Why does a post treatment, assertive, continuing care plan, matter?
A treatment program offers the individual struggling with addiction a chance to get healthy in a safe environment. Often the client becomes reliant upon the monitoring within this environment to keep him or her from returning to her former using behaviors. Once this monitoring is removed, many clients find that they are not sure how to fend for themselves or how to get themselves into a regular, drug-free, recovery routine.
Also, most everyone who stops drinking and doing drugs still, even after 30, 60, 90 days of treatment, experience cravings, mood swings, depression, anxiety, and other drug- and alcohol-induced symptoms that play havoc with recovery. See Brain Repair.
As stated in the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s (NIDA) “Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment”, “Scientific research and clinical practice demonstrate the value of continuing care in treating addiction…For many patients, a continuing care approach provides the best results.”
Also, most everyone who stops drinking and doing drugs still, even after 30, 60, 90 days of treatment, experience cravings, mood swings, depression, anxiety, and other drug- and alcohol-induced symptoms that play havoc with recovery. See Brain Repair.
As stated in the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s (NIDA) “Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment”, “Scientific research and clinical practice demonstrate the value of continuing care in treating addiction…For many patients, a continuing care approach provides the best results.”
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