Perceptions of chronicity and recovery among youth in treatment for substance use problems.

Purpose: To explore how youth contextualize substance use problems and recovery, in general and for themselves, in relation to the commonly accepted chronicity framework.

Methods: Fourteen focus groups were conducted with 118 youth in substance abuse treatment settings (aged 12-24 years; 78.3% male; 66.

Understanding recovery barriers: youth perceptions about substance use relapse.

Objective: To qualitatively explore how treatment-involved youth retrospectively contextualize relapse from substance use.

Methods: Fourteen focus groups were conducted with 118 youth (78.3% male; 66.