Table 5 Results pertaining to “What drug-related outcomes are important to you?”

Complete Abstinence

“to stop using other drugs because one drugs I not better for you than another drug to use. So if you’re using drugs, it doesn’t matter what drug it is, it’s still drugs.”

“just being abstinent from all of it, because if I did a little I would be right back to doing all of it.”

Prioritization of Methamphetamine Abstinence

“not using any meth, because if I use any I’ll use as much as I can.”

“reducing methamphetamines because that’s my drug of choice. If I was gonna do anything…that’s why I went to prison. They take you down and they take you down hard too so yeah, that’s why it’s important to not use meth and not want to use meth.”

Recovery Identity

“telling people that I’m in recovery because it puts up a barrier between the people you’re around to let them know you don’t want to be around anything like that.”

“I think the most important is identifying as a person in recovery. If you can’t identify what kind of person you are then you’re not gonna get anywhere and you’re gonna be in that cycle of winding you around over and over again.”

Abstinence from “harder drugs”

“every one of them except the marijuana, tobacco, and suboxone…. Marijuana isn’t that bad; it doesn’t alter your mind. I smoke that and I smoke tobacco and I can still recover …”

“not using harder drugs, like meth and stuff like that, because when you get on that you can’t really function right. You can’t take care of your daily tasks. You think you are but you’re messing them up.”