Overcoming the pains of recovery: The management of negative recovery capital during addiction recovery pathways
Abstract:
Pains experienced as a result of negative recovery capital are often thought to stimulate motivations for positive behavioural change, usually through a ‘rock bottom’ type moment. Whilst recovery capital and barriers to recovery have been explored in the literature, conceptualizing these as push and pull factors, and exploring their dynamic interaction, especially at distinct phases of recovery has not.
To fill these gaps, the authors use the life narratives of 30 people in recovery to explore how the pains of recovery (push factors) alongside different forms of recovery...