A relapse prevention plan is the difference on whether or not someone is going to achieve long term sobriety. Recovery from drugs and alcohol is a bumpy road but with an adequate relapse prevention plan put in place any circumstances can be overcome sober.

Relapse Prevention is crucial when it comes to recovering from any type of addiction. Tiger Woods can focus like no one else and if he is able to channel that energy and determination into his recovery I believe that he can be successful.

After a terrible and well publicized Christmas Eve with her husband Charlie Sheen, Brooke Mueller has checked herself into a drug rehab for alcohol and crack cocaine addiction. Mueller is going to have difficulties staying Sheen himself does not seek out help for his addictions or if she does not end up divorcing Sheen.

A drug abuse clinic can be effective even if the patient experiences relapse.