Challenges and Prescriptions for Homeless Drug Users’ Social Reintegration; An Experience of Partnerships Between Iran and Europe NGOs

• Published date: 01 January 2024
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/00220426231151372
• Author: Amir Moghanibashi-Mansourieh,Daryush Puyan,Ramin Radfar,Mohammad Jafarian,Thomas Legl,Regina Mattsson,Esbjorn Hornberg,Faezeh Atefi,Iris Neuretter,Cressida de Witte,Rabert Farnam,Mohammad Binazade,Abbas Deilamizade
• Date: 01 January 2024
• Subject Matter: Articles

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Journal of Drug Issues

2024, Vol. 54(1) 134–147

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Challenges and Prescriptions for

Homeless Drug Users’Social

Reintegration; An Experience of

Partnerships Between Iran and

Europe NGOs

Amir Moghanibashi-Mansourieh

1,2

, Daryush Puyan

2

, Ramin Radfar

3

,

Mohammad Jafarian

2

, Thomas Legl

4,5

, Regina Mattsson

6

,

Esbjorn Hornberg

6

, Faezeh Atef‌i

2

, Iris Neuretter

4

, Cressida de Witte

6

,

Rabert Farnam

7

, Mohammad Binazade

2

, and Abbas Deilamizade

2

Abstract

The research addressed challenges and prescriptions for reintegration of homeless people who

use drugs. Data were collected through conducting semi-structured interviews. Twenty-nine

participants were recruited. The primary codes were extracted and divided into two main

categories of challenges and prescriptions; the former included becoming homeless aft er a long

term recovery, workplace stigma, service users’different cultural backgrounds, dismissing the 12-

Step Program, message fatigue, negative effect of relapse on groups and cyberspace overuse; and

the latter included connection by hook or by crook, abstinence-harm reduction orientation,

organizational service collection, pushing boundaries of interventions, and expanding services

umbrella.

Keywords

social reintegration, homeless, drug use, service providers, challenges, prescriptions

1

Social Work Department, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran

2

Rebirth Charity Society NGO, Tehran, Iran

3

School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

4

European Treatment Centers for Drug Addiction, Vienna, Austria

5

Therapiesalon im Wald, Vienna, Austria

6

World Federation Against Drugs, Stockholm, Sweden

7

Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies (INCAS), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Corresponding Author:

Amir Moghanibashi-Mansourieh, Social Work Department, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences,

Kodakyar Ave., Daneshjo Blvd., Evin, Tehran 1985713871, Iran.

Email: amir.moghani@yahoo.com