Can anyone give me a website that discusses the chances for recovery for addicts? I have just now started to research this and was curious to know what percentage of addicts actually recover. I am living in such fear that this is going to kill my sister and I know that the death rate for addicts must be a high percentage. Also out of the percentage that recover what was the family involvement in the aid of that.. I am just looking for any info that may help me prepare for this long road... Thanks in advance for your help!!
Kristi
I hope someone else has a good web site refrence or info. This is the only study i could find. http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/.../full/187/5/421
it's not a USA study. It's a 33 year study. It's NOT recent either!. I've been looking to find what the TRUE long term recovery rate is i've yet to find a clear number answer. Here is a break down of this ONE study: 86 persons in the study:Forty-two per cent of the cohort had been abstinent for at least 10 years; 10% were taking methadone and were classified as addicted; and 22% had died. Eight percent of the cohort could not be located. I do know many studies have been done on AA.
http://www.orange-papers.org/orange...ectiveness.html
this is some info on AA "it is anti aa into". A 5% success rate is nothing more than the rate of spontaneous remission in alcoholics and drug addicts. That is, out of any given group of alcoholics or drug addicts, approximately 5% per year will just wise up, and quit killing themselves. They just get sick and tired of being sick and tired, and of watching their friends die. (And something between 1% and 3% of their friends do die annually, so that is a big incentive.) They often quit with little or no official treatment or help. Some actually detox themselves on their own couches, or in their own beds, or locked in their own closets. Often, they don't go to a lot of meetings. They just quit, all on their own, or with the help of a couple of good friends who keep them locked up for a few days while they go through withdrawal. A.A. and N.A. true believers insist that addicts can't successfully quit that way, but they do, every day.
I know with my own personal experiece the rate of recovery is rather low. That's not to say it can't/won't happen. There are hard facts most addicts relaspe. Family can not love, want, beg, plead, anyone clean. It is someting the addict must do for themself.Best advice for family is seeking self help for THEM not the addict!.
I quit on my own with methadone no meetings no family support OTHERS here have done the same. I can't answer if the rate is higher with support but, i could take a educated guess that it might be. .......And note that the "Harvard Medical School" says that the support of a good spouse is more important than that of a 12-Step group.
...people are about ten times as likely to change on their own as with the help of doctors, therapists, or self-help groups.
J. Gurion, American Health Magazine, March 1990.
My refrences are biased so hopefully someone else will have better data.
it's not a USA study. It's a 33 year study. It's NOT recent either!. I've been looking to find what the TRUE long term recovery rate is i've yet to find a clear number answer. Here is a break down of this ONE study: 86 persons in the study:Forty-two per cent of the cohort had been abstinent for at least 10 years; 10% were taking methadone and were classified as addicted; and 22% had died. Eight percent of the cohort could not be located. I do know many studies have been done on AA.
http://www.orange-papers.org/orange...ectiveness.html
this is some info on AA "it is anti aa into". A 5% success rate is nothing more than the rate of spontaneous remission in alcoholics and drug addicts. That is, out of any given group of alcoholics or drug addicts, approximately 5% per year will just wise up, and quit killing themselves. They just get sick and tired of being sick and tired, and of watching their friends die. (And something between 1% and 3% of their friends do die annually, so that is a big incentive.) They often quit with little or no official treatment or help. Some actually detox themselves on their own couches, or in their own beds, or locked in their own closets. Often, they don't go to a lot of meetings. They just quit, all on their own, or with the help of a couple of good friends who keep them locked up for a few days while they go through withdrawal. A.A. and N.A. true believers insist that addicts can't successfully quit that way, but they do, every day.
I know with my own personal experiece the rate of recovery is rather low. That's not to say it can't/won't happen. There are hard facts most addicts relaspe. Family can not love, want, beg, plead, anyone clean. It is someting the addict must do for themself.Best advice for family is seeking self help for THEM not the addict!.
I quit on my own with methadone no meetings no family support OTHERS here have done the same. I can't answer if the rate is higher with support but, i could take a educated guess that it might be. .......And note that the "Harvard Medical School" says that the support of a good spouse is more important than that of a 12-Step group.
...people are about ten times as likely to change on their own as with the help of doctors, therapists, or self-help groups.
J. Gurion, American Health Magazine, March 1990.
My refrences are biased so hopefully someone else will have better data.
Thanks for the post on that. I hope that all that are in reocvery stay there mainly for yourself but do understand that you have loved ones out there that love and want that for you as well.. I can say I don't know any of you that are here on that road. But I can assure you even with you being a stranger to me I wish, hope and pray that you make it through each and every new day without usuing and that you know that there are people out here like me that care about you and your recovery. It gives me strength and hope when I see you guys make it another day. It makes me believe that it can be done by you.. You guys are my reality that it CAN BE DONE!!! I am proud of anyone that has tried or attempted to overcome this crazy thing we know as addiction. Please keep on keeping on.. Your recovery in itself is a recovery for me.. I know that you can't do the path of recovery for anyone but yourself but just know that there are others out here that are pulling for you and are thankful that you are not one of those statics of the death rate among drug addicts. It really does give me hope to see you guys in recovery. I pray that one day I will be sitting here telling you all of my sisters or better yet having her tell you herself...
