An entire discourse could be written about the definition of relapse and Miller, W. (1996) articulates it best: “here we come to the edge of a vast ocean of complexity” . Traditionally, relapse and recovery were binary concepts – one was either sober or in relapse. In the modern era of addiction science, the re-initiation of substance use after intentional recovery is often conceptualized along a continuum from lapse to relapse to the re-activation of addiction. Utilizing such a definition of relapse could prove to be problematic with in a conceptual continuum. For example, is a lapse considered one sip, one drink, one drinking episode, two episodes? What constitutes a drinking episode: a day of binge drinking, 3 days, a week? What constitutes
