Effects of Resilience on Addiction

Abstract

Objective of this study is to study effects of resilience on addiction. “The process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or even significant sources of stress”. Addiction is an inability to stop using a substance or engaging in behaviour even though it is causing mental and physical harm. It is characterized in two parts substance addiction is a neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by a recurring desire to continue taking the drug despite harmful consequences. Paper explores several themes based around resilience and addiction, like methods of developing resilience, the Resilience theory and its impact on family therapy, social work, community, and organization were discussed and relevance of optimism in developing resilience. This is descriptive research using qualitative research method of content analysis based on secondary data collected from several different resources. First, differences and similarities of various views on resilience and addiction amongst different substances were obtained, thereafter, the data was deciphered and categorized, objectives were discussed and study was concluded.