As if having to face your addiction wasn’t enough, your recent slip or possible heroin relapse can be just as hard to deal with. You’re beating yourself up; you’re ashamed to face the friends and family members who’ve helped you enter detox and rehab the first time around. Trying to hide your guilt and shame only makes you sink deeper into heroin use. You’re a failure—or are you?
Heroin Relapse Doesn’t Make You a Failure!
A heroin relapse may simply be a sign that you’re human. Chinese researchers suggested that returning home after treatment, where you may have previously engaged in pre-rehab heroin use, can easily trigger relapse. Fighting your cravings in an environment that reminds you of your old drug-induced euphoria can cause even the strongest man to cave. What matters now is your next move.
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Tackling a Heroin Relapse Head On
Now that it’s time to regroup, remember that heroin addiction is a disease and not an exercise in free choice. Even though you’ve already lived through addiction’s destructive phases, made it through withdrawal symptoms, and attended a program to help you maintain long-term sobriety, heroin’s lure proved too difficult to resist. That puts you in good company. Not everyone who seeks treatment and completes it will remain free from an occasional slip.
Even after a lengthy sobriety period, a number of triggers can contribute to a relapse.
- Prescription drugs. Using an opioid painkiller after a dental procedure, surgery or injury can trigger a relapse.
- Stress management. If life dealt you back-to-back stressors, it’s possible used heroin as a way to cope. Whether you experienced personal tragedies, professional turmoil or a health scare in tandem, these events often cause people to relapse.
- Scheduling problems. With work getting busier, maybe you skipped a few support meetings here and there. Before long, lacking accountability and a safe platform to deal with life’s stresses paved the way for a slip-up.
No matter what caused your recent heroin relapse, now’s the time to get back with the program.
How to Handle Heroin Relapse
It’s possible that you need to go through another detoxification process. Next, it makes sense to attend a high-quality rehab facility to regain your focus. At Serenity Lodge in Lake Arrowhead, California, our setting focuses on establishing—and reestablishing—healthy, productive habits for sustainable recovery. Clients have an opportunity to stay at our peaceful 22-acre facility and reorder their priorities. Workshops support your goal of regaining sobriety. Spending time with like-minded men who’ve been through, or are going through, the same issues is a key component to clawing your way out from under addiction’s thumb again.
Make the Decision to Get Help Today
Serenity Lodge gives you the opportunity to put your heroin relapse behind you. Yes, it happened; but so did the decision you made to get back up. When you contact our specialists, we’ll help you get back on track and regain control of your life in a judgement-free zone.
Whether it’s a residential inpatient, partial hospitalization or intensive outpatient program, we’ll help you find you the right support system and teach you how to prevent relapse in the future.
Put your heroin relapse in the past and work toward reestablishing your recovery. Call Serenity Lodge today at (855) 932-4045 to get started.
