A new study calls to call substance abuse a "illness" makes people less likely to ask for help
He made people feel that people feel like "less agency".
When people say that "Dependency is a disease, "The goal is to encourage sympathy for people with substance abuse problems, as well as educate those who do not understand why someone can not just notstop drinking. But, according to a new study published in theSocial and Clinical Psychology Journal, describing the dependence as a disease can have the surprising and unexpected effect of making people fighting with less dependence likely to ask for help.
For their research, psychology teachers at the University of North Carolina State divided more than 200 men and women with substance abuse problems in two groups. About half of them received the message that addiction was a "illness" and said how physicallymodifies their brain chemistry overtime. The other half has received a "growth growth message" that emphasized that various factors can contribute to dependency and that there are many ways to combat it.
"We wanted to see if an alternative message aimed at changing this state of mind could affect how people with problems of using the substance considered themselves dependency"Jeni Burnette, a professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina State and co-author of the study, said in aPress release.
The researchers found that they since the "growth growth message" seemed to feelmore confident About their ability to break their dependence and more likely to seek treatment than those who have been responsible for thinking about this as a disease.
"When we started talking about dependency as a disease, the goal was to reduce stigma and encourage treatment," saidSarah DesmaraisAssociate Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina State and Co-author of the study. "It worked, to a certain extent, but an unforeseen by-product was that some people suffering from dependence felt like as an agency; people with illnesses have no control over them."
It seems that if someone thinks about their dependence asIncurable diseaseThey may be more likely to think that it's just something they will have to live with, as opposed to an obstacle that, enormously, they can overcome.
According to Desmarais, these conclusions are "good news" and will be useful to drug addiction specialists. The results of the study are also beneficial for those who know someone who struggled with an addiction and do not know what to say - orDo not say-To be the most useful.
"Overall, our conclusions support the remoteness of messenger on dependence only as a disease," said Desmarais. "It's more complicated than that. Instead, the conclusion suggests that it would be more useful to talk about the many different reasons that people become dependent." And for more things on how to help people in crisis, readPeople who use these words can suffer from depression.
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