Malibu, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/21/2015 -- An alcohol research group had conducted a study recently about the motivation in the substance abuse that will encourage users to quit or reduce substance use and totally embrace sobriety in sober living homes. The researchers coming from the Public Health Institute in Emeryville aims to analyze the less frequently examined factor in getting sober which is the desire to maintain sobriety after successfully achieving abstinence.

The recent study examined the motivation of the users that drives them to keep sober among the residents of sober living houses. Sober living houses, like the ones in SOBA Mesa, is a type of recovery community home for individuals that are dealing with alcohol and drug issues. And in this research, it ought to unveil the driving motivational force that helps former drug and alcohol users to maintain sobriety.

Based from the previous research that was conducted, the same population had showed great favorable longitudinal outcomes over the course of 18 months. The views of the residents towards the cost of not using the substance, where the difficulties encountered when the substance is not used were included, as well as the benefits that was perceived from not using it – were some of the strong predictors of the substance in arriving to what is now the favorable outcome.

To make the findings on this study valid and reliable, the researchers conducted the two focus groups with individuals familiar with the structure of the treatment programs and their day-to-day operations at sober living homes, where the administrators of the sober living homes, the owners, and the peer managers are also included. And the results undeniably reveal the importance of cost and benefits as the driving motivational force that influence users to abstain the use of alcohol and drugs.

The focus group in the study supported the significant role of cost and benefits as a motivational force that will influence the abstinence of residents to alcohol and drugs. Aside from this, the characteristic of the sober living environment which have been helpful to resident to get recover and be able to go back to the society is another factor that have influenced that motivation.

The constant interaction with recovering peers have indeed offered a unique opportunity to many residents to feel understood, be able to recognize the vulnerability in others, identify the recovery process that others are experiencing, receive supportive confrontation and be engaged to mutual accountability. These are the contributing factors of great motivation within the residents in sober living which is daunting to replicate outside the context.

According to the researchers of this study, being able to recognize what cost and benefits can do to enhance motivation should not only be the focus here because operators of recovery homes also need to understand what motivation is, particularly on its functions as part of the recovery home social environment.

To learn more about effective recovery from drug and alcohol abuse, feel free to visit the Mesa AZ sober living at www.sobamesa.com for more details.

About Soba Recovery Center, Mesa
At Soba, they are dedicated to helping their friends overcome the destruction of addiction and substance abuse. No one suffering from addiction planned it. No one wants to admit they really have a problem. Drugs and alcohol are many times the only solution we know. At Soba, with the help of their staff, they will help patients understand what seems so confusing right now. They will prepare a personalized plan for them to find the underlying causes of their addiction and ways to address it. Soba's program takes a holistic approach of different therapies with the most experienced and professional staff in the field of treatable psychological disorders designed to provide long-term care for individuals seeking treatment for drug and alcohol addiction.

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