ArticleNordisk alkohol- & narkotikatidskrift : NAT2019
Into the unknown: Treatment as a social arena for drug users' transition into a non-using life.
Article in Nordisk alkohol- & narkotikatidskrift : NAT, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Experiences of a lived experience recovery organisation for those in abstinence-based substance use recovery: a thematic analysis.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2025Article
- "A place without walls, only opportunities": personal accounts of attending Recovery Colleges in Norway.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Trust and collaboration between patients and staff in SUD treatment: A qualitative study of patients' reflections on inpatient SUD treatment four years after discharge.Nordisk alkohol- & narkotikatidskrift : NAT · 2022Article
- Desistance from crime following substance use treatment: the role of treatment retention, social network and self-control.BMC psychiatry · 2021Article
- Bridge over Troubled Water: Patients' Opportunities for Collective Participation in Substance Use Institutions through Research Circles.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Changes in clients' well-being (ORS) and state hope (SHS) during inpatient substance abuse treatment.Nordisk alkohol- & narkotikatidskrift : NAT · 2020Article
- Substance use disorder patients' expectations on transition from treatment to post-discharge period.Nordisk alkohol- & narkotikatidskrift : NAT · 2020Article
- "A Life More Ordinary" Processes of 5-Year Recovery From Substance Abuse. Experiences of 30 Recovered Service Users.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsFor people trying to stop using alcohol or other drugs (AOD), the process is often characterised by periods of abstinence followed by relapse into their previous drug-related way of life and subsequent re-entry into the treatment system. There is a call for greater attention to the
methodThe article takes on a social practice approach, in particular Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, "doxa" and field to analyse 17 in-depth interviews with Norwegian men and women seeking treatment for problems resulting from the use of drugs and/or alcohol.
resultsThe study shows that the support of professionals operates as transitional relations that can bridge the transformation from a drug-using to a drug-free life, by providing a social web of relations, positions, settings and activities. However, leaving treatment and establishing AOD-free practice involves moving into something unknown in the sense that there is no embodied, taken-for-granted knowledge about how to relate to a world where drug use is not the focal point of existence.
conclusionsThe process of change, then, involves being exposed to an existential feeling of maladjustment. To get beyond the feeling of maladjustment, and get into the
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