When you get out of a drug rehab program, how and where do you find the next level of help to keep you growing and prevent relapse?

How to identify help and resources required for your plan

The areas of your life that require assistance

Whether it is relationships, work or school, home or community, communication or physical, mental and spiritual areas of our lives, we all sometimes need to access specialized knowledge or skills.

Choosing the paint on our walls or the running shoes we wear, depending on our experience and knowledge, we may need or just desire some advice.

Three Possible Areas of Assistance

Professionals: from lawyers to architects
Therapists: from communication to eating disorders
Family and friends: from crisis management to exercise

Professional Advice

The best kind of advisor is someone who is sympathetic to your goals but who retains enough detachment to give you realistic answers to questions, not just the answers you may want to hear.

Take the time to go through your life goals and identify those with which you may need one time or regular ongoing advice or assistance.

Finding the Right Professional

It’s smart to pinch pennies when you’re starting on your way to your life goals and that often means taking a do-it-yourself approach to new tasks.

But sometimes it’s best to spend the money to hire a pro.

That’s often the case when it comes to starting your own business, choosing a university or trade school, marital counselling, health concerns such as weight reduction, taxes and legal matters, career advice, or other consultants to help you meet your goals or prevent potential problems.

Finding the right type and quality of advice after rehab is another of the many many steps to sucessfully ending drug or alcohol abuse. All quality drug and alcohol rehab programs help you to start this process while still in rehab, but it all can’t be finished there. Over the next few day I’ll cover some more suggestions on ways to find those good advisors that can insure you continue to advance with the progress you made in your rehab or drug treatment program.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 12th, 2005 at 8:00 am and is filed under Drug Addiction, Drug Rehab. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.