abstinence

What Are Relapse Triggers: Internal Vs External Relapse Triggers

Addiction relapse triggers in drug and alcohol abuse recovery are quickly becoming a major concern for inpatient and outpatient treatment addicts. Substance abuse triggers are internal and external cues that cause a person in recovery to crave drugs and often...

Opiate Replacement Therapy vs Abstinence

Two Approaches to Opiate Addiction Treatment This post is designed to compare two approaches to recovery from opioid addiction. The first is the abstinence-based treatment model, which insists that recovery can only be achieved if a person stops using drugs...