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Narcotics Anonymous participation and changes in substance use and social support
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posted on 2002-01-01, 00:00 authored by John ToumbourouJohn Toumbourou, M Hamilton, A U'ren, P Stevens-Jones, G StoreyIn Victoria (a southern Australian state) in 1995, Narcotics Anonymous had a small but growing membership providing an opportunity to study the early experience of new self-help members. Ninety-one new members were interviewed and 62 (68%) were reinterviewed after 12 months. Three measures of self-help participation were examined: service role involvement, step work, and stable meeting attendance. Lower prior involvement in treatment services and greater participation in self-help predicted subsequent self-help participation. Higher levels of secondary school education predicted service role involvement and longer periods in stable meeting attendance. Higher self-help participation through the 12 months prior to follow-up was associated with lower levels of hazardous alcohol use and higher emotional support at reinterview. Multivariate regression analysis suggested stable self-help meeting attendance and step work continued to predict reductions in hazardous alcohol use and improvements in social support, after controlling for a range of alternative predictors.
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Journal of substance abuse treatmentVolume
23Issue
1Pagination
61 - 66Publisher
Elsevier Science Inc.Location
Philadelphia, Pa.Publisher DOI
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0740-5472eISSN
1873-6483Language
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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