Rejection From Society
Recovery is the first step Making it through your recovery is one of the most challenging steps in regaining your life. Addiction is a brutal monster to defeat, and fight- ing your demons will only make you a stronger person. However, reentering society is another battle on its own. With a lack of understanding and bad reputation, many people tend to push former addicts to the side. The stigma of former addicts includes words like dirty and untrustworthy. This stigma creates difficulty in find- ing jobs, building relationships, and finding education. “When people are addressing addiction to drugs and alcohol, they often operate under the misconception that all they have to do is beat addiction by going to rehab and experiencing recovery in
that way, just the one time. What they do not understand is that beat- ing addiction, rejoining society after rehab, and staying clean and sober for life is an ongoing conquest and activity that they will have to keep working at potentially indefinitely,” Says Behavioral Rehabilitation ser- vices. A Stigma still stands Rebuilding trust in the community will be difficult, mainly depending on how your addiction affected your relationships. “Demonstrate through your actions that you
are someone to be relied upon, and little by little, people will trust you again. Becoming a valued member of society after a long time on the outside is an uphill
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