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: Lita (litap@telis.org )
Date posted: Tue Apr 14 22:04:21 1998
Subject: Relapse
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Absolutely, would you tell a cancer patient that had a recurring cancer that they were no longer eligible for treatment because they had it once? Relapse is part of the disease. It is also a complex issue. Certainly 21 or 28 days of treatment is not enough to help. A recovering person barely is out of the fog of their drug, at 1 year so perhaps we need to look at treatment as a longer event.
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