Chemical substance abuse is a major problem affecting young people of all races, in particular teenagers, not only in South Africa but globally as well. Although this phenomenon continues to be a serious condition that impacts on teenagers’ growth, learning and relationships with their parents, there is limited knowledge-based research on the experiences, challenges and coping strategies of parents living with teenagers abusing chemical substances. A qualitative research approach was employed to explore, describe and contextualize the experiences, challenges and coping strategies of parents living with teenagers abusing chemical substances in Ramotse, Hammanskraal in Gauteng Province. The researcher used purposive and snowball sampling methods to draw the sample. Data was collected through the semi-structured interviews and analysed using Tesch’s eight steps (Creswell, 2009). Data was verified against four criteria developed by Guba and Lincoln’s model to test the trustworthiness of a qualitative research study. The ethical considerations adhered to throughout this study were informed consent, anonymity, confidentiality, debriefing of participants and management of information. The findings confirm that there is lack of support for parents living with teenagers abusing chemical substance. From the findings, recommendations for policy, education, practice and future research were made. The results were disseminated by means of a written research report to management of SANCA and the participants. / Social Work / M. A. (Social Work)

Heroin addicts are often misunderstood and stigmatised. The aim of this investigation was to provide the reader with a description of the life world of heroin addicts who seem unable to recover from their addiction. The phenomenological method was used in order to achieve the aim of this study. Themes which emerged were that heroin traps the addicts in a paradox - creating meaning for them and robbing them of it at the same time. They develop a personal love relationship with the heroin, which turns into an abusive relationship. Recovery holds no guarantees as the addicts experience the process of recovery as a never ending cycle. This study highlights the value of the phenomenological method in describing the life world of the heroin addict undergoing treatment. Recommendations are made which may be of value to the professional working with the heroin addict. / Social Work / M.A.(Social Science (Mental Health))

The purpose of the research, which shaped the research question, was exploring the social construction of cultural stories of substance abuse and the difference that God-stories can make in these circumstances. The research is about the difference that the positioning of the self in the biblical and Christ-stories, the stories of faith, can make in the construction of self-stories in the context of substance abuse. This study thus studied the social construction of self-stories embedded in God-stories in the context of a short-term rehabilitation programme for addiction. I had conversations with 12 participants in Ramot, a rehabilitation centre for alcohol and drug addiction in Parow, Cape Town in the year 2005. A narrative approach was followed, because it is particularly suited to exploring the interaction between stories of identity or self-stories, stories of faith or God-stories, and stories of the struggle with substance abuse. The concept of stories opens up issues and ideas that initially seem to be fixed „realities‟ to change, as alternative meanings can be applied and stories can be told differently in different contexts. This approach therefore correlates with people‟s lived experience. Stories as texts are constitutive of our worlds, but are open to re-visioning and editing. With regard to problematic stories, hope can thus be performed in telling stories differently (recognising different contexts) or in telling different stories (previously marginalised texts). The main body of the research is a theoretical consideration of the way self-stories, God-stories and the stories of a struggle with substance abuse are socially constructed. Particular attention is paid to the way in which self-stories are socially constructed, because that is the basis for the narrative approach adopted in the research. This includes the postmodern, social constructionist and poststructuralist emphasis on the discursive positioning of the self, with the alternative positionings that this makes possible. Religion/spirituality are explored as part of the narrative resources or context that contribute to the social construction of self-stories. For a believer, this relationship with God through biblical stories informs other relationships and influences the construction of the person‟s self-stories.This research report therefore also reflects a critical interaction between the contemporary situation in respect of the struggle with substance abuse and the stories of the Christian tradition for the sake of improved praxis by the faith community. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / D. Th.

