Continuum of Care and Relapse Prevention

How do you feel when you find out that someone you care about has just relapsed back into a life of drug addiction or alcohol abuse? Often  times, family members of loved ones who are experiencing problems with drug or alcohol abuse after having just gotten out of a drug and alcohol recovery center feel angry, disappointed or upset by what they feel was a poor decision on their family member to become involved in drug and alcohol abuse all over again. Couldn't they see what it did to the family before? How could they be so selfish?

Realizing that drug and alcohol recovery isn't an over-night thing is often a hard pill for many family members to swallow. After all, who doesn't want the best for the people they love? That being said, there is no one easy way to fix a drug or alcohol addiction. On the contrary, there are many ways to approach the issue, which is why Mark Houston Recovery believes in providing a continuum of care to those residents who are at risk of experiencing drug and/or alcohol relapse.

Continuing to Care About Your Loved One

There are various ways that Mark Houston Recovery approaches its extended care treatment of its recovering residents. The three main areas that we focus on here include the: physiological, psychological and spiritual. Once you can put these pieces together, then you can truly start on the path to recovery, thereby lessening your chances for relapsing. The initial recovery that Mark Houston Recovery focuses on revolves around breaking your loved one's bad habits of drug abuse and addiction. Throughout this process, it is extremely important and necessary for a recovering drug or alcohol addict to have other outside people that he or she can rely on for support. Could you imagine what it would be like to admit yourself to a drug and alcohol recovery center, get out and then realize that you had no one to talk to- no family to support you on your journey to sober living? Chances are that if this was you, you may fall right back into old habits of abusing drugs and/or alcohol.

We know that you have a choice when it comes to choosing the right kind of drug and alcohol recovery program. This is part of the reason that we are proud to offer our residents a minimum 30-day recovery program as well as a 90-day recovery program, transitional sober living, a one year monitoring program and more! Give us a call today at 1.866.905.4550.

You Can Live a Sober Life!

Although living a life that is characterized by sobriety is often difficult for a recovering drug or alcohol addict, it is most certainly not impossible to accomplish. In fact, there have been many success stories told by people regarding their experience with drugs in which they were finally able to overcome the constant temptations to use again. And a lot of this has to do with the quality of the continuum of car that they receive and are able to apply to their lives once they exit a drug and alcohol recovery program.

At Mark Houston Recovery, we provide all of our residents in both our 30-day recovery program as well as our 90-day recovery program with individualized continuums of care which simply describe the recommended steps involved in order to go from being ill to being well (sober). That being said, staff members at Mark Houston Recovery work with each recovering drug or alcohol addict to help them realize and understand that relapse prevention is possible as long as they understand that their drug and alcohol recovery process won't simply end when they walk out the front door to the drug and alcohol recovery center.