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Is Your Family Coping With Relapse?

People who struggle with addiction are prone to relapse – the return to use after a period of abstinence. This can be extremely painful for newly recovering addicts and their families.

In the absence of support, relapse can crush hope for a new beginning. However, with the right support, many people are able to turn brief relapses into learning experiences that create stronger foundations for long-term recovery.

One of the reasons the addict in your life may be struggling with relapse, even if that person has been to treatment before is that the treatment plan was not as complete as it needed to be.

Renascent Complete Care addresses relapse by offering clients a 15-week structured relapse prevention program, family care programs and lifelong access to Renascent’s alumni community. A short-term residential treatment program alone is usually not sufficient to lay the foundation for lifelong recovery.

If your loved one has attended an abstinence-based treatment program and is struggling with relapse, we recommend that he or she do the following:

• Augment short-term residential treatment with Renascent Complete Care – a comprehensive strategy that includes Continuing Care, Family Care and Alumni Care. Unless the person is assessed as needing it, most people who’ve completed intensive treatment in the last six months won’t need to take Renascent Primary Care.

• Go to meetings – lots of meetings – so he or she can get support from recovering alcoholics and drug addicts who, like them, are just trying to stay sober one day at a time. Our research shows that Renascent alumni who regularly attend meetings and who work with a sponsor are twice as successful.

• Address any health issues that could impact his or her recovery; Renascent can arrange a specialized medical assessment.

Call 1-866-232-1212 today and ask our counsellors about Renascent Continuing and Family Care.