Attitudes Among Young Adults in Palestine About Peers With Substance Use Problems: Challenges and Opportunities for Community Intervention Design

On March, 2019, Hreish Kh., Okkeh M., Fareed A., & Byers D. published a new study on International Social Work, titled “Attitudes Among Young Adults in Palestine About Peers With Substance Use Problems: Challenges and Opportunities for Community Intervention Design”. The article aimed to prove that social reintegration is necessary to support people in recovery from addiction, and that such an approach is often difficult in Palestine due to stigma. An instrument for measuring receptivity to social reintegration in various contexts in Saudi Arabia was employed for the purpose of comparison with what is there in the West Bank. The results of this study demonstrated that more than half of the subjects of the study have moderate attitudes towards social reintegration of people in the recovery of addicts. There were no significant correlations between the perceptions about social reintegration and factors of gender, age, level of year in college, area of academic concentration, and the type of place of residence. Implications of the results were also discussed.

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