Predictive traits for success in social rehabilitation of drug addicts

Abstract

This research analyzed the profile of the participants in a program of social rehabilitation of drug addicts deprived of liberty in order to identify every personal trait required to achieve therapeutic discharge, in other words, success in the program, and, consequently, social rehabilitation and the overcoming of the addiction. This article begins describing the state of the matter in question regarding drug dependency, incarceration and the existing types of programs in Spain for reintegration of these groups, in order to identify the particular traits of the program offering the context for the study. Moreover, the targets of the evaluative research and the methodology used are also detailed in the text. The outcome obtained and its discussion allow us to affirm that the entry profiles of the target population correspond to other studies on the same population, and to value the diverse factors predicting success in the rehabilitation. Thus, the results proved that the degree of progress in the process of personal and social decline caused by the addiction, as well as the resilience factors experienced and the emotional bonds projected into the future are relevant elements to success-fully tackle programs to overcome addictions. They also confirm the opportunity of programs combining the third sector with prisons which assume the re-educative role conferred by Spanish Constitution.