recovery programs

Structured healing efforts

Recovery programs are structured efforts to help people overcome addiction, trauma, or other serious difficulties.

The term most often refers to substance abuse treatment—twelve-step programs, rehabilitation centers, or outpatient counseling: She's been in a recovery program for six months.

Recovery programs also exist for mental health, eating disorders, and compulsive behaviors.

In computing, a recovery program restores lost data or system function after a crash.

Opposites
treatment approach

recovery programscold turkey

Immediate complete cessation

going it alone · white-knuckling · relapse

trajectory/direction

recovery programsrelapse

Return to former illness

substance abuse · using · drug abuse · hitting bottom · alcoholism

institutional stance

recovery programsincarceration

Confinement in jail

criminalization · mandatory sentencing · prison · penal system · neglect

Family

program, recover, recovery, programmatic

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