Abstinence-Specific Social Support
Will changing your social network help, you stop risky behavior or even adopt healthy behaviors? The answer is, “Yes.”
Drug injectors with more frequent social contacts with non-injectors engaged in lower levels of injecting risk behavior. When researchers looked at social networks before and after quitting, they found that those who quit had a significant change in the composition of their social network.
Social support for abstinence promotes abstinence among persons with substance use disorders, and personal investment in abstinence-specific social support is seen as the best predictor of recovery from substance use. This support is often gained through mutual aid societies (e.g., 12 Step, Celebrate Recovery, or Rational Recovery), but research shows that engaging in multiple networks can have an even greater effect.
Course Syllabus
| .1. Opposite of Addiction is Connection | ||
| .2. Social Determinants of Health | ||
| .2.1. SDOH vs. Medical Model | ||
| .2.2. Healthy People 2030: SDOH | ||
| .3. Social Model Ecosystems | ||
| .3.1. Ecosystem Stability | ||
| .3.2. Social-Community Model | ||
| .4. Sense of Community | ||
| .4.1. Perceived Sense of Community Scale | ||
| .4.2. Brief Sense of Community Scale | ||
| .5. Social Networks | ||
| .5.1. Abstinence-Specific Social Support | ||
| .5.2. Multiple Group Membership | ||
| .5.3. Multiple Dimensional Networks | ||
| .5.4. Personal vs "Whole" Networks | ||
| .5.5. Beneficial Characteristics of Social Networks | ||
| .5.6. Health Benefits of Social Networks | ||
| .6. Social vs Clinical Model | ||
| .6.1. Environment | ||
| .6.2. Staff | ||
| .6.3. Authority | ||
| .6.4. Recovery Orientation | ||
| .6.5. Governance | ||
| .6.6. Community Orientation | ||
| .7. Quiz: Social Model |