Qualitative study reveals community-led recovery knowledge among minoritised ethnic groups, highlighting the generative role of lived experience in reforming addiction care.
Key Points
To investigate how integrating conceptual models of utopia and epistemic justice can center lived experience to reshape addiction recovery systems for minoritised ethnic communities.
Conducted two co-produced, community-led engagement events with 55 participants from minoritised ethnic recovery communities in England.
Analyzed group dialogue using reflexive thematic analysis grounded in Levitas's triadic functions of utopia and Fricker's framework of epistemic injustice.
Identified coexisting dynamics of systemic critique, grassroots compensatory care practices, and structured proposals for transformational change.
Demonstrated that minoritised communities actively generate authoritative recovery knowledge and care within culturally and relationally embedded networks.