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Give your thoughts on preventing relapse following a period of sobriety, including the term "HALT" and the value of critical thinking in maintaining recovery after treatment in your post.

Would you consider applying the concept of spiritual healing in your practice?

As a practitioner, do you think it would be more challenging to treat an addicted teen or an addicted elderly person? Explain your answer

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This solution discusses relapse and sobriety, including the HALT method of change and recovery.

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The acronym HALT, is basically a tool to help the person engaged in treatment at any level of care to remember self-care and how changing one's life is what makes recovery both difficult and rewarding. Recovery is difficult because we really have to change in life what is no longer working and reinforcing healthy or adaptive behaviors. Also, change is difficult, even good change. In fact, statistics show that one in eight Americans is addicted to drugs or alcohol and 40% of them have a concurrent nervous/mental disorder.

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The first step toward recovery is detox; Take for example alcohol or cocaine, or methamphetamine. This means in many cases is done on an inpatient basis in a hospital because it requires a medically monitored ...

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