There are many pathways to recovery from a substance use disorder or SUD (sometimes called addiction). Your pathway(s) will depend on the severity of your SUD, motivation to change and goals. For more severe SUDs, recovery is often a long-term process involving change in different areas of life.

This workbook can help you identify and manage high-risk factors and early warning signs of relapse. Strategies to manage cravings, social pressures, anger, and boredom are reviewed. Using these strategies in your daily recovery can help you deal with the challenges of recovery. The importance of a long-term recovery plan is stressed.

This workbook will encourage you to examine the need to balance your life and take quick action if you have a setback and relapse. It ends with a summary of coping strategies that many have used to improve their recovery and reduce relapse risk. This workbook is based on research, clinical and recovery writings, and my decades of clinical experience. Many treatment programs have used this for years, and it has been translated to other languages.