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My son returns home from rehab next week. He’s confident he’ll be able to stay sober, but I’m worried. All of his stressors (a precarious job, a custody battle with his ex-wife, financial problems, etc.) are still there. Is there anything we can do to help him stay sober?

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I’m trying to help a very good friend of mine who is an alcoholic. Even though she has relapsed several times before, insurance would only pay for 15 days of residential treatment. I stayed with her for several days after she got back from treatment and she seemed totally committed to staying sober. However, I’m ~99% sure she started drinking again the day I left. ☹

She’s going to AA, but I don’t think it’s going to be enough. I’d like to help her find a good sober living home that will give her more support. I did a little Googling but I don’t know what I’m looking for. Can you help?

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I discovered my son was addicted to Oxycontin when he was kicked out of college for failing too many classes. Fortunately, we were able to talk him into going to rehab and, three weeks later, he seems like his old self again. I'm so relieved! He's begging us to let him come home, but his counselor thinks he should stay there and go to intensive outpatient. What should we do?

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Conquer Addiction's History

Do you have a question about how to help someone you love recover from addiction? Ask it here and we'll use what we've learned monitoring 75,000+ patients during addiction treatment and following up with more than 28,000 after they discharged to answer:

Conquer Addiction was created as a result of our family’s searing journey trying to find our daughter the help she needed to recover from severe alcoholism. As we’ve talked with other families during and after these scary years, we’ve learned that most of us were forced to rely on chance conversations and blind luck to find help for our sons and daughters. With a disease in which second chances are never guaranteed, this is totally unacceptable!

Today, dozens of progressive rehabs are measuring and working to improve the effectiveness of their treatment. With immense gratitude to the addiction treatment community that played such a critical role in helping Karina recover, Joanna and Karina converted Conquer Addiction, Inc. into a nonprofit and officially launched this website and directory in June 2020.

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