Aaron Betty | 2025 I.S. Symposium
狈补尘别:听Aaron Betty
罢颈迟濒别:听Addiction and Religion: Alcoholics Anonymous, Recovery, and Side Effects
惭补箩辞谤:听Religious Studies
惭颈苍辞谤:听Urban Studies
础诲惫颈蝉辞谤蝉:听Jeremy Rapport; Terry Reeder
This study involves research using secondary sources and focuses on the relationships between substance use disorder recovery, religion, and spirituality. I dive into these issues by focusing on Alcoholics Anonymous and A.A.鈥檚 potential path to becoming an established religious organization. I also focus on religion as a substitute addiction and analyze if religion helps or hurts substance use disorder recovery. Religion proves to be generally helpful in recovery, but the risk of it becoming a substitute addiction is prevalent. Stigma and its negative effects on recovering from a substance use disorder are also discussed.
Posted in Symposium 2025 on May 1, 2025.
