Lesson 19: Changing Your View Of Your World: Slide  24

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How Will You Make Decisions?

  • Fact: Each day that a person succeeds in maintaining abstinence greatly improves the probability of success after quitting
  • Would you advise yourself or someone else to leave rehab early?
  • 2. Fact: After 5 years of sobriety, the risk of having a relapse is about the same as the risk for someone in the general population experiencing addiction in the first place
  • How long would you advise staying abstinent after quitting?
  • Write down your thoughts

Notes:

Pg. 124 & 147 ”Your Mental Health,” Allen Frances, M.D. and Michael B. First, M.D., Scribner, New York, 1998

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