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Drug Rehab Addiction
Recovery
Drug Rehab Addiction and
Recovery
Advanced recovery is considered to continue
throughout one's life. Recovery from addiction is a change in lifestyle that
includes maintaining abstinence as well as involving oneself in healthy
relationships; getting good nutrition, rest, and exercise; and working to
resolve one's personal problems with the goal of attaining a satisfying,
fulfilling life. Having established this kind of lifestyle, the patient must
now continue to lead it. In this model, recovery is a lifelong process.
Ideally, in this time-limited model, counseling is concluding at the
point when the patient is entering advanced recovery. Theoretically, individual
drug counseling is being terminated when the patient has established and
maintained abstinence and been taught all the essential strategies for recovery
and for living sober. At this point the patient is ready to have greater
independence and self-accountability in recovery. Also, he or she should be
ready to embark upon the higher level task of integrating recovery-oriented
values into all aspects of life. Of course, in reality, patients will be
terminating at different points in their recovery process, particularly when
the counselor is working with a time-limited approach. In this model, tailoring
the length of drug rehab treatment to the individual's needs is not possible.
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