Relapse refers to the process of returning to the use of alcohol or drugs after a period of abstinence. Relapse is a possibility for you regardless of how much time you have been sober. Part of your recovery plan should include learning about the relapse process and devising a plan to help prevent you from relapsing should warning signs occur.

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Dr. Silkworth On Relapse

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The Healthy Lifestyles: Alcohol Pathway business case states Silkworth Lodge / Jersey Addiction Group "receive an annual grant of 222,200 from HSSD for providing eight residential alcohol rehabilitation beds as part of a relapse prevention programme".

The contract and service specification with Silkworth Lodge recognised that the residential services being offered using the 12-step Model would not meet the need and or be suitable for all customers. The services commissioned were planned as part of a wider, more holistic and integrated community alcohol pathway. The alcohol pathway supports consistent quality of care in the most appropriate setting and comprises awareness and information, screening and brief advice, and detoxification in non-hospital settings. The pathway is supported by a community based multidisciplinary team, where Silkworth Lodge is represented, to provide expert advice, treatment and relapse prevention programmes to support dependent and harmful drinkers in order to prevent hospital readmission and reduce alcohol related morbidity. Because at the time the services commissioned from Silkworth Lodge were the only community based residential service it was recognised that consideration of additional services could be made as part of the development of the alcohol pathway based on NICE guidance and other key sources of evidence.

If you or a loved one are a true addict or alcoholic, you are going to use or drink again if you do not treat your alcoholism. Alcoholism and addiction have been deemed as a chronic disease and if it is not constantly treated then it can lead to relapse.

Statistically, other chronic illnesses such as asthma, diabetes, and hypertension have similar rates of relapse to addiction. Like these other chronic illnesses, drug use can require repeated treatments before abstinence is achieved and recovery is sustained.

If you are a chronic relapser, then you know that you cannot stay stopped. Experience has shown you this. The book states that we alcoholics and addicts cannot differentiate the true from the false and that our alcoholic life seems normal.

A relapse prevention plan involves preparing for the possibility of a relapse and identifying ways to avoid one. A successful plan entails networking with every available resource. This may include attendance at individual and group therapy sessions, regular contact with sponsors, attendance at 12 Step programs such as AA, family assistance and support, or any measure that can be taken to help keep recovery on track. Most relapse prevention plans involve addressing the following areas:

ADJUSTING THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE ONE IN RECOVERY

This may entail changing residence, job, neighborhood, the circle of friends and acquaintances, or addressing any environmental factor that may lead to a relapse.

DEVELOP A NETWORK OF SUPPORT COMMUNITIES

Recovery is difficult alone. Accessing individuals and processes who understand the problems of trying to live sober will help prevent a relapse. To learn more about relapse prevention contact Burning Tree today!

At Burning Tree Programs, We not only give you the best in class treatment options, but we make sure you have the tools and plan needed to enact a relapse prevention plan when you leave our treatment facility.

Such a relapse often requires medical treatment and sometimes psychiatric counseling as well. Then to stay sober once again, it is also vital that one makes an even stronger commitment to a Twelve Step recovery program like Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous as soon as possible. The longer one delays returning to the kind of treatment a support group offers, the more serious the impact of the physical, mental, and spiritual parts of the disease will have on the addict.

First of all, the relapse process begins long before alcohol and/or drugs enter the picture. It starts when the addict slowly begins to withdraw from treatment, whether it be cancelling appointments with an addiction counselor or missing fellowship meetings at Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous. Most people who relapse are not consciously aware that this is putting them in danger. Their disease is telling them they have now learned enough to keep themselves sober.

If these individuals are successful in the eyes of the world, it is easy for them to become complacent. They may become less rigorous about applying all the coping skills they developed when they first learned how to stay sober.

No alcoholic or drug addict really wants more pain in their lives or a lower bottom that may well cost them everything they had just gotten back in sobriety. In most cases they relapsed simply because they stopped doing the things that were keeping them sober in the first place.

