Addiction Research Foundation- Survey Change

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Addiction Change Survey

• ADDICTION RESEARCH FOUNDATION

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Introduction
The Addiction Research Foundations Mission is
conduct and support research that improves
treatment outcomes for persons with substance
abuse disorders. The Addiction Research
Foundation now procedure to use these thoughts
and questions to get even more information that
may assist others to recovery from addiction. 
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Addiction Research Change Survey

• One of the surveys at the Addiction Research
  Foundation called the Addiction Change Survey has
  been promoted primarily through social media.
• Childhood Experiences
• 39 percent of all women reported having been
  abused as a child compared to 26 percent of men.
• More than three out of five women (65) reported
  childhood emotional abuse, compared to two out of
  five (40) men.
• Strikingly, nearly half of all women (47)
  reported childhood sexual abuse, compared to less
  than one-fifth of all men (19).
• A third of all women reported having been
  neglected as a child, compare to less than
  one-fifth of all men (19).
• Just over half of women (51) reported growing up
  in a household with alcoholism compared to nearly
  two-fifths of men (38).

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• Adult Experiences
• More than half of all female respondents (52)
  reported having been physically abused as an
  adult only 12 percent of men reported being
  physically abused as an adult.
• Three out of four female respondents (75)
  reported having been emotionally abused as an
  adult compared to one of three males (35).
• One out of three women (36) reported having been
  sexually abused as an adult. (Only 5 of men
  reported adult sexual abuse.)
• Similarly, more than half of women (53) reported
  living in a household with drug addiction (other
  than their own) as an adult, compared to only
  one-quarter of men (26).
• Nearly two out of five women (37) reported
  living in a household with criminal behavior
  (other than their own) as an adult. (17 of men
  reported living in a household with criminal
  behavior.)

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As it is our research we are left some bigger
questions. Should female treatment have more of a
focus on trauma due to the higher number of
traumatic incidents being report? Does this
imply a need for segregated treatment for men and
women? What areas should men and women be
treated the same? Should there be very different
treatment for trauma survivors and non- trauma
clients? How could we individualize treatment
more so that it better suited the client? How
does trauma effect the physical component of
addiction? What types of trauma modalities are
best for which kinds of trauma in addiction
treatment? We hope to look at some of the
questions with our next round of surveys. We
will be designing and developing a new survey to
look at trauma and addiction and male vs female.
We hope you will be a partner with us in looking
at these questions.
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Contact us For More Information
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