| Autor: |
HIRSCHOVITS-GERZ, TANJA, PENNONEN, MARJO |
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Yhteiskuntapolitiikka; 2012, Vol. 77 Issue 5, p494-509, 16p |
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This article compares the views of the general population (n=740) and substance abuse professionals (n=520) in Finland about the prospects of recovering from various addictions with and without active treatment. The questionnaire data for the research were collected in 2007-2008 and analysed by statistical methods. The two groups had largely similar views. However professionals felt that online gaming, Internet, and prescription drug addictions were harder to overcome without help than did the general population, and they had greater faith in the efficacy of treatment. On the other hand professionals felt that recovery from cannabis addiction without help was easier than did the general population. Professionals had greater faith than lay people in the chances of recovering from prescription drug and behavioural addictions with the help of treatment. Being a treatment professional and gender had the most consistent effects on the assumed 'added value' of treatment. Women regarded treatment as more necessary for recovery than men in the case of all addictions, and professionals regarded it as more necessary than lay people in prescription drug and behavioural addictions. Overall addictions seemed to be divided in the minds of the respondents into two categories: those that were easy to overcome without outside help (online gaming, Internet and tobacco addictions) and those that were difficult to overcome without help (drugs, prescription medicines, alcohol). Both groups had high expectations of the efficacy of treatment in resolving substance addictions. The article concludes with a discussion of the potential societal causes and consequences of these views and expectations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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