The role of reflective consequences in developing recovery capital for the recovering substance abuser population of Tehran city

Abstract

The aim of this study is to explore the hidden dimensions of recovery capital as utilized among a sample of the recovery population of Tehran city. This qualitative study involved a sample of 27 available people, including different groups of recovering drug users and experts. In the semi-structured face-to-face interview, the focus was on the dimensions of recovery capital and contributing factors to recovery. The criteria proposed by Guba and Lincoln were applied for trustworthiness of the research data. After thematic analysis of the data, a total of 310 codes were identified. The theme extracted is the concept of reflective consequences of recovery capital, which has two main categories of passive (altruism, fear of losing existing possessions, fear of repeating past experiences) and persuasion (internal and external). The reflective consequences are the reproducers of recovery capital and can appear at all three individual, micro and mezo levels.

Keywords:

• Recovery capital
• substance abuse
• reflective consequence
• recovering population

Acknowledgment

We would like to express my special thanks of gratitude to all of participants.

Declaration of interest

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest regarding the publication of this article.