How to Enhance the Motivation for Drug Detoxification: Consciousness Guidance and Behaviour Restriction of Family Intergenerational Ethics.

Pei Hong,Shengnan Li,Quanyang Deng,Yanping Yu

doi:10.3390/ijerph19010366

Abstract

Assisting substance users to recover from the behaviour of drug addiction and maintain long-term rehabilitation is a long and complicated process, in which the motivation to undergo drug rehabilitation plays a decisive role. So far, the cultural connotation of family and its mechanism of promoting behavioural change of substance users have not been fully explored. Through in-depth interviews with 15 drug rehabilitants, among which there were 7 women and 8 men, it is found that the motivation for drug rehabilitation is stimulated under the guidance and restriction of family ethics based on obligation and responsibility, which is mainly reflected in the longitudinal intergenerational responsibility. On the one hand, negative consequences such as intergenerational liability deficit and reputation damage lead substance users to reflect on ethical values. On the other hand, disciplines such as intergenerational responsibility and obligation and mutual assistance can correct the actual behaviour of substance users in ethical practice. In contrast to Western countries, which focus on external environmental factors such as family function, family relationships and family support, the motivation for drug rehabilitation in China places more emphasis on their identity and role as family members and corresponding responsibilities, which provides inspiration for developing social work services for substance users from family cultural norms.

Highlights

More than 130 countries and regions are faced with the problem of drug consumption, and more than 170 countries and regions are faced with the problem of drug cultivation and trafficking [1]
What lies behind these seemingly accidental events/situations is the power of social norms of family intergenerational ethics; it rekindles their sense of intergenerational responsibility, which has been concealed by their craving for drug consumption, and they are willing to make changes
Our findings indicated family ethics led to cognition and internalization at the value level, and to constraints and norms at the practice level, which enabled substance users to eliminate the influence of elements that do not conform to the requirements of family ethics, and place the focus of life and the support of value on the responsibility within the family, so that they could make up their minds to put an end to their drug use and return to society

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Introduction

More than 130 countries and regions are faced with the problem of drug consumption, and more than 170 countries and regions are faced with the problem of drug cultivation and trafficking [1]. The number of drug users in the world currently exceeds 200 million, and the number of drug-related deaths reaches 200,000 every year [2]. We have to face the global problem of “relapse after drug detoxification”. A large number of drug users return to taking drugs after treatment; this is the most prominent problem in substance use treatment in almost all drug-infested countries and one of the major obstacles in the fight against drugs [4]. China has made substantial progress in the prevention and control of drug abuse in recent years

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