Relapse Prevention

Relapse Prevention

What is relapse?

Relapse is define as continue the drug abuse after individual have been abstinent for some time. According to an estimates that 40 to 60 percent of people eventually relapse after complete abstinent. Drug addiction recovery is a long process, its take to get over drug dependence, withdrawal symptoms and overcome craving.

There are three stages of relapse:

Emotional relapse: In this phase, individual behaviors and thoughts are setting up for a relapse but he is not thing about drug use. Individual’s emotions bottled up, he isolates himself, become angry and anxious and disturbs eating and sleeping patterns.
Mental relapse: In this phase a war, begin in individual’s mind to use the drug or not, start thinking about people and situations associated with drug use. He starts bargaining with himself to use the drugs again.
Physical relapse: During this phase, the individual actually starts using drugs, he starts using from one dose that leads to addiction.

What is relapse prevention?

Relapse prevention is the technique for reducing the risk of relapse from alcohol use, substance abuse and addiction. It incorporates different strategies: its need to include different skills in treatment plan to ensure long-term sobriety.

Relapse prevention at The New Life Rehab Center Islamabad Psychiatric Center:

Our clinical team helps the individual to process and identify those barriers and challenges which leads to potential drug abuse. Our experienced team after identifying the triggering factors teaches the individual life skills, coping skills, communication skills and anger management. Our relapse prevention plan is incorporate with array of strategies and skills.

Returning to previous harmful behavior: We work in individual’s self-reflection and self-awareness that allows the individual in discovering and identifying those harmful behaviors that leads to addictive behavior. In addition, it helps the individual, helps the individual to compare their current behavior during their addiction, for example; codependency, emotional, situational and spiritual.

Abstinence:

The term abstinence in addiction recovery is define as, complete discontinuation of substance and drug use. According to bio-psycho-social model health, the brain, lifestyle, emotions behavior and relationships are all predictions of relapse. Abstinence addresses all the factors included in bio-psycho-social model.

Strategies to managing cravings and triggers:

Craving varies in different individuals it can be thoughts, behaviors, feelings and memories. Craving is strong urge and desire to use alcohol, substance and drugs, areas of brain that create drive activated while the areas that restrain these cravings are deactivated. Our addiction counselor and psychotherapist make a plan, which helps the individual to understand the high-risk situation and how to apply effective coping strategies to reduce the cravings and managing the triggers. In addition, we also encourage the patient to maintain the follow-up treatment plan.

Our Brains:

During addiction treatment, an individual is building the new brain and rewiring the brain to develop healthier habits, re-learn skill and create new neural pathways.

Overconfidence:

Overconfidence is the behavior individual believes that he will never returns to drug addictive behavior. Some tips to overcome overconfidence are:

Observing your thoughts
Watching your actions
Action plans

Importance of self-care:

If an individual is not taking care of himself, they are at high risk to lose the ability to cope with cravings and triggers. Self-care is very important in progress and journey of healthier and sober life. For this reason, our treatment approach emphasized on self-caring strategies and based on indigenous teaching of healing.

Spiritual: Faith, Meditation, Self-Reflection, Learning and Religious Activities
Emotional: Support System, Self-Affirmation, Therapy, Crying, Laughing
Physical: Nutrition, Exercising, Healthy Life Style, Drinking Water
Mental: Reading, Compliment, Saying ‘no’, and CBT

Managing euphoric recall:

Euphoric recall is the state in which individual become obsessed with addiction and utilizes their time only thinking of using drugs. This led to recall the positive memories of “how good it used to be” and fantasies those moments. In our facility, we help the individual work through euphoric recall and offer strategies to manage.

High risk situation:

These situations can be people, places, things, emotions and triggers, our clinical team helps in work through how to avoid, manage response and cope to them.

High risk situation also included:

Times of celebration
Times of sadness
Times of boredom

Relapse Prevention and Addiction Recovery:

Relapse begins before substance abuse; it could start with a reminder of using or going back to old behavior and routine. The first step towards healthier life is doing your own self-reflection and self-understanding of your own using and behavior.

Treat sobriety as a continuous learning progression, every day we find out something new about ourselves, others and the world. and isn’t that a wonderful thing?

For more details, please contact us The New Life Drug Addiction Treatment & Rehabilitation Center in Islamabad by calling 03214528124 or email us at kifyathussainkhan2016@gmail.com or visits us on https://thenewlife.com.pk/