SOC WORK 453: Exam 2: Recovery from Addiction

- Recovery is the context to achieve wellness. Not the process. - Process = active use to stopping to staying clean to living sover - Context = health, home, person, community

1) Home 2) Community 3) Health 4) Sense of purpose

- A stable living environment

- Structured living environments that involve testing, duties, restrictions, privileges and employment

- Structured living environment without the testing and restriction of a halfway house

- People that meet at a twelve step meeting looking for others to make a mutual agreement of a sober household.

- Relationships and social networks that provide support, friendship, love, and hope

Overcoming or managing one's disease, or symptoms. Making informed, healthy choices that support physical and emotional well-being.

Meaningful daily activities, such as a job, school, volunteerism, family care taking, or creative endeavors, and the independence, income, and resources to participate in society.

- 30 days to 1 year. - Risk of relapse decreases exponentially after that first year though.

-1 to 5 years

Greater than 5 years

- Recovery emerges from hope - Recovery is person-driven - Recovery occurs via many pathways - Recovery is holistic - Recovery is supported through relationship and social networks - Recovery is supported by addressing trauma - Recovery involves individual, family, and community strengths and responsibility.