Relapse prevention plan

Most addicts experience relapse at some point during their recovery. When this happens, it is helpful to analyse what went wrong so that we can learn from any mistakes and devise our own personal strategy for preventing another relapse in the future.
 
 
Describe the events in your life one week to one month prior to relapse.

• What was happening with your work, or at school, university?
• What was happening with you and your family?
• What was occurring between you and your friends? Were they using or clean friends?
• How was your fellowship attendance?
• How were you feeling physically?
• Describe your emotional stability or instability before using. List two feelings you continue to experience.

Decipher the events in your life on the day of your relapse.

• What did you do on the day of your relapse?
• Who did you talk to on the day of your relapse?
• How did you feel physically on the day?
• How did you feel emotionally on the day?
• What did you drink/use/eat/gamble/buy/smoke or who did you sleep with or contact?
• Where and with whom did you use?
• What reasons did you give yourself for relapsing?
• How did you feel immediately after the first drink, pill, snort, smoke, sexual act, text or fix?

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