A walk between the line: The re-integration experiences of 1O rehabilitated shabu addicts

• Main Authors: Aguilera, Rayvan Ian T., Chan, Clinton G., Palermo, Roma L.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2000
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/11672
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study is about the Re-integration Experiences of 10 Rehabilitated Shabu Addicts. The re-integration back to society after being a full time in-patient in the rehab, drug-free. An unstructured in-depth interview was utilized in this cross case analysis, to capture the experiences of the individuals from a Therapeutic Community Rehabilitation Program and a Narcotics Anonymous Rehabilitation Program. The experiences of the rehabilitated addict towards the Family, Friends, Occupation and Self are the interest of this study. Results show that attitudes before re-entry were responsibility, self-focus, self-awareness, consciousness of implications, here and now and desire for improvement. Themes during their re-integration were: self-improvement, happiness, isolation, sadness, regret, anger, gradual acceptance, altruism, serenity, longings and conscious of consequences. Re-integration was made easier because of their motivation to have better family relationships and pre-occupation in work. But the family also made re-entry difficult by doubting and accepting them very gradually. So to be able to stay sober they worked harder, stayed with recovering friends, isolated drugging friends and displaced their drug addiction toward other forms of addiction (E.g. eating, playing, smoking, etc.).