Opiate-addicted parents in methadone treatment: long-term recovery, health, and family relationships.
Author(s): Skinner ML, Haggerty KP, Fleming CB, Catalano RF, Gainey RR
Affiliation(s): Social Development Research Group, 9725 3rd Ave. NE, Suite 401, Seattle, WA 98115, USA. skinnm@u.washington.edu
Publication date & source: 2011-01, J Addict Dis., 30(1):17-26.
Publication type: Randomized Controlled Trial
Few studies follow the lives of opiate-addicted parents. The authors examined a 12-year follow-up of 144 parents in methadone treatment and their 3- to 14-year-old children. Parent mortality was high. Among survivors, drug use and treatment, incarceration, residential and family disruptions, and health problems were common. Moderate and long-term recovery were associated with consistent methadone treatment, further education, employment, and fewer relationship disruptions. Earlier depression, deviant friends, and poor coping skills predicted continued drug problems. Thus, interventions should include treatment for depression and build skills for avoiding and refusing drugs, coping with stress, and maintaining recovery-supportive friendships.
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