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Relapse Treatment |
For a person with an addiction, a relapse occurs when the individual resumes the addiction with which he or she struggles.
Relapses usually are not spontaneous events. In every instance, the individual has made a conscious decision to skip treatment sessions or 12-Step meetings or miss medication.
This treatment focuses on several things. Events that occur before a relapse are an important focus of relapse treatments, acting as warning signs of those risks that may affect future recovery. Relapse treatment also helps us focus on opportunities for learning.
Relapse treatments may help you or your loved one prepare for inevitable situations by helping to build communication, practice anger management or learn problem-solving skills.
Relapses are part of the recovery process.
Most importantly, relapse treatment educates you or your loved one that even people determined to maintain a recovery focus may experience several "slips" before achieving long-term recovery.
Relapses are common and do not represent failure.
Just as one must get back on a bike after a fall, relapse treatments tells us that it is just as important to resume the recovery process without being critical or angry at yourself or your loved one. Hitting rock bottom is no longer a mantra of relapse treatment programs. More important is the person's response to the relapse after it occurs.
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