Relapse Prevention

Relapse Prevention is a strategy to learn new coping skills which will more effectively overcome the stressors or triggers in and individual’s environment related to addiction that may cause relapse to build into chemical dependency.

 A relapse does not just happen by itself.  There are outside influences and contributing factors, and one can find evidence and warning signs that an individual might be in danger of returning to the destructive patterns of substance abuse.  While understanding and acceptance grow, the risk of relapse further decreases.  This is the period of time when it’s important to explore the situations, events and triggers that may have led to relapse in the past.  Learning about what general factors cause relapse, your ability to avoid relapse increases

 There are many other principals that may be incorporated into a relapse prevention plan.  The most important thing for an individual suffering from addiction is that relapse is inevitable if one takes no steps to prevent it.