Substance Use and the Role of Families. Results of a Cross-Country Study in Pakistan, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine
Lee J. Myshakivska O. Filimonova N. Pinchuk I. Yachnik Y. Chumak S. Altynbekov K. Muzafarov R. Cherchenko N. Asghar S. Ali S.A. Alyana S.I.
2022Sdruzeni SCAN
Adiktologie
2022#22Issue 268 - 81 pp.
BACKGROUND: In many countries families have rarely been involved in addressing treatment and interventions for family members with substance use disorders (SUDs). The aims of this study were to measure the influence of substance use on users’ family members and to evaluate what and if any interventions were conducted by and with family members in the three countries of Kazakhstan, Pakistan, and Ukraine. METHODS: A convenience sample approach was used to identify the involvement of families in the treatment and recovery process of a subject using substances and to provide country-specific data from Pakistan, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. RESULTS: The survey yielded 2174 respondents from the three countries, including 1099 responses from relatives of a subject who used or uses substances and 1075 from subjects who use or used psychoactive substances. In total, 47% of the relatives indicated that they did not receive treatment interventions and 87% believed that treatment could be an effective option to address the use of substances. CONCLUSIONS: A significant majority of the relatives in Pakistan, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine did not receive any therapeutic or other support while living with a subject with an SUD. Unsurprisingly, family members often regarded the best way to treat SUDs as being to isolate the subject. However, in all three countries most of the subjects with experience of substance use identified the family as the main factor that could prevent them from using substances.
Family Programmes , Interventions , Role of Family , Substance Use , Substance Use Disorder
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International Society of Substance Use Professionals, London, United Kingdom
International Society of Substance Use Professionals, Kyiv, Ukraine
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Military Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Institute of Psychiatry, Kyiv, Ukraine
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, University Clinic, Kyiv, Ukraine
Republican Scientific and Practical Centre of Mental Health, Almaty, Kazakhstan
New Life Rehab Centre, Pakistan
Poonch Medical College Rawalakot, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences Azad, Kashmir, Pakistan
Riphah International University, Department of Psychology, Faisalabad Campus, Pakistan
International Society of Substance Use Professionals
International Society of Substance Use Professionals
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Republican Scientific and Practical Centre of Mental Health
New Life Rehab Centre
Poonch Medical College Rawalakot
Riphah International University
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