Relapse Prevention: How A Drug Intervention Can Help

Relapse Prevention: Telling Your Family You’re Slipping

The point of relapse prevention is so that you don’t relapse. It’s set up to prepare you and your family and friends for the signs of relapse. A lot of times addicts are doing well for a year two years after rehab and then suddenly something happens and they start thinking about drinking or doing drugs. They start putting themselves in situations and talking in certain ways that suggest that they are thinking about drinking usually when an addict gets like this and they are prepped for signs of relapse they know how to handle how they are feeling and they make a phone call or get to a meeting immediately and are able to control the situation.

Drug Intervention: Drugs Come In All Shapes And Sizes

A drug addiction intervention isn’t just for people doing hard, illegal drugs like crystal meth, heroin or cocaine. It might seem weird to a family or to friends when someone suggests doing an drug intervention for someone who is addicted to pain pills. If they are prescribed by a doctor there are people who have trouble getting their head around that. It’s not the kind of drugs they were brought up thinking of as addictive harmful drugs.

They have a harder to looking at the person as an addict who needs an intervention. Prescription drugs have been making the news a lot recently because they can be really dangerous when a doctor gives you a prescription of codeine or vicodin or xanax and you start taking them recreationally and not for what they are supposed to be taken for which is pain or an anxiety attack. Some people start taking these drugs past when they are no longer in pain or when they aren’t having anxiety.