With God's Help I Can Do It: Crack Users’ Formal and Informal Recovery Experiences in El Salvador
Autor: | Lorena Rivas de Mendoza, Gloria Bodnar, Carmen E. Guevara, Karla Rodriguez, Julia Dickson-Gomez, A. Michelle Corbett |
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Rok vydání: | 2010 |
Předmět: |
Health (social science)
Medical staff media_common.quotation_subject Faith healing Medicine (miscellaneous) Developing country Cocaine related disorders Health Services Accessibility Article Interviews as Topic Cocaine-Related Disorders mental disorders El Salvador Humans Medicine Developing Countries media_common Medical treatment business.industry Addiction Religion and Medicine Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Public relations Health Surveys Psychiatry and Mental health Natural recovery Crack Cocaine business Developed country Social psychology Faith Healing |
Zdroj: | Substance Use & Misuse. 46:426-439 |
ISSN: | 1532-2491 1082-6084 |
Popis: | Crack use has increased dramatically in El Salvador in the last few decades. As with other developing countries with sudden onsets of drug problems, El Salvador has few medical staff trained in addictions treatment. Little research has examined drug users' attempts to reduce or abstain from drug use in countries where government-regulated formal medical treatment for drug addiction is scarce. This paper uses qualitative and quantitative data gathered from active crack users to explore their formal and informal strategies to reduce or abstain from drugs, and compares these with components of informal and formal treatment in developed countries. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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