HOW TO PREVENT AGAIN DRUG USE EXPLAIN BY TAPASYA REHABILITATION DE-ADDICTION CENTRE CALL FOR HELP-88

Stay focused on your recovery. You need time to get yourself together, time to get stronger. Avoid situations where you feel bored. And, definitely avoid isolating yourself at home alone. Make sure you recognize your incremental achievements. Reward for achieving a goal of one week of sobriety, or one month without gambling, for example, is a great way of recognizing your achievements and spurring you on to your next goal. Get support and help often. Keep in close contact with those who are most helpful to you. This may be your family members, close friends or co-workers. It should definitely include your 12-step group sponsor and other group members with whom you share similarities or friendship. Change your routine. Switch the way you drive to work, the order in which you do your exercises, the variety of cuisines you eat or prepare. This keeps things from getting stale and creates an aura of excitement, of something different, something new each day to look forward to. Don’t see relapse as failure. Never give up on your goal of recovery. Instead, look at relapse as a brief return to addictive behavior. It doesn’t mean that you’re destined to fail if you’ve had a relapse. You may need to go back into treatment and/or intensive counseling so you can get back on the road to recovery. Get support immediately from a person or group that you trust if you feel in imminent danger of relapse.