The study, financed in part by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, found that even the men who achieved periods of abstinence were still vulnerable to relapse.
An important part of the solution, Madras said, is prescreening patients for past addiction to see who might be vulnerable to relapse.
At his worst, he can be manipulative and short-tempered, a man vulnerable to relapse and, judging from his past, prone to violence.
The lesson of Hoffman's untimely death may well be that simplistic views of recovery and abstinence-only treatments leave addicts vulnerable to relapse, and increase the risk of death.
Heroin has become much cheaper in recent years as the supply in the United States has grown, according to the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York, and individuals with histories of drug abuse are particularly vulnerable to relapse amid a surge of cheap drugs.
In this context, social relationships with friends from their drug-use networks made participants more vulnerable to relapse to risky behaviors, leading to non-adherence and non-persistence of ART use.
Even the strongest among us are vulnerable to relapse.
Many recovering drug users don't accept that they remain vulnerable to relapse.
Withdrawal symptoms return before the next dose and patients become vulnerable to relapse.
