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Personalized Relapse Prevention in Hawaii
At Hawaii Island Recovery, our programs serve individuals 18 and older and help them develop essential skills for effective relapse prevention. By gaining awareness of warning signs, cravings, triggers, stressors, and risk factors, people build practical strategies that directly translate to maintaining sobriety.
Guided by our expert clinical team, we use a collaborative approach to create individualized treatment plans that integrate evidence-based therapies with holistic practices. Patients engage in counseling, group sessions, and wellness activities like yoga and meditation to promote mindfulness and resilience. Set in the stunning Hawaiian landscape, our programs empower guests to build a strong foundation for lasting recovery.
Guided by our expert clinical team, we use a collaborative approach to create individualized treatment plans that integrate evidence-based therapies with holistic practices. Patients engage in counseling, group sessions, and wellness activities like yoga and meditation to promote mindfulness and resilience. Set in the stunning Hawaiian landscape, our programs empower guests to build a strong foundation for lasting recovery.
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Understanding Relapse in Addiction Recovery
While the risk of relapse is always possible, it is also not guaranteed to occur or inevitable. Relapse prevention therapy is all about finding the right recovery support system, planning, and care that helps identify warning signs, prevent relapse, and wholly focus on your successful sober life free from the effects of substance use disorders.
However, in the unfortunate event of a relapse, your journey to recovery is not over. Experiencing a relapse in addiction recovery does not mean that you are somehow “beyond” a healthy, sober future, but it is a sign that new plans are needed to address changing needs, stressors, risk factors, and goals in a sober life.
However, in the unfortunate event of a relapse, your journey to recovery is not over. Experiencing a relapse in addiction recovery does not mean that you are somehow “beyond” a healthy, sober future, but it is a sign that new plans are needed to address changing needs, stressors, risk factors, and goals in a sober life.
Whole-Person Healing Rooted in Hawaii
Hawaii Island Recovery takes a whole-person approach to healing, recognizing the connection between mind, body, and spirit. From detox and residential treatment to IOP and aftercare, patients are supported in a close-knit community and a setting that reflects the culture, environment, and spirit of Hawaii.
Intimate, Individualized Care
With no more than eight patients at a time, we offer a highly personalized setting where each person can receive focused attention, develop meaningful relationships with staff, and work toward lasting change.
Mind, Body, and
Spirit
Healing extends beyond addressing substance use. Patients can participate in evidence-based therapies alongside yoga, meditation, acupuncture, massage, fitness, nutrition, and other services that support physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual well-being.
The Healing Environment of Hawaii
Located in Kailua-Kona, we incorporate our island setting into the recovery experience. Local culture, community, and cuisine are woven into programming to help patients experience recovery as a way of living, not simply a period of treatment.
A Connected Continuum of Care
We offer detox, residential treatment, and IOP, creating a pathway for patients to receive ongoing support as their needs change. Continuing care and aftercare remain an important part of helping each person carry the work of healing into everyday life.
Community as Part of Recovery
Recovery happens in relationships with others. We foster a strong sense of community where patients can build connections, practice healthy ways of relating, and develop a support system that can extend beyond their time in residential care.
A Foundation for Life Beyond Treatment
The goal is not simply to complete a program, but to help patients move toward greater self-reliance, purpose, and freedom from substance dependence. Our holistic approach gives patients space to discover how recovery can fit into the life they want to build.
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Hawaii’s only licensed addiction treatment center accredited by both The Joint Commission and CARF.
Who Can Benefit From Relapse Prevention?
Understanding what relapse is can empower you to best prepare for stresses, triggers, and challenges that may impact your chances of relapse throughout your time in substance abuse treatment. We can work with you and your family to establish an effective relapse prevention program for a sustainable, healthy sobriety.
Relapse prevention is especially beneficial if you are transitioning between levels of care, whether you have just completed residential treatment and are moving to outpatient care or are seeking an aftercare relapse prevention program. Additionally, relapse prevention treatment can help with continuing long-term recovery if you are experiencing cravings or increased stress, navigating major life changes, returning to stressful environments, or managing co-occurring mental health conditions.
Recovery support, within a structured support system, helps reduce the risk of relapse, protecting your sobriety in times of need.
