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Abstract
The opioid crisis has gained major attention in recent years due to an increase in overdose deaths in America. The treatment of opioid use and recovery from opioid use is a growing topic of interest in research. Current literature suggested that a person’s attitude towards recovery from mental health disorders can predict recovery outcomes. The implication makes recovery attitudes essential to understand in long-term recovery from illness. However, no research exists regarding opioid use recovery and recovery attitudes. The study sought to determine whether certain variables, as a group, predicted recovery attitudes, whether these variables, individually, predicted recovery attitudes, and whether a single best predictor of recovery attitudes existed. The study was a nonexperimental, quantitative study that included 55 previous opioid users who have gone at least one year without use. Impulsivity, social support, age, gender, and educational level were the predictor variables in the study. Through multiple regression analysis the variables, as a group, significantly predicted recovery attitudes in opioid users who have gone at least one year without use. Individually, impulsivity was the only predictor of recovery attitudes and, therefore, the best predictor. Future research should consider other possible predictors of recovery attitudes as well.
