patients usually following inpatient treatment. They are very beneficial in helping people make the transition back to leading an independent, drug-free life. Some services provided to patients are helping them to learn how to manage finances, seek employment opportunities, and how to connect with support services in their communities (NIDA, 2014a).
Outpatient behavioral treatment is an option more often recommended to those that have the support and motivation to quit using or for those who aren’t as far along or consumed in their addiction as others. Outpatient treatment allows you to continue living your daily life and attend school or your job as normal, with the exception that you make the meetings required of the program. They are usually …show more content…
The basis of these programs is self-help recovery through following the Twelve Steps and group participation. The Twelve Steps of recovery begins with admitting to having a problem and being powerless over drugs or alcohol, understanding that a return to health without the drug is possible, and that continuing use will lead to a downward spiral and self-destruction will continue. Those who attend meetings are encouraged to believe in a Higher Power, whatever that may mean to them, in order to emphasize that people with addiction have lost control over their lives and must seek assistance of a greater power in recovery. Finally, they are encouraged to participate in sponsorship, which is a stable, one-on-one relationship between a member with more sobriety (the sponsor) and one with less (the sponsee). The overall purpose of both programs is to aid in recovery through peer identification and learning from the experiences of others and to build social relationships that do not revolve around the use of drugs (Maisto, Galizio, & Connors, 2015; 12 Steps Recovery, …show more content…
Studies show that those who do not seek further help after detoxification are more likely to relapse than those who participate in detox paired with rehabilitation (NIDA, 2007; Futures of Palm Beach, 2016d). One study has shown that patients who receive further treatment within 30 days upon completion of detoxification are ten times less likely to relapse, whereas the relapse rates of those that had completed detoxification alone were between 65 and 80 percent (Johns Hopkins Medicine, 2012, cited in Futures of Palm Beach, 2016). These relapse rates from not attending further treatment are consistent with Robinson and Berridge’s incentive sensitization theory of addiction because your brain’s reward circuitry would now be wired to the reward that the drug brings. Along with the many S-S and S-R associations you would exhibit daily if you return to your same routine, it makes it all the more difficult to resist relapse (Robinson & Berridge,
Outpatient behavioral treatment is an option more often recommended to those that have the support and motivation to quit using or for those who aren’t as far along or consumed in their addiction as others. Outpatient treatment allows you to continue living your daily life and attend school or your job as normal, with the exception that you make the meetings required of the program. They are usually …show more content…
The basis of these programs is self-help recovery through following the Twelve Steps and group participation. The Twelve Steps of recovery begins with admitting to having a problem and being powerless over drugs or alcohol, understanding that a return to health without the drug is possible, and that continuing use will lead to a downward spiral and self-destruction will continue. Those who attend meetings are encouraged to believe in a Higher Power, whatever that may mean to them, in order to emphasize that people with addiction have lost control over their lives and must seek assistance of a greater power in recovery. Finally, they are encouraged to participate in sponsorship, which is a stable, one-on-one relationship between a member with more sobriety (the sponsor) and one with less (the sponsee). The overall purpose of both programs is to aid in recovery through peer identification and learning from the experiences of others and to build social relationships that do not revolve around the use of drugs (Maisto, Galizio, & Connors, 2015; 12 Steps Recovery, …show more content…
Studies show that those who do not seek further help after detoxification are more likely to relapse than those who participate in detox paired with rehabilitation (NIDA, 2007; Futures of Palm Beach, 2016d). One study has shown that patients who receive further treatment within 30 days upon completion of detoxification are ten times less likely to relapse, whereas the relapse rates of those that had completed detoxification alone were between 65 and 80 percent (Johns Hopkins Medicine, 2012, cited in Futures of Palm Beach, 2016). These relapse rates from not attending further treatment are consistent with Robinson and Berridge’s incentive sensitization theory of addiction because your brain’s reward circuitry would now be wired to the reward that the drug brings. Along with the many S-S and S-R associations you would exhibit daily if you return to your same routine, it makes it all the more difficult to resist relapse (Robinson & Berridge,