Relapse statistics 2020

What is the relapse rate after inpatient treatment?

Many studies have shown relapse rates of approximately 50% within the first 12 weeks after completion of intensive inpatient programs that often last 4 to 12 weeks or more and can cost tens of thousands of dollars. [4][5]Despite a wide range of services available, there have been no standard relapse prevention programs established.

What are the stages of relapse?

Providers have long recognized that relapse is a process rather than an event. Some relapse prevention programs have delineated stages of relapse, starting with an “emotional relapse” followed by a “mental relapse” and culminating in a “physical relapse.”

What is drug relapse?

The origins of the definition of drug relapse come from a medical model that viewed addiction like a disease: a patient returns to a state of sickness after a period of remission 5. As the definition evolved, it came to encapsulate the process that leads people in recovery to return to their drug abuse.