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The purpose of this study was to understand the experience of recovered drug addicts, explore the whole addiction and recovery process and the significant factors associated to them. Three recovered drug addicts were interviewees who recovered from an addiction treatment institute of Christianity. Expressive-autobiographical interviewing was adopted to collect data. The date was analyzed by the phenomenlogical methods. The main finding was as follows: 1.The results induced each interviewee''s personal addiction and recovery process, and five common stages were found: the pre-addition stage, the addiction stage, the repeated abstention and relapse stage, the early recovery stage, and the ongoing recovery stage. 2.The potential factors influenced the interviewees to involve in drug abuse, including: alienating form family and school, having chance to involve in deviated peer group or criminal subculture, negative problem coping pattern, the deviation of life style and self-direction, curiousity, and ingoring or neglecting the damage which may result from drug abuse. 3.The significant factors which associated to the interviewees'' failure in abstention, including: going from bad to worse physically and psychologically, being controlled by addiction entirely, having a strong craving for drug, avoiding pain and sense of frustration by drug abuse, failing to leave the addictive friends and life style, being disappointed with the repeated failure and the loss of self-value and life meaning. 4.The Christian institute have provided the following therapeutic functions: hopeness, the recovery examplars, modeling, protective enviorment, uncondtional love and concern, life reconstruction, gradual work training, self-assurance and encouragement from successful experience. 5.The religion (Christianity) have provided the following therapeutic functions: unconditional love, catharsis(sense of guilt), sense of secuity, belongingness, self-awareness, the meaning of life, the reconstruction of self-value, the principles of life and behavior, the goal of life, social support, and the ongoing self-growth.
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