Dr. William Silkworth, the well-known physician who cared for Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson when his drunken sprees would wind him up in old Towns Hospital in New York City, recommended a very simple solution for avoiding relapse many years ago.

He would tell a story that related an alcoholic who had a relapse to a man who had just suffered a serious heart attack. The cardiologist explained to his patient the heart attack was caused by being seriously overweight, out of shape, eating fatty foods, and smoking three packs of cigarettes a day. After the patient recovered, his physician put him on a special diet, an exercise regimen and insisted he stop smoking so he could stay in good health.

According to Dr. Vaillant, there are four factors that are commonly present in AA and in successful relapse prevention for most addictions: 1) external supervision (a sponsor, the group); 2) ritual dependency on a competing behavior (going to meetings; doing service work); 3) new love relationships (making friends in recovery); 4) and deepened spirituality (prayer and meditation). These factors are already present in the Catholic in Recovery model (with even higher doses of spirituality available through Mass and the sacraments) and could be tailored to address general recovery issues.

So in the passage where Dr. Silkworth talks about 'the supreme sacrifice,' I believe what he's saying is that there are times when fighting the craving to use is too much for some people, and they take their lives rather than continue to struggle with using and/or relapse.

So I was sitting here, and D. called. I've been sponsoring him for a while now. He had relapsed about a year ago after having a good amount of time sober, and he's really back on track and doing great, imho. But he was pretty sad/freaked. He told me that H. had killed himself.

Now let me interrupt myself right here to say something. A cynic might think this is a pretty melodramatic story. It fits nicely into the overall direction of this blog, and isn't that handy. Well, let me just say, I wish I was making this up. It would be a much better state of affairs if the facts were that I was a big effing phony, spinning some bullshit melodramatic tale of relapse and suicide to puff up my damn blog rather than the truth -- which is that a really nice guy, only 29 years old, who'd been in and out of AA for about the past ten years, decided to kill himself last night.

Smart, funny, nice, articulate, good looking kid. (I always thought of him as a kid, he had that boyish thing going on.) 29 years old. In and out of AA for about ten years. I first met him when he was maybe 19 or 20. He'd hit bottom pretty hard and got sober. After about a year he got a good job, started taking some classes at school, and got kind of busy -- as I remember him sharing it later on when he spoke about that time in his life, a little too busy for AA Meetings. Eventually he relapsed, and that became his pattern for the last ten years give or take. Maybe about a year or so ago I heard him speak at my regular Saturday night meeting. At that time he'd just gotten a year sober again. I have to say, to me he sounded really great, then. Seemed like he'd turned a corner. I won't try to quote him exactly, my memory is not that good and that would be a cheap stunt, but I recall that to me he sounded like he really had some insight into some of what drove his relapse cycle. He and I were not too much more than acquaintances, really. Friends in the way that AA allows you to be, which is to say we had both the 'ism' and the solution in common, and saw each other on and off at meetings, and occasionally around town, but we didn't really hang out together. We'd stop and say hi, catch up a bit, and go on our ways.

And last night, apparently he decided that continuing to live was too much for him, and alone in his apartment he put a plastic bag over his head and took his own life. I include that detail not to shock, but to clarify. Because for all the petty dramas and bullshit high school dynamics that can occur in AA Meetings, for all the mixed motives of some recovery centers, the vulgar vaudeville of celebrities in rehab on reality TV, the pop stars falling out of limos, or what have you, what Dr. Silkworth wrote in the mid 1930's is as true today as it was then. There are many situations that arise out of the phenomenon of craving which cause men to make the supreme sacrifice rather than continue to fight. I don't know what situations H. felt he was in that made the supreme sacrifice what he thought he needed to do. What I do know is that while he may (or may not) have had other issues operating, if you are struggling with relapse your thinking is not clear, and you don't see all of the choices you have before you, until maybe you think you really only have one choice left. be457b7860

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