Incarcerated women's relationship-based strategies to avoid drug use after community re-entry.
While recent research has stressed the supportive role that family and friends play for incarcerated persons as they re-enter the community, drug-using incarcerated women re-entering the community often have to rely on family, community, and intimate relationships that have played a role in their substance abuse and criminalization. In this study the authors conducted qualitative analysis of clinical sessions with rural, drug-using women (N = 20) in a larger prison-based HIV risk reduction intervention in Kentucky during 2012-2014 to examine incarcerated women's perceptions of the role of their family, community, and intimate relationships in their plans to decrease their substance abuse upon community re-entry. Women stressed the obstacles to receiving support in many of their family and drug-using relationships after community re-entry. Nonetheless, they asserted that changes in their relationships could support their desires to end their substance abuse by setting limits on and using their positive relationships, particularly with their children, to motivate them to change. Interventions to promote incarcerated women's health behavior changes-including substance abuse-must acknowledge the complex social environments in which they live.
['Snell-Rood|Claire|C|', 'Staton-Tindall|Michele|M|', 'Victor|Grant|G|']
D003159:Community-Institutional Relations D005260:Female D015658:HIV Infections D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand D006801:Humans D007398:Interpersonal Relations D007629:Kentucky D010379:Peer Group D011329:Prisoners D011330:Prisons D036301:Qualitative Research D012424:Rural Population D012747:Sexual Partners D012931:Social Environment D012959:Socioeconomic Factors D019966:Substance-Related Disorders D016387:Women's Health
drug use Abuse behavior HIV/AIDS coping mental health risk factors