Barriers To Long-Term Abstinence

Did you know that 9-out-of-10 addicts who enter rehab end up relapsing during the very first week?  These are frightening statistics.  I mean, this means that 90% are being defeated by opiate or heroin addiction immediately after attempting to quit.  Are these drugs that powerful!  This is a major problem that needs attention.  Knowledge is power, and awareness is prevention.  We all  need to talk about this and work together to come up with a solution.

We need our federal government and all States to fund more projects to fight opiate & heroin abuse.  We, ‘The People’, need to step up and demand that more be done.  After all, it is our tax dollars that go to pay for programs such as D.A.R.E.  But, we need more programs that address Awareness, Better Treatments, Recovery & Opportunities.  We cover all of these main topics within our site Heroininme.com  (go to our Home Page and Click the Pages In our top Menu).

Awareness Is Prevention

Getting clean may be easier than staying clean.  Long-term recovery can be a challenge without the right support.  There are many barriers that cause former drug abusers to become discouraged if they are not able to establish a stable life.  Examples are lack of housing and employment.

Listen to this recovery support group talk about external and internal barriers that might make them give up.  We are going directly to the ‘source’ of this heroin epidemic by listening and learning from addicts themselves.  We thank Gail Gabbert, Addiction Counselor, for producing this PodCast.  Click below to play the Podcast.

The points being talked about are listed below.  Please feel free to SHARE this Post & Site so that you can help us make others aware of this drug problem.  Again, Awareness leads to Prevention.  We can warn school kids about the dangers and when the opportunity comes for them to decide if they want to experiment with drugs, they will know what to do.

Discussion Guide:

• What are the things you need to give up when you begin a recovery program?

• What are you adding to your life when you are in recovery?

• What are the barriers to maintaining drug abstinence?

CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO LISTEN TO PODCAST:

Staying Clean Is Not Easy: Barriers to Long Term Abstinence

(after clicking above link, open page and click PLAY at the top of page)

Supplementary Reading:

J. Kelly, J. R. McKay, A Plante, The Fix, Remove the Barriers to Addiction Recovery, 

We Stayed Clean, You Can Too!  Contact your Doctor or sign up with a DO Internal Medicine Doctor.  These are better than MDs, because they believe in fixing the underlying problem versus ‘patching it’ with medicines.  My DO Doctor saved my life and helped me prevent relapse.  He explained how the brain works and the vital importance of brain chemicals called Neuro-transmitters.  Some examples are:  Dopamine & Serotonin.  There are four major brain chemicals.  Anyway, my Doctor had me take a test called the “Braverman Test” and figure out which of my brain chemicals were depleted.  You see, when you use opiates for a long period of time it begins to replace your dopamine therefore your brain stops producing it naturally.  This isn’t good.  Because when you stop taking opiates your brain doesn’t just start naturally producing Dopamine again which means you go without.  Going without Dopamine, or a major imbalance creates depression and a state of despair feeling 24 hours a day.  You then relapse to feel better.  Check out the Test and Supplements you need to avoid this brain chemical imbalance.  Re-balance your neuro-transmitters after you take the Test and know which ones you lack.  You might lack several.  The test will also give you an idea of how severe your depletion of brain chemicals is.  This is a general test and not a diagnosis. * Contact your Doctor To Verify.

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