Recovery and desistance: what the emerging recovery movement in the alcohol and drug area can learn from models of desistance from offending

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 1-10

  Best, David ^a   Irving, Jamie ^a   Albertson, Kathy ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Addiction; desistance; labelling; recovery; social identity; stigma

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992315677     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16066359.2016.1185661     Document Type: Article

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