1. Integrated Treatment: Impacts of Trauma & Addiction:
Trauma and Addiction
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By: Kaitlyn Ashcroft
Greater Rochester Collaborative Master of Social Work Program
Abstract
Data: 2015 National Survey
Integrated Treatment:
Research suggests that there is a strong correlation between trauma and drug addiction. Although many treatment centers address trauma and drug addiction as separate entities; studies show that by addressing both trauma and addiction simultaneously there is a higher chance of a successful recovery. This thesis will define trauma and addiction, diagnostic criteria, provide trauma and addiction theories and history, how brain functioning is altered if an individual has experienced trauma or addiction, the intense impacts of trauma and addiction, and various forms of treatment. This thesis also explores a few of the different integrated approaches that identify addiction and trauma as an issue that needs to be treated concurrently rather than separate.
Medication assisted treatment is helpful when addressing co-occurring disorders
Learn coping skills
Helps address possible triggers of mood swings, depression, panic attacks, and decrease relapse
Decrease hospitalization, ER visits, decrease tax payers spending
The ability to reclaim life and restore normalcy.
Addressing multiple stressors
Models that utilize an integrated treatment approach:
Addictions and Trauma Recovery Integration (ATRIUM), HWR or Helping Women Recover, Trauma Affect Regulation: Guide for Education and Therapy (TARGET) , Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model (TREM)
PTSD Symptoms
Use of Substances to “cope”
Vulnerability to more trauma
Mental Health
Addiction
Co-Occurring
Disorders
“50-66 percent of those who suffer from PTSD also battle simultaneous addiction”
Impacts of Trauma & Addiction:
Research suggests that individuals who struggle with trauma and addiction may have challenges forming and maintaining relationship. It can destroy family functioning. They often lose a piece of themselves and push moral values and beliefs. They are also at an increased risk for homelessness, incarceration, victimization and death.
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Trauma: “a distressing event that are psychologically overwhelming for the individuals who experience them”.
Addiction: “ a complex disease, often chronic in nature, which affects the functioning of the brain and body”.
Co-occurring Disorders: the coexistence of both a mental health and substance use disorder.