Recovery is a very delicate process which involves the chemically dependent person re-creating their lives and learning how to live without the use of mood-altering chemicals. For many, this can be a daunting task. Chemical Dependency is a chronic disease, as such, the person will always have a certain level of risk to relapse back into chemical usage. However, the goals of our treatment and relapse prevention interventions are to reduce this risk and teach the client how to avoid relapse and maintain recovery. Simply stated, while some clients will relapse back into chemical usage, the combined experience of our staff is that treatment works and recovery is never out of reach. 

Furthermore, relapse does not always imply failure – many clients who have relapsed can use this experience to help motivate them for recovery and often times families can use this experience to relate to the addiction in different ways (i.e., not enabling the person) and no longer be a part of the destructive process of addiction.

Relapse prevention programming and education is an integral part of our program. Expecting a client who has a history of relapse to recover without thoroughly addressing the relapse process and subsequent consequences can be likened to attempting to cook a dish you have never prepared before without following a recipe – not a good idea! As such, our treatment team tailors relapse prevention programming to each client we treat based on their individual history.

Relapse prevention education and programming is offered in all of levels of care and typically includes the following processes:

• Assessment of relapse history and development of a relapse profile
• Education on the process of relapse, what to do if it happens, and how to avoid it
• Helping the client to learn how to identify high-risk situations, emotions, etc.
• Helping the client learn various coping skills
• Teaching the client how to apply the 12-steps, spirituality, and other related principles as a means of preventing relapse
• Ruling-out Dual Diagnosis as a precipitant of relapse
• Completion of a 21 session relapse prevention track
• Increased Therapy to address relapse and its precipitants (if indicated by treatment team)

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