People who have successfully kicked their substance use disorder have access to a wider variety of resources, including therapists, support groups, and organizations, which together form their support system. After a patient has completed a treatment program for drugs or alcohol, a wide variety of supporters come together to form a continuous support system for the patient, with the intention of preventing the patient from returning to drug or alcohol use. The goal of this support system is to keep the patient from using drugs or alcohol again. The collective name for all of these different kinds of help and tools for recovery is called sobriety supports. One more way to think about sobriety supports is as a network of services that you will make use of on the way to becoming sober. This is an alternative way to think about sobriety supports.
There is a vast variety of support available, including but not limited to meetings based on the 12-step program, alternative forms of group counseling, a broad spectrum of therapeutic techniques, homes for sober people, and much more. Let's figure out where your resources are and how to get to them, shall we? Support groups for those recovering from addiction typically take the form of twelve-step programs, the most well-known example of which is Alcoholics Anonymous (AA).