Relapse prevention is especially beneficial if you are transitioning between levels of care, whether you have just completed residential treatment and are moving to outpatient care or are seeking an aftercare relapse prevention program. Additionally, relapse prevention treatment can help with continuing long-term recovery if you are experiencing cravings or increased stress, navigating major life changes, returning to stressful environments, or managing co-occurring mental health conditions.
Recovery support, within a structured support system, helps reduce the risk of relapse, protecting your sobriety in times of need.
Recognizing the Warning Signs of Relapse
Noticing early signs of relapse in yourself or your loved one can be crucial in preventing the more destructive elements of relapse. Recognizing signs early during emotional or mental relapse can help you maintain a healthy, hard-earned sobriety while still addressing these challenges and preventing them from resulting in a return to the use of drugs or alcohol. Awareness of potential signs of relapse is paramount in enacting a relapse prevention program.
Emotional and Mental Warning Signs
Identifying emotional and psychological signs of relapse can be the first sign that you need to take action to either address these challenges yourself or help a loved one through these difficult times. These signs include:
- Increased feelings of anxiety, depression, stress, guilt, doubt, or mood swings
- Noticeable increase in the frequency or intensity of urges or cravings
- Overconfidence in recovery, or feeling that you are “cured” of addiction
- Feeling isolated from friends, family, and support
- Rationalizing past substance use
Behavioral Warning Signs
Potential relapse can also be identified by noticing changes in behavior in daily life. These behavioral signs of relapse include:
- Skipping out on recovery meetings
- Self-isolation practices, secretive behavior, or emotional suppression
- Attending high-risk situations, even if under the pretense of trying to “test” yourself and your sober skills
- Connecting with people or social groups who may not support sobriety, or who were tied to past use of drugs or alcohol
- Difficulty managing daily responsibilities, either in professional life or at home
Physical and Lifestyle Warning Signs
Early signs of potential relapse can also be identified through physical signs. These commonly include:
- Unhealthy diet
- Lack of sleep
- Poor self-care
- Physical and emotional fatigue
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Building Your Relapse Prevention Plan
Hawaii Island Recovery offers personalized relapse prevention programs, working with you every step of the way to find your collection of skills, strategies, and support for addressing addiction. We will help you identify specific triggers, risk factors, strengths, goals, and the level of support you need to maintain a healthy, sober life beyond the treatment facility.
Identifying Triggers and High-Risk Situations
Rehab and effective relapse prevention strategies are personalized plans to address personal triggers and high-risk situations. Relapse is possible across all levels of care, and while it affects each person differently, no one is immune. This includes recognizing common triggers, such as people, places, emotions, stressors, routines, or situations that are associated with your past drug or alcohol use.
Increased feelings of anxiety, depression, guilt, and more also affect your mental health and can have an impact on your hard-earned sobriety. Recognizing signs of relapse by working alongside peers and clinicians to explore evidence-based and mindfulness-based relapse prevention strategies is necessary to maintain each person’s hard-earned sober lifestyle. Additionally, maintaining connection with a treatment center helps you receive the support you need when you need it.
Increased feelings of anxiety, depression, guilt, and more also affect your mental health and can have an impact on your hard-earned sobriety. Recognizing signs of relapse by working alongside peers and clinicians to explore evidence-based and mindfulness-based relapse prevention strategies is necessary to maintain each person’s hard-earned sober lifestyle. Additionally, maintaining connection with a treatment center helps you receive the support you need when you need it.
Developing Coping Skills
Coping strategies to address stress, anxiety, depression, and more are essential to every recovery journey. Working with an addiction and mental health professional to find your best coping strategies can help you address early signs of relapse and overcome these challenges without returning to the use of drugs or alcohol.
Learning how to cope with challenges is a personal journey and can vary from person to person. However, learning mindfulness practices and self-care are commonly effective. Examples include developing healthy sleep routines, hobbies, breathing exercises, engaging in creative outlets, practicing gratitude, journaling, and more. In drug relapse prevention and alcohol relapse prevention at Hawaii Island Recovery, we can help you develop effective coping skills.
Learning how to cope with challenges is a personal journey and can vary from person to person. However, learning mindfulness practices and self-care are commonly effective. Examples include developing healthy sleep routines, hobbies, breathing exercises, engaging in creative outlets, practicing gratitude, journaling, and more. In drug relapse prevention and alcohol relapse prevention at Hawaii Island Recovery, we can help you develop effective coping skills.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing
Each aspect of your treatment and recovery from alcohol addiction, opioids, and opioid use disorder (OUD), heroin addiction, or any form of addiction is personalized to your needs and goals. We incorporate ongoing cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help identify your unique thoughts and behaviors associated with substance use. Additionally, we use motivational interviewing (MI) to help you strengthen your own motivation for recovery and change.
