What Is a Relapse Prevention Program?
You’ve just completed residential or outpatient
What Does Relapse Prevention Teach You?
No one wants to fail, but the reality is that
A relapse prevention program gives you those tools and resources. These programs are designed to help people who are facing challenges to gather their strength to fight the temptation to use. Each program is a bit different, but within them, you’ll learn aspects about preventing relapse, including the following.
- Coping Skills
A relapse prevention program provides you with tools to help you cope with cravings. Cravings arise in response to triggers,
- How to Find and Use a
Support System
Another aspect of relapse prevention is giving you a support system when there is a risk of relapse. For example, you may recognize that you’ve started to think about drugs again. You may know that this is the time to seek out help. As a result, you go to a 12-step meeting that you know is available to you. You’ll have people to call when you are feeling like you need to use.
- How to Handle a Momentary Slip
You have a sip of alcohol at a friend’s wedding. Perhaps you walked into a room where drugs were present and took a few deep draws someone offered you. These momentary slips are an incredibly risky situation. In that moment, you need to know what to do to prevent yourself from a full-blown relapse into
Why Is Relapse So Bad?
It’s clear that you’ve worked so hard to overcome your addiction and enter a period of recovery. Your body is healing. Your
However, relapse is a challenge and comes with a number of consequences. It can be very difficult for you to recover after an initial relapse. Relapse may also have legal implications for some people. Using drugs or alcohol may impact your ability to retain custody of a
There are physical complications as well. During active addiction, the amount of a drug you can handle is much higher than that of the average person. Once you work through
Why Choose Our Relapse Prevention Program?
With relapse prevention programs, you gain insight into what’s happening to you as you experience triggers. You can recognize your warning signs more easily and take action to get back on track. At Victory
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