How many people actaually stay clean?

[Spucky]

My Cat had a old-Study but can upload only the Abstract Version
because of the Copyrights!

This showed "hard Numbers" because every Number is a real Person,
but please don`t forget that this is only a Statistic and nothing more,
maybe Swiny and Swim + "the Others" are something Special and outside of "normality",
the Gaijin`s of every Statistic and Averages!

Detoxification treatment has reached an important significance among the supply of treatments for opiod dependents since 1991.
Qualified detoxification treatment has made possible admissions and discharges without direct inpatient abstinent orientated treatment.
More and more acknowledge the relapse as a sequence of opiod dependency. Follow-ups after detoxification therapies are rare.

Method: During the period from 2005 to 2007, all patients, who had completed successfully their detoxification treatment,
were regularly asked, if they had relapsed or if they had been living without drugs.
The patients were divided into two groups: group 1 consisted of those patients who participated afterwards in an inpatient treatment;
whereas group 2 consisted of those who did not participate in any further therapies.

Results: 42.6% of all patients who completed the qualified detoxification treatment successfully. 197 of those were allocated in group 1 and 217 in group 2.
One week after having been discharged, 11% of group 1 and already 53% of group 2 had relapsed.
Three month after discharge, 48% of group 1 and 85% of group 2 had relapsed.
After 12 month, 84% of group 1 and 94% of group 2 had relapsed.
1.9% of all patients died within one year after their discharge.

Discussion and conclusion: The superiority at the beginning, concerning the abstinence of the therapy-group, declines and adjusts to the non-therapy group within one year, after discharge. But the abstinence of the therapy-group keeps superior with 16% to 6%. With qualified detoxification treatment, mortality can be kept, almost as low as with a substitution therapy. Longer periods of observation are aspired.

http://www.ecomed-medizin.de/sj/sfp/...rtikelId/10751

Reputation Comments on this post:

interesting statistics that people SHOULD NOT get disillusioned by.

[Grimfaith]

Heroin is a hard addiction, SWIM had a friend who use to shoot up all the time then went to rehab to find people shooting up in the rehab houses! Even now when SWIM sees him SWIM can tell he still uses it even now, probably not as often but yeah. Seems like he REALLY went down hill when he started shooting up though, very horrible. He was a 7 year addict.

[Spucky]

My Cat like to say that a Relapse is typical for the "Disease of Addiction",
People don`t have to break down everything after a Time on Heroin again!

Important it is to minimize the Dangers,
this is only possible with a Brain that is on Caution!
Also a Relapse can be a good Sign that the Brain is doing a Check-Up
(like a Computer when he is Rebooting)

Don`t give up after a Relapse, it`s not a shame and not a Sign of a poor Will,
it`s just a Symptom of swiny Disease!

Ganbatte

Edit: Imo. there is no "Instant-Solution" with the Addiction,
a Relapse is typical!
We can grow up/ out and make the Time between a real Addiction and a Relapse bigger and bigger.
Just start with a Day, than a Week, a Month and a Year.

Reputation Comments on this post:

Good info about relapse not being the end of the world.

[missparkles]

Sparkles totally agrees with Spucky. Recovery from addiction is a work in progress, not an immediate cure in most cases. When people quit drugs they see any mistake as something huge, a personal failure, and relapse becomes a possibility as a result.
If a person goes for a job interview but doesn't get the job, they don't view it as a personal failure, just that they weren't equipped with the skills and info to be successful. Recovery is just like that. A relapse is just not having enough info, or the skills required to maintain recovery.
Like a job interview, learn what else you could need, prep for it, do everything you can think of to be successful next time.
But never forget...if swiy does relapse when they get up the next day it's in the past. Just start again. Bit like a diet really.

Take care.
Sparkles.


OMFG...who mentioned food. Sparkles is thinking...donuts. An no...she still don't wanna discuss it.