4 Things to Avoid in Early Recovery from Addiction

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4 Things to Avoid in Early Recovery from Addiction
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4 Things to Avoid in Early Recovery from
Addiction1. Leave Treatment Early2. Switch
Drugs3. Design Your Own Program4. Lose Focus
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1. Leave Treatment Early
This is number one on the list for a reason.
Never, never leave treatment early. It is always
a mistake. I have watched so many people do this
and no one ever comes back and confirms that it
was a good idea. It is always the reverse. I
nearly always saw the person again, usually
coming back for more treatment. This is like the
universal outcome of people who leave treatment
early.
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2. Switch Drugs
I have to admit that I tried to do this when I
was struggling to find sobriety. It was a
colossal failure of course, which is why it is on
this list. Narcotics Anonymous does a good job of
making this distinction as well, saying that we
must avoid all mood and mind altering substances,
and labeling them all as drugs, to include
alcohol.
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3. Design Your Own Program
This idea goes along with the concept of leaving
rehab early. We already talked about why leaving
treatment early does not work, and should never
be attempted. For the same sort of reasons, you
should never try to design your own program in
early recovery. It doesnt work.
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4. Lose Focus
It is difficult to say exactly why someone
relapses but loss of focus could definitely be
used to describe it in most cases. And if you
ask someone who is coming back from a relapse
they will almost always tell you that they
stopped doing what they needed to do in order to
recover.
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