CONTINUUM OF CARE
This ASAM level is typically the first stop and focuses on medical stabilization and withdrawal.
What is Level 4.0 Detox?
About this percentage of people relapse within 90 days if they leave treatment with no aftercare plan.
What is 60–70%?
This recovery option provides substance-free housing with structure and accountability.
What is sober living?
True or False: “Aftercare is just more of the same treatment.”
What is False?
This early recovery period is considered the highest risk for relapse.
What is the first 30–90 days?
This level usually follows residential and involves 4–6 hours of treatment most days of the week.
What is PHP (Level 2.5)?
Staying connected to treatment or aftercare for this long increases sobriety success by about 65%.
What is 90 days or more?
AA and NA fall under this recovery model.
What are 12-step programs?
True or False: Meetings alone provide the same success rates as PHP or IOP.
What is False?
One major benefit of PHP and IOP is that they allow you to practice recovery skills while doing this.
What is real life (work, family, stress)?
This ASAM level allows people to work or go to school while still attending treatment several days a week.
What is IOP (Level 2.1)?
PHP and IOP reduce relapse risk by approximately this amount.
What is 40–60%?
This recovery program is faith-based and commonly offered in churches.
What is Celebrate Recovery?
This myth says: “I know what to do now, so I don’t need structure.”
What is the belief that motivation alone prevents relapse?
This is one reason sober living can be safer than returning home right away.
What is reduced exposure to triggers?
This level of care often includes sober living or halfway housing with less clinical intensity.
What is Level 3.1 Low-Intensity Residential?
Relapse rates drop from around 65% to this number when continuity of care is maintained.
What is about 30%?
This mindfulness-based recovery program focuses on meditation and Buddhist principles.
What is Dharma Recovery (or Refuge Recovery)?
This fact explains why step-down care works better than stopping treatment suddenly.
What is reduced overwhelm and increased accountability?
This term describes recovery plans that are customized instead of one-size-fits-all.
What is individualized care?
This concept describes moving gradually from higher to lower levels of care instead of stopping treatment abruptly.
What is step-down care / continuity of care?
People in sober living are this many times more likely to stay sober and employed at one year.
What is twice as likely (2×)?
This recovery model uses cognitive-behavioral tools and is not spiritually based.
What is SMART Recovery?
This is the name for going from full structure straight home with no support.
What is the cliff effect?
This question should guide every aftercare decision:
What gives me the best chance to stay sober after discharge?