CIRCLES OF RECOVERY Self-Help Organizations for Addictions

Acknowledgements 1. Definitions, scope, and origin of the health-related self-help group movement 2. An international tour of addiction-related mutual help organizations 3. Does self-help group participation produce positive substance abuse, psychiatric, and medical outcomes? 4. A different perspective on change in self-help organizations: spirituality, identity, life stories, friendship networks, and politicization 5. Government, health care organization, and clinical interactions with self-help organizations Epilogue: summing up, moving forward References Index.

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