You leave and then what?

If you’ve spent a month or more in a facility you will be leaving a safe environment. There is no alcohol in the venue and while you may be free to leave at any time, staff keep a very strict 24/7 monitoring system knowing where every patient is at every hour of the day and night..

So your stay is successful. You are detoxed and feel great after your stay. But the real world beckons. Out there are all sorts of temptations to enjoy a drink. And the clinic would be failing in its duty if it did not send each patient out with a plan to avoid a relapse..

The program is known generally as ‘after care’ and it is detailed and effective. You would be appointed a counsellor or carer. You would have regular meetings with this person and be able to contact them in an emergency at any time. If your drinking problem was serious and moving straight back into society was considered too great a step, you could go to what are known as a halfway house. Here you live with other recovering but now non-drinkers and are cared for over a period of time. In other words your release back into the world is done slowly and through a serious of carefully monitored steps.



For more information on how to stop drinking alcohol please go to the next article.