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What is a Relapse Prevention Plan?

During recovery, it takes time for your body and mind to heal fully. What makes a recovery especially difficult is the high relapse rates. Between 40% and 60% of people in active recovery suffer a relapse, which happens when you begin abusing substances after a period of complete abstinence. Creating a relapse prevention plan is…

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What are Triggers?

When your brain associates your substance of choice with pleasure, it positively reinforces your drug and alcohol use. This process makes it difficult to recover because you have to learn how to handle and cope with triggers. But what are triggers and how do you learn how to successfully manage them during recovery? Recovery is…