| There is a big difference between getting and | | | | AA or NA meetings, attending private counseling |
| staying sober. And while many people suffering from | | | | sessions, and securing a sober living home. Each part |
| alcoholism and drug addiction think that all they need | | | | of your sober recovery plan will help you slowly |
| to do is stop drinking or using and they will be OK, | | | | regain your physical, emotional, and spiritual strength |
| this idea couldn't be further from the truth. Statistics | | | | while you build a new foundation in your new world |
| show that more than 90% of all people who stop | | | | of sobriety with healthy structure for every part of |
| drinking or using drugs relapse quickly when they do | | | | your new sober life, and with each new day you |
| not create and follow an aftercare recover plan. | | | | continue to stay sober you will see how important |
| Think of it like this; if you broke your leg and there | | | | your recovery plan was. |
| were serious complications that kept you from | | | | By going to 12th step meetings, you will be building |
| walking for a very long time, your doctor would | | | | and maintaining a support group of individuals that |
| prescribe a therapy program to help you regain | | | | have had the same problems and issues and know |
| strength in your leg and help you walk again, and you | | | | how you feel. Your support group is always there for |
| would defiantly undertake and follow this therapy | | | | you, and even late at night when the urge to drink or |
| program, but for the chronic alcoholic and drug addict, | | | | use drugs can be extremely hard, you will have |
| one of the ugly effects of this deadly disease makes | | | | phone numbers of your new friends in sobriety you |
| the alcoholic think he is OK, and doesn't need help, | | | | can call to help you get through that tough situation. |
| and even after quitting drinking without aftercare this | | | | Choosing to move into a sober living home will also |
| hideous disease will soon take over and he or she will | | | | help you with your day to day transition into your |
| again drink. | | | | new sober life, by having people close to you who |
| Depending how you got sober, there are many | | | | can help you when you have questions or issues pop |
| different ways that you could develop a recovery | | | | up. Sober living is also very important for men and |
| plan to continue and maintain your sobriety so that | | | | women who were once in abusive living situations, or |
| you can reenter your life and build upon the sobriety | | | | when the place there were living before they got |
| skills you have recently learned that help you to not | | | | sober is not a safe environment and where a spouse |
| drink or use drugs one day at a time. | | | | or loved one is still drinking or abusing drugs. |
| If you detoxed in a private care facility, then you will | | | | Your commitment to staying sober one day at a |
| have an aftercare specialist that will work with you | | | | time includes everything you do in your new sober |
| to build a aftercare plan that you will use when you | | | | life as well as following your recovery plan that will |
| leave the detox facility. The aftercare specialist will | | | | help you strengthen and reinforce your new life in |
| go over options for continuing your sobriety, such as | | | | sobriety...One day at a Time! |