Addiction and relapse… Today we are going to talk about what I consider to be the bane of the treatment of the disease of addiction. We are going to talk about relapse. Like most of the chronic diseases that we know of in medicine, addiction could be considered a chronic and remitting, relapsing disease. In other words, it’s normal for the disease process to re-activate over time. It can even re-activate after it has gone temporarily into remission. Unfortunately, with addiction, relapses can result in death. And it only takes one relapse to result in death. So, the goal has always been to decrease the relapse rates for this disease. If we look at traditional outcomes for treating people with the disease of addiction relapse is clearly the norm, it is not the exception by any means. In fact, although we don’t have good numbers for any of this, probably around 85-86% of people relapse after they get into formal treatment for the disease of addiction.
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