title: With God's help i can do it: crack users? Formal and informal recovery experiences in El Salvador.
abstract: Crack use has increased dramatically in El Salvador in the last few decades. As with other developing countries with sudden onsets of drug problems, El Salvador has few medical staff trained in addictions treatment. Little research has examined drug users? attempts to reduce or abstain from drug use in countries where government-regulated formal medical treatment for drug addiction is scarce. This paper uses qualitative and quantitative data gathered from active crack users to explore their formal and informal strategies to reduce or abstain from drugs, and compares these with components of informal and formal treatment in developed countries.
authors.affiliation: Medical College of Wisconsin, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202, USA. jdicson@mcw.edu
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dickson-Gomez
authors.forename: Gloria
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bodnar
authors.forename: Carmen Eugenia
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Guevara
authors.forename: Karla
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rodriguez
authors.forename: Lorena Rivas
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: De Mendoza
authors.forename: A Michelle
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Corbett
mesh_terms: D019970:Cocaine-Related Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D016578:Crack Cocaine; D003906:Developing Countries; D004544:El Salvador; D029221:Faith Healing; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D012068:Religion and Medicine
chemical_list: D016578:Crack Cocaine