Forum: Close to Home
Topic: Should people be given an opportunity for further addiction treatment if they relapse?
Topic Posted by: Close To HomeDate Posted: Wed Mar 18 15:22:22 1998
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Posted by: Donna Boundy (dboundy837@aol.com )
Date posted: Fri Mar 20 19:58:28 1998
Subject: Relapse
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Addiction is a chronic, often relapsing illness, like many other illnesses. When someone relapses, this does not mean she's failing in recovery, or not motivated to recover, it just means you're made a mistake, one you can learn to avoid with greater awareness. A tendency to relapse is a natural part of addictive disease, in other words, and even people who are highly motivated and sincere about their recovery can slip. So it follows that if someone relapses, he or she should be allowed to receive more treatment. Most people probably require more than one treatment attempt before they are able to stay clean and/or sober. What do you think?