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Follow on Google News | Drug And Alcohol Addiction - Oasis Centre5 Tips for Staying Clean Over the Festive Season
By: Oasis Centre Here are five tips compiled by Oasis Counselling Centre for staying clean during the festive season: 1. Work your 12 Step programme A 12 Step programme offers addicts everything they need to stay clean. If you apply yourself to your 12 Step fellowship, you will get through the holidays clean, serene, and able to enjoy the excitement of the festive period. 2. Pick up the phone If you find yourself craving drugs or alcohol, call someone immediately. By the time the conversation has ended, the feeling will most likely have passed. Make sure that you have important numbers saved and that you always have airtime to make a call in case you begin to experience a craving. 3. Have an escape plan The holiday season sometimes seems like one party after another. If you feel unstable and vulnerable in your sobriety, turn down an invitation. Your sobriety is worth more than a disappointed host. For those functions you cannot excuse yourself from, have a 'plan B'. This means that if you feel your sobriety may be in danger, make sure you can leave and get to a safe place. Keep your phone on you so you can call someone immediately and arrange to meet with them to talk through the craving. 4. Be good to yourself Late nights, sunburn, dehydration, over-indulgence: 5. Don't panic This part is simple but difficult: RELAX. You got into recovery to get your life back on track, not to live like a hermit, afraid of seeing anyone for fear you might relapse. This doesn't mean that painting the town red is good idea. It simply means that if you are suddenly faced with an uncomfortable situation, empower yourself by realising that you have a choice as to whether to use or not, and that you are making healthy choices - choices that don't include alcohol or drugs. Mark Bowey, addictions counsellor at Oasis Counselling Centre says, "The festive season is a high-risk period for recovering addicts and alcoholics. But many stay clean because, in working a 12 Step programme, they get incredible support, tools and an outlook on life that helps them to be a part of society, without having to use." Find out more about staying clean through working a programme of recovery at Oasis Counselling Centre in Plettenberg Bay. # # # Oasis Counselling Centre is a rehab with addiction recovery counsellors for treating drug addiction and alcoholism for prolonged abstinence, even through the festive season. End
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