FAITH, ANCHOR FOR THE SUCCESS OF THE ALCOHOLIC INDIVIDUALS’ ABSTINENCE?
FAITH, ANCHOR FOR THE SUCCESS OF THE ALCOHOLIC INDIVIDUALS’ ABSTINENCE?

Summary/Abstract: The excessive alcohol consumption has undesired consequences on the individuals, both physically and mentally, and mostly socially, leading to addiction. This study, based on the alcoholic addicts, abstinent persons (with and without relapse) and former abstinent individuals who have given up on their abstinence, has as a main purpose the identification of the faith’s importance in the abstinent life, in the success rate of these individuals’ abstinence. I have assumed the fact that faith (not religion) has a positive role during the rehabilitation. The analysis on the faith’s role has been done taking into consideration the number of relapses and the duration of the active abstinence. The batch was formed of 273 individuals, men aged between 26 and 80 (with an average of 47.88), from which 133 were abstinent alcoholics without any relapse history, 93 were abstinent alcoholics with at least one relapse, and 47 former alcoholics who have given up to their abstinence and who are now active consumers. The study is based on items of interest, presented in a sociological questionnaire designed for alcoholic persons. The results have indicated high marks of the averages, statistically significant, both on the item representing the help gained from faith in obtaining and keeping the abstinence, and on the „satisfied by my own spirituality” item, in the case of abstinent individuals, in comparison with the other two categories. In these two items, the abstinent ones with at least one relapse have also gained higher scores than those who have given up on their abstinence. Individuals with a continuous abstinence longer than five years have proved a deeper faith in comparison with those who had relapsed in the past, but the „satisfaction with their own spirituality” was apparently the same.

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