M.A. (Psychology) / It is generally accepted that the management and treatment of individuals addicted to chemical substances or drugs entail challenges for the professions involved in drug contexts. In this dissertation a number of therapeutic systems in drug contexts are explored in aim of the treatment of people with drug addiction. In the literature survey it is indicated that the manner in which therapeutic intervensions are operationalized in drug treatment practices, are influenced by the organization's theoretical-philosophical orientation with regard to therapeutic treatment modes. This aspect is examined in the study on the basis of a critical discussion of the perspectives of the medical model and an alternative model, namely the adaptive model, concerning the therapeutic management of people addicted to drugs. It is further established from the literature that people with drug addiction problems are often treated within the boundaries of a therapeutic community and that various therapeutic interventions, namely individual psychotherapy, family therapy and group therapy, are also implemented in this therapeutic context. The present study specifically concentrates on an alternative approach concerning the therapeutic modes of treatment for individuals with drug addiction. One such an approach, as discussed in this study, entails that therapeutic approaches regarding people addicted to drugs, progress from a causal-theoretical manner of defining these people (for instance the view that individuals addicted to drugs have a progressive disease and that they are unable to take responsibility for their behaviour) to an approach based on the principles of interactional therapy and motivational milieu therapy {for instance the idea that such individuals have the ability to conduct their interpersonal relationships

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Its specific objectives are: to identify the specifics of the drug addict's entry into a treatment institution; investigate the demand of destinations in the accommodation of the route; place the management mode of the institutional place in clinical practice with drug addicts; and articulate the biases of the meeting - between drug addict and institution - with the discourse in vogue in post-modernity. The core of the research is to determine the natural effects of psychoanalytical listening at the institutional level, in favor of subversion of the subject. If to the addicted the drug participate as a dismissal of the subject, to be presented pasted, speaking of himself, only from his use of drugs, the way forward is to offer words. The direction of the treatment, to fetch hear the toxic function of the drug, rather than solely to mind with the use or non-use of a psychoactive substance, can enable the guy who works with his addiction to drugs find room for a significant slide, and that can be placed in work your enjoyment so. Therefore, an engaged institution in the addiction clinic needs to be doubly warned of its function: First, dodge the traffic in line with the institution's postmodern principles, which exalts excess joy and erasing the boundaries ; and second, should know that only to the price of standing in the place of the impossible that it appears as a possible place addressing. The survey was conducted in RAID Institute, an NGO, following the psychoanalytic in its clinical and institutional management and works in prevention and treatment of people of both sexes who voluntarily choose to join it because of problems related to abuse or addiction to alcohol and other drugs. Participated in this research, drug addicts in treatment, fully housed in the institution. Through interviews we tried to go the way that evokes addiction, and reflect the specificities of this Clinic. In conjunction with the cases it is possible to recognize the unique significance and representation of drug use in drug addiction, one of the ways of dealing with the discomfort to invest in toxic as real solution to the subjectivity. Such shifts promoted by the person who is named as abuse drug addict and brings his drug use and volunteer in the hospital, during the course can consent to realize the role that the toxic occupies in his psychic life, and get involved in that. The willingness in treatment is a fundamental ethical component, in that it only from the availability of each subject will be possible to build new itineraries for your own desire. / Nesta pesquisa, a toxicomania não é sinônimo de dependência de uma substância psicoativa, e sim, é compreendida como uma relação intensa e exclusiva, em que o uso de drogas se estabelece também como uma função na vida psìquica. Este trabalho se propõe analisar os deslizamentos na demanda de tratamento por parte do toxicômano, ao longo do internamento voluntário. Tem como objetivos especìficos: identificar as especificidades da entrada do toxicômano em uma instituição de tratamento; investigar os destinos da demanda no percurso do internamento; situar o modo de manejo do lugar institucional na prática clìnica com toxicômanos; e articular os vieses do encontro - entre toxicômano e instituição - com o discurso em voga na pós-modernidade. O cerne da investigação é averiguar os efeitos singulares da escuta psicanalìtica no âmbito institucional, em favor da subversão do sujeito. Se para o toxicômano a droga participa como uma destituição do sujeito, ao apresentar-se colado, falando de si, somente a partir do uso que faz da droga, a via indicada consiste em ofertar palavras. A direção do tratamento, ao buscar ouvir a função tóxica da droga, ao invés de tão somente ocupar-se com o uso ou não uso de uma substância psicoativa, pode possibilitar que o sujeito que atua com sua toxicomania encontre espaço para um deslize significante, e que seja possìvel colocar em trabalho o seu modo de gozo. Portanto, uma instituição engajada na clìnica da toxicomania precisa estar duplamente advertida de sua função: primeiro, esquivar-se do modelo de instituição consonante com os princìpios pós-modernos, que exaltam o excesso de gozo e o apagamento do limite; e segundo, deve saber que é só ao preço de conseguir suportar o lugar do impossìvel que ela configura-se como um lugar possìvel de endereçamento. A pesquisa foi realizada no Instituto RAID, uma Organização Não Governamental, que segue a orientação psicanalìtica em seu manejo clìnico-institucional e trabalha na prevenção e tratamento de pessoas de ambos os sexos que, voluntariamente, optam por acompanhamento devido a problemas relacionados ao uso abusivo ou dependência de álcool e outras drogas. Participaram desta pesquisa, toxicômanos em tratamento, albergados integralmente na instituição. Por meio de entrevistas buscou-se percorrer os sentidos que a toxicomania evoca, e refletir as especificidades dessa Clìnica. Na articulação com os casos é possìvel reconhecer a singular significação e representação do uso de drogas na toxicomania, um dos modos de lidar com o mal-estar ao investir no tóxico como solução real para a subjetivação. Tais deslocamentos promovidos pelo sujeito que se nomeia toxicômano e traz como queixa seu uso de drogas pode no curso do internamento voluntário consentir em perceber a função que o tóxico ocupa em sua vida psìquica, e implicar-se nisso. A voluntariedade no tratamento é um componente ético fundamental, na medida em que, somente a partir da disponibilidade de cada sujeito será possìvel a construção de novos itinerários para o seu próprio desejo.

