Recovery as a minor practice.

Area of Science:

• Social Sciences
• Psychology
• Public Health

Background:

• Current research on addiction recovery often relies on interpretive or reflective knowledge practices.
• There's a need for interdisciplinary methods that better connect researchers, treatment services, and individuals in recovery.
• Sociological contributions to addiction recovery research involve qualitative, quantitative, and deconstructive methods with varying strengths and limitations.

Purpose of the Study:

• To investigate the potential of interdisciplinary research for generating collective knowledge in addiction recovery.
• To explore how researchers can participate in knowledge production and develop new collaborative methods.
• To reconfigure the roles of experts, methods, and participants through an interdisciplinary lens.

Main Methods:

• Evaluation of methodological debates in academic, professional, and treatment settings.
• Analysis of sociological research methods in addiction recovery.
• Description of a collaborative research project involving sociologists, an artist, and individuals in recovery, utilizing cinema-based workshops.

Main Results:

• Interdisciplinary collaboration can foster collective knowledge practices over interpretive ones.
• Viewing recovery as a 'minor practice' offers new ways to reconfigure research roles and collaborations.
• Cinema-based workshops demonstrated the effects of an interdisciplinary methodology in understanding recovery.

Conclusions:

• Interdisciplinary research offers a powerful framework for advancing addiction recovery studies.
• Adopting a 'minor practice' perspective can lead to innovative, collaborative approaches in recovery-oriented practice and policy.
• This study provides a distinctive interdisciplinary model for rethinking addiction recovery.