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Harm reduction and recovery: Two ideas that have reached maturity
Author(s) -
Miranda John
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.33144
Subject(s) - sobriety , anonymity , addiction , harm reduction , harm , alcoholics anonymous , maturity (psychological) , safer , drug , criminology , psychology , sociology , history , social psychology , psychiatry , medicine , computer security , computer science , developmental psychology , pathology , public health
The alcohol and drug problems field has its very own history of ideas. Each of these “ideas” arose to capture a change in how we thought about some aspect of the alcohol/drug landscape, and each has a complicated evolutionary history. My short list of the most important ideas that have enabled or inhibited our progress include addiction, disease, sobriety, drug war, anonymity and prohibition. Each of these is essentially a social construction that has changed over time and may be understood differently by different groups or in differing contexts.