AHS Views

Contrary to popular belief, relapse is not a part of recovery. When an individual relapses after receiving drug addiction treatment it’s because the addiction help they received was incomplete – some vital element of rehabilitation was omitted.
 
Most of the time there are indications that the person may relapse. In fact, some will even say they’re planning on it.  Rock star Pete Doherty is the perfect example: when he was handed his suspended sentence he commented that there was no way he could stay out of legal trouble. Now there’s a video online of Doherty shooting heroin. That shouldn’t come as a surprise.

Although heroin addiction is not easy to overcome, if a drug rehab program is thoroughly done, there’s no reason why someone would relapse. The only solution is to do exactly what Doherty says he’s doing: get back into addiction help services until relapse is no longer a threat.