Mindfulness and Holistic Support for Relapse Prevention
Combining effective coping skills with mindfulness practices and holistic support can empower you to identify stress and take action to safely and effectively process these challenges without drugs or alcohol. Mindfulness-based relapse prevention and holistic support improve emotional awareness, stress management, and help build healthy coping skills.
At Hawaii Island Recovery, we incorporate these practices into everyday life in rehab. The wealth of professionals and peers can be paramount in helping you explore new ideas, perspectives, and strategies in your sober life.
At Hawaii Island Recovery, we incorporate these practices into everyday life in rehab. The wealth of professionals and peers can be paramount in helping you explore new ideas, perspectives, and strategies in your sober life.
Strengthening Your Support System
Addiction can often come with feelings of isolation, but overcoming addiction is never a journey for a single person. Having social support from peers and professionals, along with addressing underlying mental health needs, trauma, guilt, and more, is crucial for healing.
We offer a robust community of support that can help you navigate stress and prevent relapse at any stage of your healing journey. Additionally, working with peers in support groups, group therapy, and experiential therapy, and exploring family therapy programs, helps you build a strong support network to challenge urges and cravings and prevent relapse. Working alongside these supportive people and developing effective communication strategies is part of building a strong support network to prevent relapse.
We offer a robust community of support that can help you navigate stress and prevent relapse at any stage of your healing journey. Additionally, working with peers in support groups, group therapy, and experiential therapy, and exploring family therapy programs, helps you build a strong support network to challenge urges and cravings and prevent relapse. Working alongside these supportive people and developing effective communication strategies is part of building a strong support network to prevent relapse.
Family and Loved One Support
Our relapse prevention programs offer family support, helping family members recognize warning signs and support healthy recovery without taking responsibility for their loved one. Practicing effective communication with family members empowers them to be more effective, active supports in your recovery journey, helping to prevent relapse and make necessary changes to manage stress and further develop these important relationships.
Peer Support
We believe in the healing potential of community and working with peers. Peer support, especially in dedicated LGBTQ+ programs and veterans programs at Hawaii Island Recovery, can give you the understanding and sense of belonging necessary to maintain sober change. Our community, mentorship, and camaraderie are part of Hawaii’s healing energy and spirit, and are resources for your sober journey.
Evidence-Based Relapse Prevention Strategies
Relapse is not necessarily a part of every recovery journey, but having an effective relapse plan alongside professionals, family, friends, and supports can help you maintain your sober transformation in recovery. Preventing relapse means putting in a comprehensive effort to address a multitude of stresses and challenges.
Managing Stress and Emotional Triggers
While stress is a part of life, knowing how to process it can prevent alcohol or drug use from becoming a coping strategy once again. Self-care, communication techniques with trusted loved ones, healthy physical exercise routines, setting goals, and managing expectations can all help to address these feelings and maintain a healthy sobriety and daily life.
Managing Cravings
Cravings are a normal part of recovery, and as such, managing cravings is an important aspect of a relapse prevention program. While medication is not a replacement for therapy and personalized care, options like naltrexone, methadone, or buprenorphine, while under the supervision of professionals, can provide an additional layer of support to cope with cravings.
Avoiding or Preparing for High-Risk Situations
Recognizing high-risk situations can help you avoid unnecessary risks or recognize when you may be overconfident or unnecessarily risking your hard-earned sobriety.
Practicing Healthy Self-Care
Your relapse prevention program will be unique, and there is never a “one-size-fits-all” approach to anything in addiction recovery. Exploring personal options and creating your own set of skills to address your unique challenges, stresses, and needs is the best way to both prevent relapse and make the most of your daily sober life.
Relapse Prevention Across Levels of Care
Long before a person reengages with drugs or alcohol, the steps of relapse begin, and effective relapse prevention techniques developed alongside family, friends, supports, and the levels of care at Hawaii Island Recovery can help you address relapse before ever using these destructive substances again.
Residential Treatment
We offer relapse prevention treatment without residential care by addressing root causes of substance abuse and addiction and helping you build effective skills to manage. Relapse prevention strategies do not begin after treatment, but are built into effective treatment programs.
