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    The document discusses relapse and relapse prevention methods for substance abuse. It questions whether current approaches are effective at saving lives. It notes there is more opinion-based research on this topic than scientific answers. Additionally, it argues that medical terminology oversimplifies the complex process of addiction recovery, and that the words used to describe relapse can influence people in different ways and have detrimental effects.

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    The document discusses relapse and relapse prevention methods for substance abuse. It questions whether current approaches are effective at saving lives. It notes there is more opinion-based research on this topic than scientific answers. Additionally, it argues that medical terminology oversimplifies the complex process of addiction recovery, and that the words used to describe relapse can influence people in different ways and have detrimental effects.

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    Running head: RELAPSE AND RELAPSE PREVENTION

    Relapse and Its Prevention: Past & Current Methods, are they saving enough lives?

    By: Laura S. Solomon

    Guilford Technical Community College


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    Relapse and Its Prevention: Past & Current Methods, are they saving enough lives?

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    Others, Relapse and the prevention of relapse is more of a personal realm of

    discussion. For most everyone who has been in the path of substance use,

    abuse or dependence will vouch for that statement. There is more opinion based

    research on this topic than any real, factual or even scientific, answer to it. Are

    relapse, remission, and recovery the best terms for describing this complex

    process of overwhelming and problematic substance use and adapting a

    completely different lifestyle? This was a question asked in a specific piece of

    information that I read during the process of my research for this paper. I have

    my personal answer, which is; NOT really. Medical terminology definitely does

    oversimplify humanities tragic drug epidemic. I believe that “words”,

    unfortunately, influence people in drastic ways. If they (words) were all taken in

    the same context, by everyone who heard them, they wouldn’t have such a

    detrimental effect on the listener. Relapse may sound like failure to some, while

    to others’, like a learning experience. In “The Natural Mind” Weil (1986)


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    References

    Weil, A. T., Forrester, Jay W., Williams, J. Clifton, Walter, Mischel, People’s Daily, &

    Addiction Search (1971). "Counterintuitive Behavior of Social Systems". :

    Forrester, op.cit.
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