Subconscious surrender to God predicts long-term addiction recovery, study finds

Subconscious surrender to God predicts long-term addiction recovery, study finds

A 1-year longitudinal study showed that the adoption of Surrender to God, a religious coping strategy, was associated with almost 3 times lower odds of substance use relapse over the course of one year in Christian patients, if the use of this strategy is measured using an implicit association task. However, explicit measurement of the application of this coping strategy was only associated with slightly decreased odds of relapse after a month, …