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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Development of a bibliography on religion, spirituality and addictions.
Drug Alcohol Rev 2007;26:389 - 395]








The aim of this study was to develop a comprehensive annotated public-domain bibliography of the literature on spirituality and addictions to facilitate future research and scholarship.

A search was conducted of all citations listed in the MEDLINE, PsychINFO and ALTA Religion databases covering a period from 1941 to 2004 using the following search terms: substance abuse, substance dependence, addiction, religion, spirituality.

The literature is voluminous, but has focused primarily in a few areas. Common findings included an inverse relationship between religiosity and substance use/abuse, reduced use among those practising meditation and protective effects of 12-Step group involvement during recovery.

Although sound instruments are available for measuring spirituality, studies have tended to use simplistic, often single-item measures.

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