%;年龄 = 47.75 岁)。患者完成了出院后评估,评估由一名训练有素的研究助理通过 20 分钟的视频通话进行。本次研究的重点是 "清醒标签 "测量,患者在测量中表示他们希望被称为什么。患者还在一个开放式问题中解释了他们选择自己答案的原因:大多数患者认为自己处于恢复期(29 人;59.18%),其次是清醒的人(7 人;14.29%)和其他四个回答。没有校友选择 "缓解 "选项,而 "缓解 "显然是指不再使用药物的患者:当前的研究为现有文献增添了一个重要的患者/校友视角,并呼吁研究人员采取行动,在未来的评估、研究和电池中添加类似的 "清醒标签 "措施,努力使公布的标签、定义和身份保持一致。通过这种方法来了解这一人群的身份识别方式,将为未来的文献提供统一性,并减少围绕成瘾的污名化。
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