title: Recovery as an ethical ideal.
abstract: The paper explores the varied implications of cure, healing, and recovery and considers why recovery is often the preferred characterization in relation to a medicalized drug dependency. The positive as well as the negative dimensions of recovery are noted; the ethical challenges of the primarily processual associations of recovery are investigated; and some policy implications are indicated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Law and Police Science, John Jay College, CUNY, New York, New York 10014, USA. jkleinig@jjay.cuny.edu
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kleinig
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011640:Public Policy; D012046:Rehabilitation / Q000941:ethics*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D009626:Terminology as Topic