The purpose of this study is to assess the aftercare needs of women who have completed substance abuse treatment.

Using both qualitative and quantitative research designs, this study focused on the knowledge of Children Protective Services (CPS) social workers for identifying Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) risk factors in their clients, and the impact that these AOD issues have on the child welfare system in San Bernardino County, California.

Syftet med uppsatsen var att undersöka mäns erfarenheter och upplevelser av att växa upp med en missbrukande förälder som har ett substans- eller spelmissbruk. I denna kvalitativa uppsats har fyra självbiografier analyserats genom tematisk analys. Resultatet för uppsatsen påvisar att männen som barn tog en föräldraroll på olika sätt i sina respektive familjer. Vidare visar resultatet att männen som barn hittade olika sätt för att få en paus från sin vardag. Det som även var gemensamt för barnen var att de hade sina missbrukande föräldrar i fokus, vilket i sin tur ledde till att deras egna känslor och behov hamnade i skymundan. Resultatet av uppsatsen påvisade även att det uppstod konsekvenser för dem som barn när de växte upp med en missbrukande förälder. Dessa följder omfattade både emotionella och praktiska aspekter. / The purpose of this study was to examine men´s experiences of growing up with an addicted parent who is a substance or gamble addict. In this qualitative study, four autobiographies were analysed by thematic analysis. The results show that the men as children was given a parental role in their families because of the circumstances with an addicted parent. Further, the results show that the men as children found different strategies to get a pause from their daily life. The children always had their addicted parent in focus which led to their own feelings and needs being shaded. The results in this study also demonstrated that growing up with an addicted parent led to emotional and practical consequences.

Thesis (MPH.) -- University of Limpopo, 2021 / PURPOSE OR OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to investigate factors that contribute to the relapse of substance abusers post rehabilitation at South African National Council On Alcoholism And Drug Dependence (SANCA) Polokwane. METHOD: A quantitative research method or approach, and a descriptive research design were employed respectively to conduct the study. Data was collected using group-administered questionnaires / surveys amongst substance abusers who relapsed post rehabilitation at the SANCA, and a total number of sixty-one (61) respondents at the centre responded to the questionnaires. FINDINGS: Findings revealed that personal factors that predisposed the relapse of substance abusers post rehabilitation include lack of coping mechanism; less committed and motivated towards staying clean or sober; having a craving for drugs; challenged with too many triggers; lack of believe in themselves; thinking they could deal with their emotions by using drugs; thinking they could be able to control my use; community members still look down on them for using drugs; peer pressure from peer group; easily influenced by others; significant relationship in their lives ending; social group still abusing drugs; finding it difficult to avoid social gathering; lack of financial support; feeling lonely and being bored. Findings also indicated that substance abuser receive sufficient support from their family. On the contrary, however, findings further show that respondents have indicated that they receive poor from their friends, community members, peers and the rehabilitation centre attended. CONCLUSION: The study successfully identified, and discussed diverse causes or factors that contribute or influence relapse amongst substance abusers post rehabilitation at SANCA, as listed above. Furthermore, also assessing the availability of social support systems post rehabilitation.

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