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  • Sociology of health and illness
  • Addiction studies
  • Qualitative research methodologies

Background:

  • Recovery from alcohol and other drugs (AOD) is a significant area of research and policy.
  • Existing research often focuses on AOD recovery as a policy, overlooking its daily, practical manifestations.
  • Service users and workers engage in diverse, daily practices of recovery not fully captured by current sociological studies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the varied epistemological, methodological, and policy practices in empirical studies of AOD recovery.
  • To shift focus from AOD recovery as a policy to recovery as a daily practice and complex healing process.
  • To explore the social, temporal, spatial, and affective dimensions of practicing recovery.

Main Methods:

  • Practice-oriented study of recovery as a complex process of healing.
  • Analysis of empirical studies on recovery from alcohol and other drugs (AOD).
  • Focus on routine aspects and ambivalences in the practice and research of recovery.

Main Results:

  • Recovery from alcohol and other drugs (AOD) is characterized by infinite, daily manifestations by service users and workers.
  • Framing recovery as a social, temporal, spatial, and affective practice reveals its complexity.
  • Empirical engagements with recovery highlight ambivalences in both the practice and its research methods.

Conclusions:

  • Sociological research can advance understanding of illness and wellbeing by studying recovery as a practice.
  • Recognizing the ambivalences in recovery practices and research expands its conceptualization.
  • A practice-oriented approach offers new directions for studying recovery from alcohol and other drugs (AOD).