The book examines the relationship between family resilience and recovery from substance use disorders. It presents information on etiology of substance use disorders within the family system as well as new research on resilience in addiction recovery. The book facilitates the development of evidence-based resilience practices, programs, and policies for those working or dealing with families and addiction. Key topics addressed include: Protecting workers from opioid misuse and addiction. Neuroscience-informed psychoeducation and training for opioid use disorder. New models for training health care providers. Role of families in recovery capital. Family Resilience and Recovery from Opioids and Other Addictions is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians and related professionals in family studies, public health, and clinical psychology and all interrelated disciplines, including behavioral health, social work, and psychiatry.

Fostering Resilience for the Family in Recovery: A Guide to Helping You and Your Loved One Get Out of the Swamp of Substance Abuse and Addiction. This book is a guide to help family members navigate successful recovery from substance abuse, addiction and codependency issues. Learn how you can best support your loved one to achieve a successful recovery. Substance abuse and drug dependency impact the mental health of the entire family. If you don't know what to do to help your loved one or you're feeling anxious, angry, scared, or overwhelmed, you are not alone, and you and your family can recover. In this family recovery book, Dr. KJ Foster teaches family members and other loved ones how to stop the vicious cycle and get out of the swamp of addiction, and ot only how to get out of the swamp, but how to stay out. Dr. Foster shares both personal and professional experiences of successful recovery, and a formula for recovery that can enable you and your family to become stronger, healthier, and more resilient. It may not seem possible to you right now. You may even despair that you, your loved one and your family may never recover. Yet, it is possible! There's hope for full recovery and it's possible for you and your family to become better and stronger than you ever were before the substance abuse.Dr. Foster shares key elements for a successful recovery, and information that is essential for family members who are seeking knowledge on how to best support their loved one. Everyone in the family is impacted by the substance abuse and everyone in the family is in need of their own education, support and recovery.This book provides it all, along with a personal plan of action that you can start to implement today.Recovery Changes Everything!"Dr. KJ Foster's book will blow you away. Fostering Resilience for the Family in Recovery is a game changing, life changing amazing resource tool for families whose loved ones are struggling and in the throes of addiction. I couldn't put the book down. It was like a waterfall of invaluable information kept coming over me wave after wave, page after page, chapter after chapter. So many amazing resources and tools for families. Dr. Foster's words and wisdom come from her own riveting and heartbreaking personal experiences with her own addiction and trauma and those of her family. This is not meant to be a feel-good book, but is a breakthrough book that is extremely effective and will literally change the course of people's lives for the better. Dr. Foster gives you a no-nonsense, first-hand view of what works realistically, practically, therapeutically, and clinically. The highest compliment I can pay Dr. Foster's book is it is truth. It may be hard truth, it may be some truth that we don't want to hear, but it is absolutely truth that we need for the benefit of our addicted loved ones and most importantly the benefit of ourselves and our families future happiness and success. Dr. Foster doesn't just tell you what the issues and problems are, she shows you how to resolve them and fix them! If you want to get out of the "treacherous swamp" of addiction, read this book. It is a life changing book and has my highest recommendation and endorsement." Jack Alan Levine - Addiction Expert, Speaker, Author of "My Addict Your Addict" and "Addiction and Recovery Handbook."

Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.

This doctoral study focuses on a relational approach to recovery as an addition to the dominant individualized interpretations of addiction recovery. It explores the (enabling or disabling) role of social networks and broader societal contexts in which recovery processes are embedded, without disregarding the deeply personal nature of addiction recovery in terms of building a meaningful life. This dissertation is based on the Recovery Pathways (REC-PATH) research project, a longitudinal and multi-country cohort study designed to map pathways to drug addiction recovery. Rooted in the policy, quantitative and qualitative research phases of the REC-PATH project, this study uncovers contextual dynamics at play in addiction recovery. Grounded in first-person accounts of recovery from drug use problems, we critically investigate the complex and ambiguous roles that interpersonal relationships, life circumstances, support services and structural factors might play throughout recovery processes. Conceptualizing addiction recovery as a relational process of change has implications for how practice, policy and research are organized. This dissertation thus provides tools for students, practitioners and policymakers who want to contribute to developing recovery-supportive environments that include attention to the contextual dimensions of recovery.

The opioid crisis in the United States has come about because of excessive use of these drugs for both legal and illicit purposes and unprecedented levels of consequent opioid use disorder (OUD). More than 2 million people in the United States are estimated to have OUD, which is caused by prolonged use of prescription opioids, heroin, or other illicit opioids. OUD is a life-threatening condition associated with a 20-fold greater risk of early death due to overdose, infectious diseases, trauma, and suicide. Mortality related to OUD continues to escalate as this public health crisis gathers momentum across the country, with opioid overdoses killing more than 47,000 people in 2017 in the United States. Efforts to date have made no real headway in stemming this crisis, in large part because tools that already existâ€"like evidence-based medicationsâ€"are not being deployed to maximum impact. To support the dissemination of accurate patient-focused information about treatments for addiction, and to help provide scientific solutions to the current opioid crisis, this report studies the evidence base on medication assisted treatment (MAT) for OUD. It examines available evidence on the range of parameters and circumstances in which MAT can be effectively delivered and identifies additional research needed.

For those inspired by Barclay’s Paul and the Gift Over the course of his academic career, John M. G. Barclay has transformed how we think about Paul. Barclay’s contributions to Pauline Studies reached a new height with the publication of his award-winning Paul and the Gift, in which he presents a sophisticated reading of Paul’s theology of grace within the context of gift-giving in the Greco-Roman world. But where does Pauline scholarship go from here? Featuring a diverse group of internationally renowned scholars, The New Perspective on Grace collects essays inspired by Barclay’s magnum opus. These essays broadly explore the implications of grace and gift across a variety of fields: biblical studies, theology, reception history, and theology in practice. Topics include: • Paul’s soteriology • The role of grace in Paul’s life and ministry • Implications of the New Perspective on Paul • Divine giving in the Gospels • Gift-giving and Christian aesthetics • Interpretations of Pauline grace from the patristic period to the present • Self-giving and self-care • Grace and ministry in marginalized communities The New Perspective on Grace is essential reading for all students and scholars who want to understand the current state of Pauline scholarship. Contributors: Edward Adams, Dorothea H. Bertschmann, Ben C. Blackwell, David Briones, Marion L. S. Carson, Stephen J. Chester, Susan Grove Eastman, Troels Engberg-Pedersen, Simon Gathercole, Beverly Roberts Gaventa, John K. Goodrich, Judith M. Gundry, Jane Heath, David G. Horrell, Jonathan A. Linebaugh, Joel Marcus, Orrey McFarland, Dean Pinter, Todd D. Still, Paul Trebilco, Michael Wolter