Outpatient Treatment
Our outpatient program helps support the transition from residential care to everyday life. Outpatient care supports ongoing skill development that began in residential treatment.
Aftercare and Continuing Support
While relapse is most common during the earliest stages of recovery, such as during alcohol or drug withdrawal, nobody is immune to stress or relapse at any stage. Hawaii Island Recovery understands that genuine sober life is a lifelong journey, and we offer ongoing outpatient care and aftercare options to help you continue to focus on your sober healing and journey.
What Happens If Relapse Occurs?
While the goal is to avoid relapse, if a relapse occurs, all your previous recovery work is not lost. Instead, it is an opportunity to reassess risk factors and needs, with the potential to increase clinical support as needed. Detox and treatment after relapse is commonly necessary, as returning to substance use can carry significant medical risks, particularly with opioids. However, treatment after relapse will focus on finding the appropriate level of care to address your current needs.
Meet Your Treatment Team
Stephen H. Denzer, M.D., FACP
Medical Director | Board Certified in Addiction and Internal Medicine
Frank Capatch, LCSW
Clinical Director & Lead Therapist
Fernando Manon, MSED., CSAC
Therapist
David Molletti, BS, NCACI, CFTP
Operations Coordinator and Family Therapist
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FAQs
What is relapse?
Relapse occurs when a person returns to the use of drugs or alcohol after receiving treatment for substance abuse or substance use disorder (SUD). However, it is more than just beginning to drink after treatment for alcohol dependence or using drugs again after drug addiction treatment programs. Rather, it is a return to the lifestyles, perspectives, habits, and daily routines that accompany substance abuse and addiction. This return to both substance use and self-destructive behaviors can be difficult to address and often demands a return to some level of professional care.
Returning to detox and treatment to explore not just the reasons behind the relapse, but also to develop new strategies to prevent relapse in the future, is necessary. However, you do not necessarily have to “restart” your entire sober journey. Rather, you can work with professionals to explore what worked and what areas may need more development to continue your sober journey, returning to inpatient care or outpatient treatment depending on your needs.
Returning to detox and treatment to explore not just the reasons behind the relapse, but also to develop new strategies to prevent relapse in the future, is necessary. However, you do not necessarily have to “restart” your entire sober journey. Rather, you can work with professionals to explore what worked and what areas may need more development to continue your sober journey, returning to inpatient care or outpatient treatment depending on your needs.
What are the stages of relapse?
Relapse begins with emotional relapse, where you may begin to self-isolate from supports, friends, and family, and even skip out on outpatient care meetings and support groups like Narcotics Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous, or other local communities. A person may not necessarily be considering using drugs or alcohol again at this time, but can experience an increase in mood swings, anxiety, stress, depression, or irritability, and compromised self-care routines, making addressing these feelings and challenges more difficult.
The next stage of relapse is mental relapse, where ideas of past drug and alcohol use become more prevalent, and the romanticization of past use or minimizing the destructive effects that they had on your life. You may also minimize the risk of drugs or alcohol in your sober life, and even develop a plan to use drugs or alcohol again without loved ones knowing, such as planning what opportunities you may have to use drugs or alcohol, or even creating these situations for yourself.
Lastly, there is physical relapse, the stage that is most commonly thought of when “relapse” is discussed. However, you may not just use drugs or alcohol, but return to the lifestyles that enable this level of use. Using drugs and alcohol, as well as losing control over how much, how often, and the effects that this substance use has on your life, is common during this stage. It is also common to return to a high level of substance use quickly, bringing a myriad of dangers, including a risk of overdose.
The next stage of relapse is mental relapse, where ideas of past drug and alcohol use become more prevalent, and the romanticization of past use or minimizing the destructive effects that they had on your life. You may also minimize the risk of drugs or alcohol in your sober life, and even develop a plan to use drugs or alcohol again without loved ones knowing, such as planning what opportunities you may have to use drugs or alcohol, or even creating these situations for yourself.
Lastly, there is physical relapse, the stage that is most commonly thought of when “relapse” is discussed. However, you may not just use drugs or alcohol, but return to the lifestyles that enable this level of use. Using drugs and alcohol, as well as losing control over how much, how often, and the effects that this substance use has on your life, is common during this stage. It is also common to return to a high level of substance use quickly, bringing a myriad of dangers, including a risk of overdose.
